Streamline your Smart Home with Managed WiFi from DFN

Smart homes can become complicated fast. This guide explains how DFN’s Managed WiFi helps organize your devices, improve security, reduce network issues, and keep your smart home running smoothly. Smart lights, talking speakers, and appliances that can remind you what you’re out of—sometimes it feels like we’re living in a Jetsons episode. But the more […]

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What are Cookies? A Guide to the Not-So-Delicious Internet Trackers

If you’ve ever visited a website and seen an “Accept Cookies” pop-up, you may have wondered what exactly you’re agreeing to. Internet cookies aren’t the kind you bake—but they do make your online experience smoother, more personalized, and easier to navigate. This guide breaks down what cookies are, how they work, why websites use them, […]

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Best Apps for Rural Living: Tools for Home, Work, and Everyday Life

These are the best apps for rural living, including home management, property tools, small business essentials, and everyday productivity—plus how DFN fiber helps them work better. Around here, we take pride in doing things ourselves. Oregon living has always meant being resourceful, whether it’s fixing a fence, running a business, or keeping the family on […]

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Backing Up Your Digital Life

Ever lost a file, photo, or document you thought was safe? Whether your computer crashes, your phone breaks, or you accidentally delete a folder, data loss happens more often than you think. In this guide, DFN shares how to back up your digital life — with easy, practical steps to protect your photos, files, and […]

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