Re: [Scottish] Router suitable for a small home network

[Jason Irwin]

I have a Buffalo Dual Band Nfinity WZR-HP-AG300H-EU. Works well, DD-WRT (so
dnsmasq etc). Only real issue I have with it is that it isn't possible to
separate wired traffic (e.g. port 1 for untrusted [TV], port 2 for work,
ports 3 & 4 for home). There may alse be a compatibility issue with OS X
(Safari hangs - but the MBP is suspect). GNU/Linux and Windows work
perfecly. That may or may not be an issues for you.

About £70, I think there's a new version out too.

Also...surge protectors! :-)


On 8 December 2013 22:16, John Gordon Ollason wrote:

> I have a small domestic network comprising my linux box (wired), my wife's
> PC (wireless), an Iyonix (a computer that nobody has ever heard of)
> (wired), the tv (wired) a RaspberryPi (wired), and a network printer
> (wireless). I am connecting to a bog-standard dsl broadband ISP.
>
>  On Thursday last at 0640 we had an almost directly overhead stroke of
> lightning: flash, bang, and the lights went out. We were lucky: the only
> casualty was the router; a neighbour lost all of his electronic equipment.
>
>  I went to town to the only computerish shop and bought the only
> replacement router that they stock TP-Link TD-W8961ND and I am not very
> impressed with it.
>
>  The web-interface is extremely slow and hangs a lot. The router seems to
> be rather sensitive to temperature and has needed to be restarted after
> only about 8 hours of service, and with the feeble web interface, that took
> about 20 minutes. In fact the web-interface has died altogether now so I
> can't reconfigure it or do a soft reboot, but at least it's talking to me.
>
> So off I went to PCWorld was sold a Netgear D6200, get it home and
> discovered that it can't be configured by an ethernet connexion: it has to
> be configured wirelessly. So I configured it and it was easy to get my
> wife's PC online. Then I tried plugging in the ethernet connectors.
> Nothing, Downloaded the manual from Netgear: nothing helpful. Fiddled about
> with the connectors and got two out four connected but only for a short
> while (the sockets have a nasty floppy feel about them). So it's going back
> to PCWorld tomorrow.
>
> So can anybody recommend a decent no-frills, solid router with at least
> four ethernet sockets and wifi that can be reliably configured from a
> web-interface?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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Re: [Scottish] Unsubscribing

[Jason Irwin]

On 08/12/11 09:58, Claudio Calvelli wrote:
> Well, there's a "List-Unsubscribe" header which your mail client may or
> may not understand:
>   List-Unsubscribe: ,
> 
Excellent, learn something new every day.  Seems Thunderbird doesn't
support it
natively, but there is an add-on (not for T8.0 though).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/unsubscribe-from-mailing-list/

Thanks for the tip.

J.

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Re: [Scottish] Unsubscribing (was: Jotismland)

[Jason Irwin]

On 08/12/11 07:46, Claudio Calvelli wrote:
> There they would receive all these "unsubscribe me" messages (and probably
> nothing else) until they figured out how to follow the simple instructions
> instead of asking other people to do it for them.

And these instructions would be where?  They're not at the bottom of
this email and the only link goes to an HTTPS page that is likely to
chuck up an "Invalid certificate" warning which people would rightly be
disinclined to add an exception for without doing some research first.
And do we forget that some mail systems do use the subject "unsubscribe"
as a way to, well, unsubscribe?

Is it not possible to make everyone's life easier by simply having an
"Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email?  Once it's that obvious,
then one might be justified in publicly chastising people.

Sorry if I seem rude and I am not trying to have a go at you
specifically, Claudio.

For those who wish to unsubscribe:
Click the link at the bottom of this email.
If you get an "Untrusted/Invalid certificate warning" it's 
probably
because CAcert.org is not included in the trust root of your browser for
various reasons.  Simply add a temporary exception.
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Bang in your email address beside the "Unsubscribe or edit options" 
button.
Click the button.
Follow the further instructions on the next page.
J.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I do not wish to unsubscribe)

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Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

[Jason Irwin]

>Then it doesn't matter who, buy a business broadband package
I hadn't really considered SLA's to be honest and I'm not sure the budget
would stretch to a proper business account.  (I had planned to grab some
virtual images when I leave and work off-line if the worst happened).

[0] Okay, I lied, get Virgin50mbit or BeThere24mbit :)
Aye, at the moment it's a toss-up between VM and O2 (Be say I'm too far from
the exchange, which is odd as it's only about half a mile away).  Waiting to
get some info from the landlord on tv aerial etc.

[1] http://store-3.co.uk/3-unlimited-data-one-plan.html
A smartphone would only be another toy for me to play with and get even less
done!  :)

Thanks for all the info, hopefully I can get something sorted soon.

J.
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[Scottish] Broadband advice

[Jason Irwin]

I am in the process of moving (to Nottingham...) and need to get broadband
set-up.  I'll be telecommuting (which will be a new experience) and wondered
if people had any advice on a decent ISP?  I'm with TalkTalk just now and
whilst they're OK, I am not sure I trust them with what will be an essential
connection.  I'll probably be hammering the heck out of any bandwidth limit
with RDP connections too.

