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May/11

WiTopia VPN Service Review

Filed Under Networking, Security at 25th May 2011 0:01 by

I have always wanted to get a VPN server running at home so that I can tunnel back into the network remotely and also to protect myself on public hot spots. The former was more complicated than I thought and … Continue reading →

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Sep/10

Netgear WNDR3700 Thoughts

Filed Under Networking at 15th September 2010 12:10 by

I bought a Netgear WNDR3700 to replace the shoddy DLink DIR-615 that came with our cable service and it has holding up very good. I was even approached on Twitter from a DLink representative but he was unable to solve … Continue reading →

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Mar/10

Megabit To Gigabit Network

Filed Under Networking at 26th March 2010 7:50 by

Overview I have finally made the switch to Gigabit networking! Thanks to an Amazon deal I bought some switches to kit my network out. Because I do move large files about such as video files as well as streaming from … Continue reading →

16

Nov/09

Sync Mozilla Thunderbird Using Dropbox

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Software, Windows at 16th November 2009 20:28 by

Overview I have had a Dropbox account for a while now but never really used it till now. There have been really good tricks and uses to Dropbox posted on the Internet and I finally decided to try my hands … Continue reading →

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Mar/09

Netgear DG834N On O2 Broadband

Filed Under Networking at 20th March 2009 0:01 by

I have finally replaced the O2 Thompson router with a Netgear DG834N which was back in Eastbourne before. The setup was fairly easy. I used the following settings: Connectivity Mode : RFC1483 Bridged Protocol Encapsulation : ETHoA or IPoATM (IP … Continue reading →

12

Jan/09

Free VPN For The iPhone

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Networking, Security at 12th January 2009 0:01 by

Whilst I was away I was aware of the dangers of using open and free access points. Even using an unfamiliar network say at your friend or family’s house. I discovered HotSpotShield which provides a free VPN service for the … Continue reading →

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Dec/08

Enabling Remote Access To MySQL

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Software at 28th December 2008 16:29 by

I recently set up a virtual machine with Linux running on it to test stuff out. I ran into the issue which I have solved many times when I had installed my server at home which has a LAMP set … Continue reading →

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Dec/08

Great Wall Of UK

Filed Under Networking, News at 7th December 2008 17:47 by

It looks like I signed up to the wrong ISP. I do not agree at all with what they are doing but yet to have faced the issue of the ISP wide proxy (fingers crossed it won’t happen). An article … Continue reading →