Last weekend, I cut off my internet access, although I left the router powered on for a local network. The goal was to test how my smart home devices behaved without their cloud connection. The test ...

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Let’s address the two-dozen little elephants in the room: Swapping all of my smart home devices to a new Wi-Fi network should not be as annoying as it is. I recently switched to a new router, which ...