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For over the last 30 years, the Internet ran on a suite of protocols, the principal one known as the Internet Protocol version 4, or IPv4. You’ve likely heard of it, and maybe also how IPv4 addresses are scarce, and that ...
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I recently shared about my interest in building a standalone pfSense box. Well, I’ve been planning for that, the parts have arrived, and I’m currently putting together the box. I’ll share about the build over a ...
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I’ve been mulling for some time about the option of building a standalone pfSense box. My current pfSense runs as a virtual instance inside an Ubuntu host. This interest was renewed again recently when, unfortunately, my ...
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This is the second generation of Netgear’s R6300 wireless router. Netizens have come up with the R6300v1 and R6300v2 designations to differentiate between the two models because, unfortunately, Netgear did not update the ...
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I was recently struggling with my home fibre broadband connection when, as it turned out, it was something I had figured out before, but I had forgotten all about it. So to save myself the hassle in case I need to go through that ...
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Today has been a bad “IT maintenance” day at home. There were a few things I’ve been meaning to do for some time. But knowing there’s always the risk of something going wrong, I’ve been putting it ...
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In a nutshell, the My Net N900 Central from Western Digital is a dual-band wireless Internet router with internal storage which allows it to double up as a media server. If you’re hoping to get some sort of network storage ...
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Today’s post is about my pfSense installation. It’s not the usual pfSense setup. First of all, instead of running in a standalone PC or some sort of embedded computer, my pfSense runs in a virtual machine. Then, it ...
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For a long time I had been planning to capitalise on the free cable broadband, albeit a slow one that barely qualifies as broadband speed these days, to provide a failover uplink for my home network. My primary network access ...
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I bought the Cisco Linksys E3200 High Performance Dual-Band N Router recently, and it now serves as the primary wireless access point for my wireless network. Like its many other E-series siblings, the E3200 has a minimalist yet ...
