Category: networking

I’ve been playing with IPv6 a bit on my home network and experimenting with different access methods. While I love the folks at Hurricane Electric and their Tunnel Broker service, it turns out that both Comcast and CenturyLink …

I’ve been thinking deep thoughts about IPv6 recently. One thought occurred to me recently: what about the concept of private addresses? In IPv4, we have the concept of RFC1918, which defines several blocks of IP addresses for private, non-Internet use. …

A PR firm representing Cisco asked me if I wanted to review the Cisco Valet, which is a line of “surprisingly simply home wireless” devices that, I have to say, does what it says on the tin. It is …

IPv6 is the next generation of IP–the protocol by which most of our computers, phones, and other related devices talk to each other and to the Internet. Today, everything generally talks using IPv4, which has a 32-bit address space, or …

It’s rare that I obtain a consumer grade router that I am generally happy with “out of the box.” The only reason I ever buy a Linksys router …

A poem that needs no explanation to those who understand it.
This is my network. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My network is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I …

What was interesting about this debate between the CTIA and Public Knowledge, which took on the subject of net neutrality and how the proposed FCC rules should be modified for mobile network operators, if …

Over the past couple of days, I was out at VMworld 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, which is a trade show put …

For a while now, the family computers were connected to the Internet using a couple of WiFi routers: one was in a WDS Mesh with my router upstairs …

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One of the phrases I heard when I worked at Nokia …