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    $9 Router Cooling (RT-AC68U Example)

    Martin As soon I read your posting, I did scramble back to the small room to check the ambiance temperature, it actually is running in the 70-75 degrees. I move my outdoor thermostat inside the room, that reads both in Celsius and Fahrenheit plus it has a humidity Gage. What surprise me, and...
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    $9 Router Cooling (RT-AC68U Example)

    I still use a small floor fan set at low speed for the summer. Since, I did relocated the TPLINK Adsl router, switches and the ASUS WiFi, to a small storage room, the fan is only use to boost the air circulation around the small room, there is no windows in that room. The Asus and the ADSL...
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    pfSense 2.3 Released

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    pfSense 2.3 Released

    sfx I read about it in Distrowatch.com, the same day it was released. I started to use version pfSense 2.2, already did the upgrades, surely the 2.3 ver, made it more "Professional look", functionality still very good and impressive. I'm just a new user and still learning about it, nothing...
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    As a consumer of Asus products, I hope Asus does what is right. But in the other hand, I use one Tp-link ADSL router, Makes me ponder and wonder, what are they doing to improve their products?
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    I definitely agree
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    I used the Gpgp encryption Idea after posting my comment, did saved it to my encrypted thumb-drive and it does works. darn thing is long, long 150 word=numbers encryption. My challenge will be my wife, Got to notifying her on the new changes to the password after work hours.
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    A 33 character mix of upper & lower case alpha, numbers and symbols with few common words. Are you writing a new paragraph for a book as a password? Hilarious, that is a long one. You gave me an Idea, I might use an encrypted signature using Gpgp as a password. Then copy and paste it. That...
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    SFX I found your comments very knowledgeable.
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    FTC Dings ASUS For Selling 'Secure' Routers.

    That is why in the past, never did trusted them, it just reinforce and confirm my suspicion. I did disable any of the cloud features of my Asus Router. Glad Never used those I cloud tools. Matter fact, I just change the password to a more stronger one, instead of 10 to 12digits including...
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    $9 Router Cooling (RT-AC68U Example)

    Martinr According to our records, in the summer, the room temperature is around 75 degrees with a 50 percent humidity . In the winter is a cozy, 70 degrees with a 45 to 50 percent humidity. We live 150 miles from the sea. In a farm land that we bought. Since we finished renovating the...
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    $9 Router Cooling (RT-AC68U Example)

    I did mines the old fashion way. Well, for my Asus router, and my TP-link ADSL router. I mounted in the wall, right above the wooden shelves, a small Fan, Pointing downwards towards the vents of both routers. It does the trick, to keep them at a cool temperature. About dust accumulation, is...
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    CAT5/CAT6 - interesting article

    A lot of time people don't want to pay for cabling testing tools to run their own home test.
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    CAT5/CAT6 - interesting article

    When I bought the cat5e roll, I broke out my fluke, to test the length, Gage, and weight of the spool cable, I was making sure there was no "short falls in the factory spool roll", the sales man was asking my son: That gentleman is so picky! My son told him: He is my father! I just smile with a...
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    CAT5/CAT6 - interesting article

    So far all the wiring jobs, I did at home, is all Belkin manufacture. Had no issues with Belkin cables and rj45 connectors. One time was checking the boxes for the manufacturing certifications, packaging labels and the Holographic Label Authentication was legit. then I discover the 300 feet...
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