Wi-Fi link rate beats signal bars for real-world speed
I blamed my internet provider for two years before I understood why my laptop crawled on a five-bar connection while my phone streamed Netflix in the same room. The provider was not…
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Wireless mesh can carry real LAN traffic to a wired port
There is a small, undocumented behavior in Starlink’s mesh hardware that I keep recommending to anyone stuck with a wired device on the wrong side of a thick wall. Once you understand…
Three Wi-Fi channels actually work, and the rest are a trap
Pick up your phone, open the Wi-Fi settings, and look at what your router is broadcasting on. If it is set to Auto, it has probably already picked one of three specific…
A quiet Wireshark update deserves your Tuesday afternoon
A quiet Wireshark update deserves your Tuesday afternoon. I used to skip Wireshark point releases. That habit died somewhere around version 3.6, when a packet capture ate six hours of my afternoon…
openvpn 2.7.6 patches windows service bug and mbedtls certificate flaw
OpenVPN 2.7.6 dropped this week and I almost skipped reading the changelog. Two CVEs, a kernel-mode data channel sync bug, three defaults that shifted under your config, and a handful of low-level…
Turn a Windows laptop into the backup router you already own
I keep a travel router in a drawer, but the last time my home router failed, the little box was across town in a backpack. The useful hardware was already on my…