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How to set up and optimize an Asus RT-AC66U

Dave Farquhar Servers and Networking December 5, 2016March 7, 2018AES, asus, malware, NVRAM, SSH, Universal Plug and Play, vulnerability, WAN, wi-fi

Consumer routers drive security professionals like me crazy. I’m happy to say I finally found a router that doesn’t drive me nuts. I want you to buy an Asus RT-AC66U. I’m going to tell you why, and I’m going to tell you how to configure it. Here’s how to set up an Asus RT-AC66U and how to optimize an Asus RT-AC66U.

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.

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Add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10

Dave Farquhar Windows January 27, 2015November 16, 2021Click Finish, Click Next, hp, jetdirect card, laserjet, optimizing windows, Technical Preview, Universal Plug and Play, Windows 10

Sometimes you have to manually add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10. For example, I have an older HP Laserjet 4100 with a Jetdirect network card in it that I use to print from all of my PCs over my local area network (LAN). Getting Windows 10 to print to it isn’t difficult but it’s hardly intuitive.

If you have your network printer already set up but just need to change its IP address, I covered that here. If you want to share a locally attached printer with other computers on your network, you can do that too.

Printing straight to the TCP/IP address of the printer is convenient. It means you don’t have to have another computer powered up when you want to print.

Dave Farquhar

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Upgrading a D-Link DIR-615 to DD-WRT

Dave Farquhar DD-WRT, Hardware, security, Servers and Networking December 2, 2013January 31, 2022AES, CGI, code execution, d-link, dd wrt, DDWRT, firefox, Micro Center, Universal Plug and Play

Last year I bought my mother in law a D-Link router, an oddball DIR-615 revision E1 that was only sold at a few stores. It was supposed to be a Fry’s exclusive, but I bought hers at Micro Center. It worked for a while, then gave her trouble, so this year I was working with it again, and when I was setting it up, I noticed it had some security vulnerabilities–remote code execution, UPnP vulnerabilities, and who knows what else. So that got me some practice upgrading a D-Link DIR-615 to DD-WRT.

DD-WRT’s track record and attitude towards security research could be better, but I’d rather trust my mother in law to DD-WRT’s B+ security than D-Link’s F.

Dave Farquhar

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