Took an iPhone 5, and turned off WiFi and Bluetooth. Then used Settings, General, Cellular, to toggle "true 4G" LTE on and off. Did a speed test on LTE at 37.00Mbps down and 7.29Mbps up, 5 bars of signal: www.speedtest.net/iphone/426373483.png Did a second speed test on 3G at 1.75Mbps…
Interested in reading more about setting up something similar in your home, say during an extended cable Internet outage? Such wiring scenarios are particularly handy if you wish to leave your network and all gizmos as-they-were, making riding out an outage far easier on everybody. Perhaps you have …
It began with a sketch after a storm in 2011: Hopefully this Visio version is a bit easier to interpret: It all started at 11am today, with me noticing all my home's devices had gone offline. No clouds available. Without the usual green blinky lights on my DOCSIS 3 cablemodem: …
My home's internet has been quite stable and fast for many months now: TinkerTry.com/cisco-e4200-router-docis3-0-motorola-sb6120-surfboard-extreme-fast-stable-internet-household This streak was recently disrupted by a new addition to the family's home network, an Apple TV. Unlikely to cause…
I "deployed" two Ooma Telo VOIP devices in my home late last year, and went into "production" immediately. I left Vonage after 7 years because their prices kept creeping up, and I had some technical issues that recently that pushed me to make the switch. My total costs went from…
Getting your VOIP tuned up for multiple devices that need a priority boost can be tricky. My understanding is imperfect, but it all works reliably for months now, and the above diagram helps lay out the configuration I'm using. Take my family's gZilla gaming system, for example. It often must…
First, the router. Cisco-Linksys E4200 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router User Manual The model that Google seems to have chosen today, for their newly-announced "Google Screenwise Data Collector" is the Cisco-Linksys E4200, available for $154.45 USD on Amazon, and about the same at newegg.com.…
I was going to write an article about the future of personal cloud storage. Turns out, somebody I know has already expressed much of what I was going to say, in a much more compelling way. Here it is, enjoy! thinkertry.com/2012/01/09/thinking-about-a-local-personal-icloud See also: Hamachi VPN free…
This is a look at the quick/informal network speed testing I did tonight, but the methods are broadly applicable to your own testing. In the video, you'll follow along as I try to decide whether I use one of my two ASRock Z68 motherboard's Realtek 8168 Gigabit ports for my ESXi service console, or …
Imagine you're on a Verizon MiFi connection in an airport. Wouldn't you like to get to your home's network, with your laptop automatically being granted a "local" ip address by your home's router? This also means everything "just works," just as if you were actually at home,…
I now have two fresh Windows systems on totally isolated internet connections, so within a week, I can finally take the time to record a new video of the complete process of how EXACTLY you configure the free, LogMeIn Hamachi VPN solution for for remote backups. Ideally, you do your full system …
Great article here: Stop the Cap! Got my copy of that Cox warning letter today. It appears I'll know what happens next very soon, as you can see from my current usage meter tonight, Sep 20 2011: myaccount.cox.net/internettools/datausage/usage.cox This slippery slope of nagging, which could lead t…
See updates I've made to my original post here: https://tinkertry.com/mifi Here's how it looked (I used the Windows binary)
I was a road warrior for years (as many as 100 hotel nights per year), tethering to a Windows Phone based device in 2004, which I remember having to use the reset pin on frequently, and it liked to overheat and reboot spontaneously when used for data. More recently, my travel kit included USB …
I've had a single instance of a purple screen of death on the ASRock Z68 Extreme4, looks like the Broadcom is the likely cause Broadcom related PSOD. The ASRock Z68 Gen3 I've moved to uses Realtek instead, no PSODs seen so far. 2011-07-19 News Flash #2 ASRock "Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Ge…
I still need to write up something about the exact firmware levels and configurations that I've found optimal. Meanwhile, here's a list of what I use. 1) DOCIS 3.0 Cablemodem Product Overview Instruction Manual And finally, here's what the blinky lights mean, good to print and keep near modem. …
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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