Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

I had been thinking of getting one of these units for a while, though wondering if I could use just as an AP.Meanwhile, Cox has been improving its speed...but I wasn't seeing the improvement. Could see the upstream improvement, but not so much with… more »

That brings the number of units in my condo to 3. :cool:I go this one to replace the UPS (a CyberPowerSystems 1500AVR-HO) that was backing up 'lhaven' and the 8 port switch.After getting it set up, I moved my wireless access point (Belkin F5D7130… more »

Yeah...I've done it.... :cool:using firestarter and dhcp3-server.Last trip I went on, I found myself wondering if there was some way to re-share my hotel internet connection to my various devices (namely my Eee PC [w/eeebuntu] and my iPhone 3G).… more »

I bought my first gigabit switch. It replaces the 5-port Trendnet 10/100 switch at the end of my Livingroom run.At that end is one of the computers that I own that has a gigabit network card. The circa 1993 Dell Desktop that is currently my main ho… more »

I went to another Penguicon, at Penguicon 6 I had earned whuffies which I used to get a shirt for that con and registration to the next one. At Penguicon 7.0, I earned just enough whuffies to get registration to Penguicon 2010 (I had purchased a shirt).… more »

Many months ago, I was looking at the slow WDS bridge from my main desktop to the rest of the network. The rest of my network which includes both of my Internet gateways, as well as numerous multimedia devices (include my TiVo HD and AppleTV)...so I wan… more »

It is kind of a chore to take my memory card out, put it into my reader and transfer the images into a folder on my computer....so I decided to take the plunge and get an Eye-Fi (Share). So far in hind-sight, maybe the Eye-Fi Home would've been suffic… more »

I'm starting to think now that I should've held out for the ASUS Eee PC 1000. I'm finding the 901 a bit too cramped in physical size and storage. I had thought of blowing off the Xandros and doing Ubuntu, which would probably help with space by not h… more »

I mentioned that my URC-6131 was failing...the main annoyance was the PVR Menu button. It was getting harder and harder to get into the Replay Menu on my ReplayTVs. I searched around online to try to find a new URC-6131 (forgetting at first that it n… more »

I fiddled with it a bit more...even with both the master and terminal in the livingroom....I couldn't get the terminal to work from either of the jacks by the computer....and further away...the speed test was poor. Come to think of it, I use powerline… more »

:..( Guess I'll have look at some other solution for home network.....perhaps I'll buy WireTracks for the living room.... Anyways...I when I first tried to set it up...I couldn't get link in the storage room. Turns out the plug tab is broken for t… more »

Wait...it isn't April 2008 yet. Well, there's one item on the map, that I haven't purchased yet. But, I intend to order it tomorrow...and I do hope it arrives before the end of the month....but decided the put a future date to indicate that it contai… more »