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Articles by Dmitrijs Krivulins

How to Open a Door Without a Key: Smart Locks, Keypads and Access Readers for Home and Business

Mechanical keys are simple until access has to be shared, limited, changed or revoked. Keyless door access is not one product category. A smart lock can make an existing door easier to manage. A keypad can let people enter without a phone. A bridge can add remote control. An access control reader can become part of a wider business access system with cards, mobile credentials, logs, hubs and electric locks. This article explains where Tedee smart locks make sense, where Ubiquiti UniFi Access is a better fit, and what should be checked before choosing a solution.

Why Network Racks Become Hard to Maintain — and How Color-Coded Patch Cables Keep Installations Clean and Readable

In a network rack, visible clutter often comes from identical patch cables with unclear paths and no visual logic. This makes troubleshooting slow, documentation confusing, and changes risky.
Broadbe Slim Patch Cables are designed to solve this with multiple colors, compact 2.5–4mm design, short rack-friendly lengths, 5G and 10G options, and bendable RJ45 connectors for tight spaces.
Color-coded cables help technicians immediately distinguish uplinks, access points, cameras, workstations, and management lines. Combined with organized lengths and professional packaging, they turn a dense cable bundle into a readable, serviceable installation.
This guide explains why patch cable design matters, how to plan color schemes, what makes Broadbe cables practical, and where they deliver the most value for offices, installers, and system integrators.

Why Wi-Fi Is Slow Even with a Good Internet Plan — and How MikroTik hAP ax3 Helps Stabilize Your Network

Sometimes the situation looks illogical: the internet plan is good, wired speed is fine, yet Wi‑Fi problems still appear. Video loads inconsistently, pages open with delay, video calls lose quality, and in a farther room the network is already noticeably weaker.

In such cases, the cause is often not the internet connection itself, but the internal wireless network. Real Wi‑Fi speed depends not only on the plan, but also on the router standard, interference level, number of clients, channel width, coverage quality, and how well the device itself handles load.

Why 5G Shows Full Signal but Speed Is Unstable — and How MikroTik ATL 5G R16 Helps Maximize Performance

A phone shows full signal strength. The status icon confirms a connection. Yet in the evening, speed drops and latency rises.
In many cases the bottleneck is not only base-station load. The root cause is rarely a single factor. Real throughput depends on signal quality (SINR/RSRQ), interference, band selection, and the capabilities of the device.

Signal bars mostly reflect received power, so they can look strong even when the channel conditions are poor.
Below is a practical breakdown of the key factors and a simple RouterOS checklist to verify the connection, as well as what ATL 5G R16 changes compared to a typical indoor router.