Thanks to Tony’s Kansas City for the link this morning. Tony noted that “Security dude reminds us that Google Fiber could kill the software industry.” That’s an interesting spin. I do think it will affect the software industry–but so long as Kansas City stays at the forefront and the rest of the country is content [...]
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Welcome, Tony’s Kansas City readers
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 24, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/welcome-tonys-kansas-city-readers/
Kansas City and Google Fiber
I get a few questions about Google Fiber, because I have Kansas City connections, and I work in computers. People who’ve known me long enough know that I upgraded to first-generation DSL about 30 minutes after it became available at the apartment complex I lived in at the time. The question then was the same [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 23, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/kansas-city-and-google-fiber/
An update on the shortcut to wiring a house with Ethernet
Last week, I presented a shortcut for wiring a house with Ethernet using cheap keystone couplers. I’m happy to say I’ve done it twice now, and it all works, but I wanted to follow up and share a little more experience now that I’ve wired about a dozen ports this way.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 27, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/12/an-update-on-the-shortcut-to-wiring-a-house-with-ethernet/
A shortcut for wiring your house with Ethernet
As convenient as wireless is, wireless will never match the security, speed, and reliability of wired Ethernet. I ran some wired Ethernet jacks in mid-2009 and have no regrets, but on my last trip to Lowe’s, I spied a nifty shortcut for wiring: an Ethernet coupler that plugs into a standard keystone jack. They were [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 16, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/12/a-shortcut-for-wiring-your-house-with-ethernet/
How to make a DMZ with two routers
I’ve alluded in the past to making a DMZ out of two routers, but I’ve never gone into depth about how and necessarily why to do it. If your ISP gave you a combination modem/switch/access point/router and it only supports 100 megabit wired and 54-megabit (802.11g) wireless and you want to upgrade to gigabit wired/150-meg [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 21, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/11/how-to-make-a-dmz-with-two-routers/
Approaches for home network storage
I put together a plan to update my home computer setup over the course of the next 12-18 months. You don’t want to know what I’m using as my primary desktop right now. You just don’t. One of the things on my to-do list is centralized storage. As the kids get older, I’m pretty sure [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 22, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/07/approaches-for-home-network-storage/
If you’ve been delaying upgrading your network, keep delaying
If you’ve been procrastinating about deploying 450-megabit (802.11n) wi-fi to your house, I have a reason for you to procrastinate a while longer: Gigabit wireless (802.11ac). It’s only about twice as fast as its predecessor, which pales next to the 8x improvement 802.11n provided over 802.11g, but if you’re wanting to stream HD media through [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 31, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/05/if-youve-been-delaying-upgrading-your-network-keep-delaying/
Flaky networking? Suspect cheap NICs
It was 1998. I was getting ready to network my two PCs, so I asked my friendly neighborhood networking professional what to buy. He didn’t hesitate. “Intel or 3Com,” he said. “Cheap NICs will talk, but they’ll start acting flaky after a while, dropping packets in the middle of transfers, stuff like that.” I couldn’t [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 3, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/04/flaky-networking-suspect-cheap-nics/
Wiring your house without tearing into walls
Tearing into existing walls to thread CAT5 through them isn’t a chore that I think anyone relishes. It’s not too bad if you have an unfinished basement and can do everything in interior walls, but the further you deviate from that, the worse the job gets. One of my computers sits where it is solely [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 15, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/02/wiring-your-house-without-tearing-into-walls/
Review: Insignia NS20EM50A13 monitor
My 15-inch Dell LCD died this weekend. Its date of manufacture was October 2001, so I can’t complain. I bought it used a number of years ago and paid a pittance for it. It had been acting up for more than a year, and at least it had the decency to wait until a potential [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/12/review-insignia-ns20em50a13-monitor/