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D-Link (DIR-825) vs Netgear (WNR3500L)

Note: “time flies”, other models, fixed problem, or new ones. But the requirements are still the same: reasonable price 2.4GHz N is a must, and 5GHz range will be a nice option 4 (four) bars of signal behind 2 walls Gigabyte local network connection if you have a few computers or any multimedia device connected [...]

Using magicJack (not about QoS)

When I receive a bill from my cable company (Comcast) a couple of months ago for HDTV, high speed Internet and the phone service… I decided that TV I could watch over Internet and there is only one thing I could live without is the high speed Internet. But the problem was I have needed [...]

Building Web server

[note] Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Apacher 2 MySQL 5 PHP 5 FTP server [/note]… in progress … This is not a complete manual HOW-TO and, of course, there are other solutions, packages, and software as well as the better or correct settings and modifications. But, it’s straight way to get a small “replica” of Linux VPS [...]

Using DDNS

I have never payed too much attention to this option until working on friend’s home network I decided to check all the settings of his wireless router. Of course, he does not need this feature, right now, but I decided to check my own router. This feature seems to be there for ages. I think, that’s from [...]

“This time will be different. Trust me” from TV Commercial

Computer is computer and nobody can guarantee it has the bug-free software installed. Windows 7  is not exception. Everything, of course, depends of the hardware configuration, I had this problem on Acer Extensa 5620Z laptop with Linksys (Cisco) PCMCIA dual-band wireless adapter. After installing recommended updates for wireless network adapter(s)… it disappeared from the list [...]