Published May 5, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Somewhere between the power jack and Ethernet ports on your router lies a lonely USB port or two. Most of the time, these sit dormant, and remain unused for the lifespan of the router, and most people assume it's for firmware updates via a USB stick, or maybe just for powering a small accessory.…