Manage bandwidth to prevent bottlenecks How to allocate broadband bandwidth so that key users are protected, and always have a guaranteed minimum amount of data. QUESTION My son is always complaining about lag in his gaming. He’s one of three (occasionally five when my daughters are home) users of our available bandwidth. He wants to know if it’s possible to allocate bandwidth in such a way that he’s ‘guaranteed’ some amount of it so that, no matter what any other user in the house is doing, his bandwidth doesn’t suffer....

Toshiba CB30-102 review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The usual caveat of ‘Chromebooks aren’t for everyone’ of course applies, but the Toshiba CB30 is a very useable and capable laptop for anyone who spends the majority of their computing time online using Google services. The increased screen size is a definite bonus over 11.6in models, even if it isn’t a high-quality display, while the plastic Construction keeps the weight to a portable 1....

Broken Age review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Extremely pretty, thematically ingenious and challenges narrative expectations, but the puzzles and jokes feel so lightweight – Broken Age’s first act isn’t the great adventure game comeback we’d been hoping for. Depending on how you look at it, Broken Age is either the vanguard of the Kickstarter era or a much-delayed return to unfinished business. It began life as a pledge by one of the main brains behind classic LucasArts point and click adventures such as Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle to revisit a genre he’d left behind....

Epson EH-TW490 review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict There’s no doubt that gaming on a really big screen is a fabulously engaging experience, and Epson’s EH-TW490 seems to have found a sweet spot in terms of price and performance which could encourage more to take up the sport. From this gaming perspective, the lack of a decent black level on this projector isn’t quite the crippling problem it might have been for movie fans....

Intel’s new Xeon server chip pushes Itanium closer to end The end-of-life writing is on the wall for Intel’s high-end Itanium chip, with the launch this week of the high-performance usurper, the chip maker’s 15-core Xeon E7 v2 chip. Intel’s Itanium is found mostly in Hewlett-Packard servers running the HP-UX, OpenVMS or Linux operating systems. But the Xeon E7 v2 chip, which is based on the x86 instruction set architecture, is slowly encroaching on the market occupied by Itanium, with Intel positioning it as a high-performance alternative that can run Windows and Linux....