Our partner, Amped Wireless, has announced what they call the industry’s most powerful dual band wi-fi repeater. Capable of extending ranges up to 10,000 square foot. The new long-range, high power Wireless-N 600mW GIgabit Dual Band Wi-Fi Repeater is available now and can extend your network up to a quarter of an acre. “Building materials and other electronic devices can …
SonicWALL announces End of Support Notification for SonicPoint G Access Points
The following information comes courtesy of SonicWALL’s Global Support Services: Announcement SonicPoint G End of Support Notification Affected Products SonicWALL SonicPoint wireless access points SonicPoint G Announcement Summary Effective March 1, 2012, SonicWALL will transition the SonicPoint G from Limited Retirement Mode to End of Support. Once these products transition to End of Support they will no longer be …
Who sends a letter to the RIAA informing them of their pirating activities?
I’ve written a number of blog posts about the RIAA, and how people have been wrongfully accused of stealing (pirating) by the RIAA, and law suits threatened. Well, it appears, that someone at the RIAA has been doing a little illegal downloading of their own, though the RIAA claims it was not them. Here’s more information: http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-through-out-ip-addresses-111221/ So secure those …
Considering Storage, IP Surveillance, Security, Wireless or Switching for your business? Thought about D-Link?
Everyone is familiar with Cisco products, but not everyone may realize there are alternatives which can affect your bottom line drastically while providing an identical feature set and experience. D-Link is a leader in the field and their products can often times go head-to-head with Cisco. D-Link offers: Wireless network equipment, like access points, managed wireless switches for large scale …
Did you secure your Wi-Fi acess point yet?
Last week I was discussing RIAA letters to people who had supposedly downloaded music illegally and it turned out it was neighbors using their wifi connection. I wonder if anyone was paying attention? If you did not secure your wireless access point after that, then maybe THIS will encourage you to do so… A dispute with neighbors turned ugly back …
Ditch the WiFi and go with 3g or 4g broadband connectivity for your mobile devices
Those of you who are using a notebook computer or mobile device such as an iPad, iPhone, Android or Android tablet and connecting to those public free wifi access hotspots may want to just ditch the WiFi after what I heard about today… In spite of what I said about safe browsing from public wi-fi hotspots using a VPN a …
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Safe Browsing from Public Wi-Fi Hotspots is possible with a VPN
WSPA’s Amy Wood (@TVAmy) had a great segment on last night (2011-02-07) in which she had Doug Cone (@nullvariable) a local web/graphics “devsigner” discussing the dangers of using public Wi-Fi. You can find that story here. He demonstrated a tool which allows even the most novice of “hackers” to see a list of others who are using any given open …
Wireless Security – When using an open access point is a very bad idea
So you are a student and on a budget, and you decide that you don’t need to get your own internet connection since some stupid person in your complex has a very strong signal, and fortunately for you the connection is open! Sounds super? Well not so fast… How do you know that the access point you are connecting to …