Category: NetworkIng
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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. …
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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,…
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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 ->…
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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 ->…
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Network Troubleshooting: Wireless N connecting at 54Mb/s
This one came up today with a customer who was extending her Wireless N home wifi network with a wireless access point. The access point was reporting a Wireless N connection at a speed of 54Mb/s rather than 150 or 300Mb/s, and transfer speeds for anything connected to the access point were only 2-3MB/s…
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Intel X520-T2 Visual Overview
There’s not a great deal to say about these cards apart from that they allow you some crazy network speeds, if you have the disk speed to keep up. They can certainly alleviate network bottlenecks if gigabit is holding you back! This particular card has a fan to keep the chipset cool; it’s not going…
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Just arrived: Intel Dual-10-Gigabit Network Cards
We got our first Intel X520-T2 10Gbe cards in this week; benchmarks and a review won’t be available for a couple of weeks yet but we’re expecting big things… Stay tuned for more!
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How to reset a ProCurve 2510-24g to default settings
Here’s one someone asked me today – it’s reasonably straight-forward, though not necessarily obvious: Press in both the Clear and Reset buttons (tiny buttons on the left edge) Release the Reset button after the port lights come on (~2 seconds) When the Self-Test LED starts flashing (to the left of the Clear and Reset…
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Creating a static IP in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris
If you’re running an OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris fileserver chances are you’ll need a static IP so that you’ll always know where to find it on the network. There is more than one way of doing this but by far the easiest is using NWAM, or network auto magic. Do the following (the # at the beginning…