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Jan/14

Asus AI Suite Constant FTP

Filed Under Networking at 20th January 2014 0:01 by

I recently have been hub’ing it out to see what traffic was going through the network and found a startling discovery. Currently it’s setup between the router and modem so it is capturing all traffic going to and from the … Continue reading →

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Feb/12

O2 Pay & Go Sim With Samsung Galaxy Tab

Filed Under Networking, Tablet at 14th February 2012 0:01 by

Overview Below are steps to setup a pay and go O2 sim card with the Samsung Galaxy Tab P7300. This should also work on the 10.1 tab with 3G. Prerequisites Pay and go sim card Mobile phone Activate Sim Skip … Continue reading →

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Jan/12

Pay & Go Sim For Tablets

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Networking at 14th January 2012 8:54 by

I was on a hunt for a regular sim card for a tablet and had different experiences with each shop: T-Mobile Store – Closet store on arrival. Staff was helpful in helping us and offered a regular pay and go … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

namebench – DNS Tester

Filed Under Networking at 8th November 2011 0:01 by

There’s a really good DNS benchmark tester called namebench. It’s free (beer and source) and runs on Windows and Mac OSX. The software tests the current DNS as well as popular DNS servers like OpenDNS and Google. It also has … Continue reading →

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Oct/11

DD-WRT On D-Link DIR-615

Filed Under Networking at 27th October 2011 0:01 by

I had a spare Netgear DG834N router lying around and thought about flashing it with a different firmware such as Tomato or xWRT but the router was not compatible with any 3rd part firmware. This lead me to replacing the … Continue reading →

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Sep/11

Security Holes & Backdoors In FreePBX

Filed Under Linux, Networking, PBX, Security at 21st September 2011 17:20 by

I found a chilling article by chance the consequence was extremely bad! It seems security was not high on the agenda when FreePBX was initially developed and the developers had built some default and backdoors into a system for easy … Continue reading →

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Aug/11

WiTopia VPN Abroad

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Networking at 28th August 2011 19:01 by

Overview I recently went abroad to Cyprus and got a chance to try using a VPN service “on the road”. I had my Android and Linux devices with mixed results. Please continue reading to find out more. Ubuntu 11.04 I … Continue reading →

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Jul/11

Linux – List Open Ports

Filed Under Linux, Networking at 20th July 2011 21:11 by
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Command to list all the ports that are open / listening for incoming traffic: $netstat -a | egrep ‘Proto|LISTEN’