BOXYTECH
Set up your smart home the smart way — free calculators for Wi-Fi coverage, smart-home running costs, TV sizing, storage, internet speed, and battery life, plus plain-English guides to home networking, streaming, and the gadgets that run your house.
From working out what your always-on gadgets cost to run and how many mesh nodes it takes to kill the dead zones, to sizing a TV to the sofa, a drive to your library, and a broadband plan to the household, BoxyTech pairs free hands-on calculators with plain-English guides and an illustrated museum of consumer technology. Get the setup right before you buy.
Smart-Home & Consumer-Tech Calculators
Free tools for the numbers behind a connected home — running costs, Wi-Fi coverage, TV sizing, storage, internet speed, and battery life.
Smart-Home Power Cost Calculator
Turn a device's wattage, daily hours, and your electricity rate into what it costs to keep on — and add up the standby load of every always-on gadget in the house
Wi-Fi Coverage & Mesh Node Calculator
Enter your home's size, floors, and construction to see how many mesh nodes it takes to cover every room, and whether a single router will do the job
TV Size & Viewing Distance Calculator
Match a TV to your room both ways — a screen size for the ideal seat, or a seating distance for the size that fills your view, tuned for 4K or 1080p
Data Storage Needs Calculator
Add up photos, video, music, apps, and documents for a total in GB and TB, plus the drive, phone, or NAS size to buy with headroom so you don't run out
Internet Speed Needs Calculator
Count your simultaneous 4K and HD streams, video calls, gamers, and smart devices to get a recommended plan speed instead of overpaying for gigabit
Battery Life Estimator
Enter a battery's capacity, the current your device draws, and an efficiency factor to see runtime in hours and minutes, plus the energy it stores in watt-hours
Tech & Gadget Museum
Step into an illustrated museum of consumer technology — the home computers and smartphones that changed everyday life, the TVs, radios, and game consoles of the living room, the networking gear that connected it all, and the components inside, each in its own gallery. Get to know the history behind the gadgets you use every day.
Tour the museum →From the BoxyTech Journal
Fresh guides on smart-home gadgets and automation, home networking and Wi-Fi, streaming and TV setup, and buying and setting up everyday consumer electronics.
Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on smart-home tech, home networking, streaming and TV, and the everyday gadgets that run your house — everything you need to set things up with confidence.
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