WebReviewWhat this site is
WebReviewStar reviews practical technology — the networking hardware people actually buy, the hosting their site runs on, the mail system that decides whether their email arrives, and the software in between. Every review starts with who the thing is not for, because that is the part the specification sheet never tells you.
The premise is simple. Most reviews are either a rewritten datasheet or a long apology for a product nobody needed. This one tries to translate: a port speed of 100 Mbps means every wired device tops out near 94 Mbps, no matter what the Wi-Fi radio claims. A 5 dBi antenna is +3 dB over a 2 dBi one, which indoors is roughly twenty percent more distance — not double, and certainly not the four hundred feet on the box.
How the reviews are made
Honestly: from the datasheet, not from a lab. I read the manufacturer's specification, the support pages, the retail listing and what owners report, and then write the part that matters — which numbers constrain you and which are decoration.
Every review carries a Basis line near the top saying what it was built on. Where a product has not been handled, it says so. Where a manufacturer's claim does not survive the physics, it says that too. And every claim that could be checked links to the page it came from, listed under Sources at the end.
What you will not find here
- Prices. They change, and a stale price is worse than none. Links go to the retailer for the live figure.
- Star ratings scraped from a shop. Those belong to the retailer and are theirs to display.
- Claims of hands-on testing for products that were never in the same room as me.
- Paid placements. Commission funds the site; it does not buy a score.