Recent content by mikeh2

I suggest a Peplink Balance 20x https://www.peplink.com/products/balance-20x/ Speed is conservatively rated at 900Mbps. Just your price range too.

Signatures for what? The security software is disabled. Firmware and Signature updates sound like 2 requests. There were 5 requests in the log. Do you know if this is documented anywhere? Thank you.

Just an FYI. I have been watching the boot-up network activity of an Asus AC1900P running the latest firmware, 3.0.0.4.386_43129-g60defb2. For whatever reason, it makes a STUN call to Google to learn its public IP address. I see this as a UDP request to port 19302 at 108.177.122.127 This is...

You were correct. Thanks. The domain was indeed blocked using DNS that returned 0.0.0.0. Seems like a bug that netstat tries to resolve this IP address to a name, but it does. Of all the domains blocked with an IP address of zero, a.applovin.com was the first one alphabetically.

Asus RT-AC1900P using latest firmware from May 2021 -- 3.0.0.4.386_43129-g60defb2 It is not directly online, its WAN port is connected to a LAN port on my main router. Lots of problems, it is pretty much non-functional. It thinks its off-line and connected devices can not access Internet. But...

You may want to consider the Pepwave Surf Soho which retails for roughly $180. UI is simple. According to vendor it can handle speeds up to 100Mbps. Business class device for price of consumer. And, being able to use WiFi or 4g/LTE as backup WAN access can be a lifesaver when your ISP suffers an...

You may want to use your router to block access to the modem. Some modems are *not* read-only and you don't want anything malicious on your LAN to be able to communicate with the modem. For more, see Using a router to block a modem...

I updated the router firmware using the web GUI of the router. I did not manually visit the Asus website. Checking the Asus site, I see you are correct. Not sure why the router failed to notify of the latest firmware. It *might* be because the Jan 2014 firmware requires the router to be reset...

I experienced this error and have never used, or even enabled, the VPN. Router is Asus RT-N56U. Firmware is version 3.0.0.4.374_979 Router has been in use for over a year, but this problem happened about 10 days after upgrading the firmware to the latest and greatest. It is *not* a web...

autorun Anything that tricks autorun and autoplay by pretending to be a CD is scary. However, you can turn off autorun totally. Really, totally. See http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_best_way_to_disable_autorun_to_be_protected_from_infected_usb_flash_drives

Thanks. Using the Qnap box with automated rsync backup does indeed seem like a great approach.

Thanks, Tim, for the reply. Still, when two or more physical disks are presented to the outside world as a single disk image, the NAS box has to be doing some internal fudging. Even if the disks use a standard file system, I wonder if this fudging, whatever it is, would prevent data recovery if...

NAS boxes provide RAID Level1 to protect from hard disk failures, but the boxes themselves are a new point of failure. I'd like to see this topic addressed. If the box is running RAID1 can the disks be removed, attached to any Linux based machine for file recovery? I would guess so. If...

I agree about the Captcha, it may be hardest one I've ever run across to read.

my netbook experiences Tim, I've greatly enjoyed your Netbook series. I think Netbooks will be huge, but the first generation (and in HP and Asus's case, second generation) are suffering from what seem like rookie design mistakes. I own an Acer Aspire One (WinXP), MSI Wind (WinXP) and Asus...