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Category Archives: Wireless
Wireless Dropping? Change your Scan Valid Interval
Is your Wireless dropping? Update your driver of course and then try changing your Scan Valid Interval. By default, most wireless cards are set to 60. This is the amount of time before your wireless ‘looks’ for other … Continue reading
Posted in Home Networking, Networking, Technology, Wireless
Tagged Network Troubleshooting, Wireless, wireless troubleshooting
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Review – GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) Mini Smart Router
Do you travel? Want extra protection of taking a router with a firewall with you when you are on the road? Want the flexibility of OpenWRT? The GL iNet GL-MT300N-V2 mini smart router is loaded with a ton of features. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Hardware, Internet, Mobile Computing, network, Networking, Technology, Wireless
Tagged GL-iNet routers, openwrt, portable router, router review, Routers, Wireless
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AlphiMAX PTP Estimator provides an excellent way to align your wireless antennas
It is important to perform a wi-fi survey so that you can determine not only the perfect place to locate your access point or bridge but to gain an understanding of the channel co-existence challenge you may face. With wireless … Continue reading
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Atheros Wireless Drivers
Need an update and stable version of your Atheros Wireless Drivers? Often the wireless drivers found at, https://www.atheros-drivers.com/atheros-network-drivers.html , are more stable than the manufacturer.
Posted in Technology, Wireless
Tagged Atheros drivers, Windows Wireless Networking, Wireless
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GeGeek Toolkit – An interview with Jason
Years ago we found GeGeek.com (Credit goes to Rick over at What’s on My PC) and realized that the website and Toolkit was an unreal resource and treasure for young IT Professionals. Recently we struck a conversation with Jason of GeGeek … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Education, Free Software, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Security, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged GeGeek, GEGeek Toolkit, Software, Whats On My PC
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IO Graphs in Wireshark-TCP Spurious Retransmission events
TCP Spurious Retransmissions may be seen from time to time when using Wireshark. How do you see them? Capture some data with Wireshark on your workstation or server. Click on Statistics, IO Graphs and click throughout the graph on the … Continue reading
Why hiding your SSID is not secure.
Have you heard that hiding your SSID is a good idea? Think again. With BackBox or Kali (in fact in form of Linux), you can run sudo airodump-ng phy1.mon at a terminal (replace phy1.mon with your network card number) – onboard … Continue reading
Wi-Fi networks will emerge in 2018 as part of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3™
New Wi-Fi® security features available in 2018 Las Vegas, NV – January 8, 2018 – Wi-Fi Alliance® …Read more
Posted in Computer Security, Technology, Wireless
Tagged Wireless, wireless security, WPA3
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Wireless Dropping? Change your Scan Valid Interval
Is your Wireless dropping? Update your driver of course and then try changing your Scan Valid Interval. By default, most wireless cards are set to 60. This is the amount of time before your wireless ‘looks’ for other … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Wireless
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Distracted by the web? Snooze your Wi-Fi
Is the internet and all of the alerts you are getting from social media and email distracting you? Hit the snooze on your Wi-Fi – How? Click your wi-fi/internet icon by the sound and time Next Click the Wi-Fi button … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Wireless
Tagged computer hardware, Wi-Fi, Windows, Windows 10
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TightVNC for Android – Control your computers from a mobile device.
Need to manage your computers or servers while on the go? Here’s one thing you can do. Go to the Google Play Store and download TightVNC Viewer. You will have to load TightVNC Server on the computers you want to … Continue reading
How to get OpenWRT on a Rosewill RNX-N150RT Router? Flash it to DD-WRT then flash to a TP-Link TL-WR741N. Finish with OpenWRT or Gargoyle and out perform may AC routers.
With a Rosewill RNX-N150RT router, you can flash this simple home router to OpenWRT. While there are a few hoops to jump through, the process is easy. First flash the Rosewill to DD-WRT by downloading the firmware here. Next flash … Continue reading
Posted in network, Networking, Technology, Wireless
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HDD drive slow? It could be your network card…
Another example of what we thought was a failing HDD, turned out to be a corrupt… Winsock? A non-profit organization called us today and after running diagnostics on the HDD, turns out the computer lock ups and experienced freezing along … Continue reading
Posted in Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged HDD problems, HDD Troubleshooting, Network Troubleshooting, Networking problems
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Networking and Internet problems? Try this
Are you having problems with networking or using the internet? Open a command prompt as an administrator. Run the following commands (or copy and paste into the cmd prompt) – route -f ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew arp -d nbtstat -R … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged internet troubleshooting, network, Network Troubleshooting
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Speed up your network by disabling the HomeGroup
While we’ve discussed speeding up SQL connections by disabling LLMNR, there’s another way to speed up your network. If you are not using the HomeGroup feature, a quick way to speed up your network is to disable the services for … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Wireless
Tagged Network Performance, network speed, networking
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Cyber Summit – Memphis, TN June 2017
The Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security, The Tennessee Fusion Center and Central Service Association are proud to once again bring together individuals from education, government and industry to share in the latest information, strategies, best practices and innovative solutions … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Business, Computer Security, Education, Hacking, help desk, Information Technology, internet security;, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Mobile Computing, Networking, ransomware, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Security, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged computer security, cyber crime, cyber summit, cybercrime, Hacking, Memphis, Tennessee
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One in four wireless networks are still unsecure
Annually our class studies wireless technology and its implementation into homes and industry. Surveys are conducted to analyze security used, transmit power and geographic location of wireless technology. According to Wigle.net, Security has improved over past years. Home users … Continue reading
Change network adapter priorities in Windows 10 – PowerShell
First thing – disable network adapters you don’t use If you use Ethernet, disable everything but flow control Disable LLMNR Adjust NTLM Perform test with Totusoft’s network speed test Next, avoid latency of your network card by adjusting the network … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged computer hardware, microsoft network, Microsoft Networking, microsoft windows, network, networking, PowerShell, Windows 10, wireless networking
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NetSpot Review – Wi-Fi survey app for Windows
In this three part series we review NetSpot a Wi-Fi survey app for Mac and Windows. In this part, we look at the Microsoft Windows version of NetSpot. NetSpot performs accurate Wi-Fi surveys that allows you to use a map … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Computers, Free Software, help desk, Industry, Information Technology, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Wireless
Tagged NetSpot, networking, Wireless, Wireless Maps, Wireless Networks, Wireless surveys, wireless troubleshooting
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OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)- Using on your home network
OWASP -The Open Web Application Security Project is an online community which creates freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. (Wikipedia) If you have wanted to learn how to test your network and … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Security, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Education, Free Software, Hacking, higher ed, higher education, Information Technology, internet security;, IoT, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Networking, Technology, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Security, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged computer security, Hacking, IoT Security, Network Security, OWASP, OWASP ZAP, Windows 10, Windows Security
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