Pages Tagged “Network”
Tech Tips
- Forgetting Out-of-Range WiFi Networks on a Samsung Galaxy Phone (Obsolete) The tedious solution: Rename your own hotspot, remove it from the phone, then rename it back.
- Vizio E422VA: Connecting that Internet-Connected TV to Wi-Fi Update the firmware over wired ethernet first, and use a WPA password without spaces.
Blog Posts
- CDN Breakdown=Bad. Best Buy Mobile Site=Good
One minor rant, and one success story, sort of connected. The rant: My internet connection is acting kind of flaky tonight. Actually, the connection is fine, but it isn’t talking to some content delivery network(s). All the small-time websites load perfectly, but a lot of the larger ones either aren’t loading at all or are […]
- Wingnet
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of disks on the freeway. Or a pigeon with a datacard. [A] company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a “data card” strapped to its leg from one of […]
- Tertiary Slashdotting
Today I noticed a spike in traffic coming from a post on Spread Firefox where I had made a comment. Not a ton of traffic, just ~15 hits from the same page on the same day, but that’s unusual for traffic from SFX posts—especially old ones. I checked to see if it had climbed into […]
- %@$* Networked File Systems!
You’d think with the number of years we’ve been sharing files across networks we’d be able to do it somewhat reliably. Windows: Try to connect to a computer that’s down or misconfigured, and sit for at least 30 seconds, unable to use an explorer window, click on your desktop, or, if you’re really unlucky, use […]
- Internet Security Perspectives
When I worked at a computer lab in college, the main security focus was preventing lab visitors from screwing around too much with the computers. We just ran Windows NT and locked it down as hard as possible. The worst network-based threat I remember facing was WinNuke, and that was just as likely to be […]
- Aye, there’s the hub!
A few weeks ago I noticed that our network hub was getting disturbingly hot, so I started turning off the power strip when we weren’t home. After returning from San Diego, the first time we turned the computers back on, the hub started buzzing. However, it stopped after a few seconds. So I should have […]