Category: Networking
DNS Benchmark: Identify fastest DNS servers
If you’ve been a techie for a long time, you’ll know who Steve Gibson from GRC is. His tools are mostly built in Assembly, so it’s rocket-fast. (One thing to note is they’re only for Windows.) For this post, I’d like to share the tool I use to identify which DNS servers I should use, as…
ASUS RT-AC68R Tuning
I’ve had one of these bad boys for a couple of years and just tuned it, per the link below. Adding here for archival purposes. https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.rickygao.com.au/blog/tuning-the-asus-wireless-router-to-best-performance
Apple Extreme 802.11ac: Allow DHCP renewal packets
I recently purchased an Apple Extreme 802.11ac router, as my trusty, old WRT54G running dd-wrt has finally died. I’m not too happy that this router doesn’t support stateful packet inspection — I need to know what my kids are viewing. Other than that, it’s been super easy to setup. Anyway, my AT&T 3600HGV modem is…
Remotely reboot Linksys WRT54G
I had the need the reboot my Linksys WRT54G router remotely. Unfortunately, the web interface is not like DD-WRT where a reboot button is available; however, there IS a hidden page. 1. Login into the web admin page, which is by default: http://192.168.1.1. 2. Add reset.htm, as in http://192.168.1.1/reset.htm. 3. Click “Yes” to reboot. 4.…
The Internet’s under the sea fiber optic cables
Here’s a diagram (on the Guardian website) showing the fiber optic cables under the sea that connects the world together. Very interesting!
PsTools communication errors
My friend Anthony was getting “access denied” and “logon failure” errors when trying to to run psexec (from one of the PsTools suite) from an XP machine on a domain to an XP machine in a workgroup. It was something similar to: PsInfo 1.34 – local and remote system information viewerCopyright (C) 2001-2002 Mark RussinovichSysinternals – www.sysinternals.com…