Followup On My QoS / Traffic Shaping Question
Following up on the question I asked last week (Nov 9) about QoS/traffic shaping, specifically comparing a vlan vs IP range based strategy. My issue stems from the fact that I’ve added a number of new...
View ArticleTechWiseTV Episode #37: Redefining the Remote Office
After my last post about Cisco’s TechWise TV I was a little surprised to be contacted by someone from Cisco offering me a pre-release look at the new episode that is due out later today. It’s episode...
View ArticleAll Your Files Are Belong to Me! – HAL9000
From my Facebook page comes this comment from Gary Mark about our new NAS. Okay, so why do you need this Mike? Can’t you RAID a couple big disks into your desktop and run it like a server? You’d save...
View ArticleThe Day The Electrons Stood Still
It started out an uneventful day, the third day in an entire week that I expected to spend in my home office. That’s something of a rarity in recent times. I was enjoying it, catching up on matters...
View ArticlePower-Over-Ethernet Mythbusting
The .e4 blog has a good new post on power-over-ethernet, which I see as an often overlooked area of SOHO VoIP. It goes into some detail P.O.E. network switches, power management and mid-span P.O.E...
View ArticleVillage Telco Imagines A Phone Mesh
Open source software is a really wonderful idea. And if you like that then open source hardware should prove to be attractive as well. The folks at the Village Telco Project in South Africa have...
View ArticleSprint 3G Mifi @ SFO Aug 18
So here’s how the Sprint 3G service measures now that I’m away from my home office location. Note that my laptop clock is on CDT. It’s just before 6am west coast time. As you can see I tried tests...
View ArticleSprint 3G Mifi @ SFO Aug 19
I promise that after this week I won’t focus so much on the Mifi and this Sprint 3G service. From an early Wednesday morning perspective here’s what I’m seeing for performance. There’s quite a bit of...
View Articlemonowall Screencast Tutorials
Rarely do I profess as much devotion to a piece of software as I have for m0n0wall. I’m told that it’s one of the single most successful open source projects and it’s easy to see why. It’s been my...
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