Category: Routers & networks

  • 500$ for a 1 Tera-byte NAS

    This is simply the aim of an InformationWeek article. NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions exist to connect 1 Tera-byte (1000 Mega-bytes, dang!) of hard disk drives to your network, but you normally have to pay more than $1000 or 1000€. Here, they show us how to build a DIY data server from a basic PC,…

  • More routers in router comparison chart

    Tom’s Networking web site just updated its comparison chart of small routers. They have some interesting information there.

  • AOL chokes on millions of email messages

    Yesterday, AOL fell because of a “software bug” that prohibited any email to be sent or received by the millions of subscribers to the giant ISP. After an unspecified time (visibly less than 24 hours), the operation could be restored. It seems that there was no email lost. The very old but robust email protocols…

  • BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    Good news: Even if this is not plainly written in the documentation of this fine little Ethernet router from Linksys, the BEFSX41 is fully able to operate as a DNS proxy. You just have to: Use DHCP on the WAN side (on the side of your Internet Service Provider). Configure your machines (Windows, Linux, MacOs)…

  • HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    As we are interested into the HDCP/HDMI technology that the manufacturers are preparing for a wide distribution, we start finding a few amazing facts. We had seen previously that HDCP was a technology doomed to fail in front of the attacks by the media pirates, but there is already worse (for the legal users).

  • Linksys routers (archive)

    If you are interested in getting news I published previously (mostly in 2005) about Linksys routers, just have a look at the original page.