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Is the Linksys WRT54G obsolete?

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Is the Linksys WRT54G obsolete? Depending on how many devices you have and how fast your upstream connection is, it probably is. And it’s difficult, though not impossible, to secure. Remember, when the Linksys WRT54G came out way back in

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Fix MLB.tv loading please wait on Roku

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:00:19 +0000

It’s frustrating to watch baseball and get constant interruptions from black screens that say “loading, please wait.” Here are six ways to fix problems with MLB.tv loading please wait on Roku. Reboot A lot of Roku issues go away after you

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How DDoS attacks work

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Yesterday, half the Internet was broken. I knew something was wrong when I couldn’t get into Salesforce to check on a support ticket for my biggest customer. Another member of my team sent us a warning that a big DDoS attack

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Adjust DD-WRT TX power

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:00:07 +0000

I had a DD-WRT router that was dropping a lot of packets. I got a lot of errors and that caused poor playback in Netflix and especially MLB.tv. It wasn’t a bandwidth issue. My wireless network connection was just too noisy.

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Advantages of Windows 10

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:00:27 +0000

Now that Windows 10 is out, the questions I see most frequently are why someone should upgrade, or what benefits they get if they upgrade, or if there indeed is such thing as advantages to Windows 10. While I understand the skepticism, and

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Decrease your Roku resolution to save bandwidth

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:00:19 +0000

From time to time when I’m watching baseball on my Roku, I’ll get a lot of buffering and, in extreme cases, a message stating that I may have insufficient bandwidth. If you have the same problem, the best fix for

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How to size your Internet connection

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 04 May 2015 11:00:04 +0000

So I understand ISPs are upselling connection speeds saying it’ll make Netflix work better. That’s a nice theory. But if you’re already over 10 megabits, there’s a decent chance your connection speed won’t do much for Netflix at all. Here’s how

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Keep cordless phones from interfering with Wi-Fi

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00:39 +0000

Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and knights in shining armor fought them, people had landlines. And they plugged cordless phones into them. Everything was great. Then phones started using the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies. Wi-Fi came out

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Build the best, most secure wifi in your neighborhood

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:00:46 +0000

My neighbor asked me for advice on setting up wi-fi in his new house. I realized it’s been a while since I’ve written about wi-fi, and it’s never been cheaper or easier to blanket your house and yard with a good

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Here we go again. Net neutrality is not Obamacare either.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:00:21 +0000

To nobody’s particular surpise, yesterday president Barack Obama endorsed a form of net neutrality. And immediately, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came out swinging against it, calling it, “Obamacare for the Internet.” Sen. Cruz appears to have either failed to read,

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