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Check your cable or Internet bill: After the first year discounts, it's time to bargain
When sign-up discounts expire, customers are smart to renegotiate.
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Are Free VPNs Legit?
There are a ton of free VPNs out there promising no-cost invisibility on the Internet, but they're not without drawbacks.
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How Does a VPN Work?
Most people understand by now a VPN keeps your internet use more private. But how does it actually work? We've broken it down.
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Sysadmin survival guide
It's hard to predict how different sysadmins jobs will be in the coming years. But here are some guidelines gathered during a sysadmin career spanning more than three decades.
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Free Internet Hack: How to Connect to Free Wifi Networks from Far Away
In this article I will explain how to set up a wifi setup that can connect to an internet source far away. This works great on a boat (which I did in my case), in an RV, or even in a downtown apartment. If you have the password to a nearby wifi it will essentially transport that wifi and make it wherever you have this set up. You can get a wifi login to a local restaurant or cafe and then have that in your own home environment (if it is reachable). In my case I set this up on my boat and was able to get access to wifi in an office 2 miles away that I had the password to.
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Lessons for data center pros inspired by automotive engineering standards
You don't want your servers, network infrastructure, or mobile apps to crash because it could inconvenience end users? That's nothing: Automotive engineers don't want their products to crash because crashes kill people. Car designers and builders are helped by industry standards, and we can all learn from their best practices.
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Five ways to improve your Wi-Fi performance
Want to get the most from your Wi-Fi? Here's how to do it.
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The birth and rise of Ethernet: A history
Today, no company would consider using anything except Ethernet for its wired local-area network. But it wasn't always that way. Steven Vaughan-Nichols tracks the history of Ethernet, and its once-upon-a-time networking protocol competitors.
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How to build your own LTE network over Wi-Fi frequencies
An industry consortium called MulteFire wants to help you build your own LTE-like network that uses the Wi-Fi spectrum, with no need for carriers or providers.
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Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS)
Learn how the global DNS system makes it possible for us to assign memorable names to the worldwide network of machines we connect to every day.
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Are We Breaking The Internet?
A giant outage of Amazon Web Services and other recent accidents offer an opportunity to reflect on the perilous architecture of the web.
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802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks
The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.
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802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks
The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.
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With Qualcomm's new 802.11ax chips, the future of Wi-Fi is here
Your home Wi-Fi performance will soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for broadcasters (routers and access points) and the QCA6290 SoC for receivers (Wi-Fi devices). They belong to the first end-to-end commercial Wi-Fi portfolio to support the all-new 802.11ax standard.
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Mesh networking: Why it's coming to a home or office near you
Mesh networking has finally come to small businesses and offices. Here's why that matters.
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US-CERT: Stop using your remotely exploitable Netgear routers
A flaw in Netgear routers is 'trivial' to remotely exploit -- R7000, R8000 and R6400 -- maybe more. US-CERT advised discontinuing use unless Netgear issues a fix. There's a way to test if your router is vulnerable and an unofficial temporary fix.
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NTP: the rebirth of ailing, failing core network infrastructure
Network Time Protocol is how the computers you depend on know what time it is (this is critical to network operations, cryptography, and many other critical functions); NTP software was, until recently, stored in a proprietary format on a computer that no one had the password for (and which had not been updated in a decade), and maintained almost entirely by one person.
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Saying goodbye to AirPort as Apple closes its wireless router division
A new report has surfaced that Apple is getting rid of its division for wireless routers, signaling that AirPort is on its way out the door for good...
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You Should Uninstall Web of Trust Right Now
You should consider uninstalling WOT right now. Why? Because Web of Trust has been caught collecting and selling user data. Even worse, this data hasn't always been successfully anonymized.
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The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy
The rules require providers to ask your permission before sharing your data.
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