Looking at Virign Media just now, any good?

Hope you all had a Christmas and New Year's.

J.
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[Scottish] Connect to a network from CLI

[Jason Irwin]

I've got Ubuntu 10.10 running on an old laptop and every now and again it
has a grump with X and is a pain in the arse (pretty sure it's a loose
connection as sometimes the BIOS moans it can't find any video).  Anyway, I
can usually get to TTY which is cool.

 

So I am sat in a cafe thinking "TTY's not so bad, I've got w3m installed and
I just want to read the news anyway..." and that's where I came unstuck.
Could I figure out how to connect to a network from the CLI?  Could I
buggery.  The cafe's network was already known to "Network Manager"*, so is
there any handy-dandy command line kung-fu I can apply to use that
definition?  Or will I have to go the long-way-round and use
"wpa_supplicant" or something?

 

Cheers,

 

J.

*And why doesn't "Network Manager" let you select a network definition and
force a connection attempt?  Urf.

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Re: [Scottish] BBC Master Compact

[Jason Irwin]

>If you're actually *in* Glasgow, and just not able to get to the
>southside, *and* you're not in a desparate hurry then I could pick it up
>on my next excursion to the Deep South.  Over the next week I'll be in
>and about Polmadie a few times.

Err, or I could drop it off if it comes to that.  So long as "north" doesn't
mean "Aberdeen".  :o)
It either goes to someone here, on eBay or the bin.

I still need to fetch it down and check the state of it, it may have
degraded further after being in the loft.

J.


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[Scottish] BBC Master Compact

[Jason Irwin]

I have a BBC Master Compact (with monitor and printer) sat in the loft and
needing a good home.  From memory it does not boot correctly (I think it
might be a disc controller issue) but I've not had a chance to check it yet,
will try and do so this w/end.

 

Free to collect, Southside Glasgow.

 

Cheers,

 

J.

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[Scottish] Install Day

[Jason Irwin]

I know a few people/groups I was going to tell about the install day.  Do we
have an "official" flyer or something to use?  If not, I'll just rip the
information off the wiki and provide a link back to that.

 

Cheers,

 

J.

 

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[Scottish] Kenny's talk, OBU

[Jason Irwin]

I really enjoyed Kenny's talk and was just wondering; are the slides or any
other information on-line?  I was speaking to a colleague who does work with
a community radio station and they were looking at one of the "professional"
units but can't justify the expense, he's was curious about the work Kenny
did.

 

Hmm...I should really tell him about the install day, shouldn't I?

 

Cheers,

 

J.

 

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Re: [Scottish] Open Data in Scotland

[Jason Irwin]

You could do worse than speak to your local councillor during their
surgery.  Some are OK; Councillor Braat [Lab] is one, Baillie Baker (Green)
is another.
They're both West End, but the council makes it pretty easy to find your own
councillor.

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/councillorsandcommittees/allMembers.asp?sort=0

You may even have a local community council/gorup association that meets up
periodically (e.g. Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Community Council, not mine but
one I know that is active).  Maybe a few can be brought on board there.
Unfortunately I can't find a convenient site that lists the various groups
contact details.

The pertinent questions you'd need to be able to answer are along the lines
of:
1) Why is it good for councils to be more open?
2) What benefits can they gain?
3) How being open could save them money? (if that's possible)

Then you have the various issue over how the information is made public.  No
point in releasing information that is hard to compare/aggregate (afraid I
have no experience of that).

J.

On 22 June 2010 17:15, Kyle Gordon  wrote:

> Just discovered this handy website
> http://openlylocal.com/councils/open?country=Scotland
>
> So, where and how do we go about persuading councils to change their
> ways?
>
> Kyle
>
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Re: [Scottish] Help needed with group page

[Jason Irwin]

Hi,

I've created myself a user account ("roadSurfer").  Think I need someone to
add my to the ScotLUG group or something.
Then I can add myself as a wannabe expert for the install day.

Cheers,

J.
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Re: [Scottish] Help needed with group page

[Jason Irwin]

>Hi Stuart, I think there is an extra hoop to jump through before you can
>edit the wiki due to massive amounts of spam.
>
>I've put you in the relevant group, let me know if you still can't get
>access.

I should be free to help out as well, although I'm not the most experienced
of people.  If you could add me to the group please, I'll plonk myself on
the list.

J.
(And is anyone else getting duplicates of all messages?)


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[Scottish] XRDP and Windows 7

[Jason Irwin]

Does anyone know if it is possible to get XRDP to work with Win7?

 

I had this working fine with Windows XP, but after upgrading the XP box to
Win7 (I couldn't go Linux for various reasons) I now get the lovely "Because
of a protocol error, this session will be disconnected..." exception message
from "mtsc" on Win7.

 

As an island of Linux in a sea of Windows, I can't really run around
installing VNC unfortunately.

 

Cheers,

 

J.

 

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