Switched On Tech Design

Month: February 2013

  • Monitoring network usage on Ubuntu

    Monitoring network usage on Ubuntu

      If you want to see how much traffic is passing through your network port there’s a handy tool called vnstat which will tally the amount of data passing through. You can install it with:   sudo apt-get install vnstat   It will usually add the databases and network ports automatically like so:    …

  • Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite default login and password

      Oh, and as a follow-up to yesterday – the default login and password for a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite is:   ubnt ubnt   Hope that helps – I know I’m guilty of a quick google for the login rather than opening a manual!

  • Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite default IP address

      I know someone is going to ask me this in the future so I’m making this post now – the default IP address for the Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite is:   192.168.1.1   For those of us who use 10.1.1.x etc. you’ll have to put a computer onto the 192.168.1.x range temporarily to change…

  • TP-Link TL-WA701ND review

      Wireless access points can be really handy devices – they can solve a number of problems such as connecting a PC/device without a wireless card to the network, creating a network bridge or extending your network. This TP-link, at around $30, offers quite a bit of potential for not a lot of money.  …

  • Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite Review: Part 1

      The EdgeRouter Lite is Ubiquiti’s latest router with some pretty high-end features at an entry-level price. The tagline is “The world’s first sub-$100, one million-packets-per-second router” – US dollars, of course. It retails for around $140 Australian.     The first part of the review is going to focus on the actual unit itself,…

  • Setting up one browser remotely, one locally

      As a follow-up to the Firefox and Internet Explorer remote browsing articles we were asked whether you could set IE up for remote browsing and Firefox for local browsing. This certainly can be done – set up your tunnel in Internet Explorer then open up Firefox and go to:   Tools -> Options ->…

  • Using an SSH tunnel with Internet Explorer

      As a follow-up to the previous article on how to browse the web via an SSH tunnel in Firefox we’ve been asked to show how to do the same with Internet Explorer. The Putty set-up remains the same; once that’s complete, open Internet Explorer (we are using IE 9) and go to Tools ->…

  • MythTV backend DVB adapter error: ERROR_OPEN

      If you see the above error when you’re trying to set up your DVB tuner card one cause is that MythTV can’t get access to the tuner card. This can be because there’s another application installed which has access to it, e.g. something like TVHeadend. On XBMCBuntu you can uninstall TVHeadend by running the…

  • Browsing the web through a SSH tunnel with Firefox and Putty (Windows)

      If you have the ability to SSH into a remote machine you also have the ability to direct your web browser’s traffic through SSH to that machine. This can be quite handy for browsing the (remote) local network without opening a HTTP port on the firewall.   First, install Putty and Firefox. Putty can…