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Always-on Internet connectivity is so much taken for granted these days, everyone just assumes the network will just work, and so if it doesn’t, it gets very frustrating. Sadly, our wireless is breaking up again. Like the ...
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I’m getting a lot more confident with router firmware upgrades. It might seem a little strange to hear this from a network engineering person, but I’ve been quite apprehensive of upgrading my pfSense router and ...
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Network engineers seem to be most often totting around Windows lappies. The Mac, however, works quite well for these networking folks too. After my earlier post on Setting Up Your Mac For Programming, I thought this would be a ...
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I originally intended to write just a simple support note for NUS School of Computing (SoC) users, pertaining to the WebVPN service that we use. However, I realised this information is likely just as useful to any user of ...
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Over a year ago, I put Tomato, an alternative router firmware, on my Cisco Linksys E3200 wireless broadband router. Several new versions have been released since then, but I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading. I ...
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When we talk about enterprise wireless networks, we often downplay the role of the wireless access point. The thingy at home you call a wireless router is actually smarter than the wireless access points we use in an enterprise ...
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To most people, “radius” is something to do with circles. For network folks, RADIUS refers to Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. It is an authentication service for controlling user access to various network ...
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The Internet has gotten so big, it’s started to overflow. Yes, sir, the Internet is full. Would some of you kindly logoff so that others could use the Internet? Oh well, that’s not exactly what’s happening. But ...
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This is a really old network camera, but hey, it was just on sale for S$29. Yes, just S$29. It’s not the best spec network camera, but if you just need to keep an eye on what’s happening at home, or wherever you have ...
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Most people who buy wireless broadband routers will just use it as the manufacturer designed it to be, with whatever firmware the manufacturer put in there. Some adventurous folks, however, replace that firmware in their wireless ...
