Author: KDS

Next Best thing IPv6 ?

I know IPv6 is the future. at home I made sure all my equipment is ready for it including the server,routers etc. getting the UK isp is a massive issue most charges average around £60/month. which is for a home use a lot.

Other issue is getting ipv4 and ipv6 working together will be interesting challenge. lot of people wrote lot of things but will see

BT infinity/fibre /FTTC broadband 1 year on review

I\’m on BT infinity for bit more than a year now. 18 months contract so I have a few months to go. the BT cabinet is just out side my house, so I get full speed. On average I get around 20mbit/s upload and 68mbit/sec download. It\’s not bad for normal website you tube etc

only complaint I have aprt from their crappy home hub (see the review below) is their routing with big tv services like BBC iplayer and Sky player. it\’s rubbish it\’s buffer like crazy. I know it\’s an BT issue as If I vpn to another ISP it\’s works fine and When i was with BE/O2 even though the speed is slower never had a buffering on this services.

I knew BT isn\’t great on routing even before I joined but at the time only BT did the BT infinity in my area.

BT should fire their network operations team and hire a good ones like other ISP. BE/O2 had a good team.

obviously I\’ll be canceling BT and moving to a better ISP might be sky not sure yet. all though BT adverts claiming they don\’t limit the usages are bullshit as it wont work correctly in the 1st place.

I don\’t use p2p so BT blocking that is not an issue for me but They should work on fixing iplayer and sky player.

You can only expect this kind of network issues on a 3rd world county isps not from UK\’s largest ISP

Mobile phones and the future

I\’m think now with Firefox OS and Ubuntu mobile trying to get in to the  mobile market not sure who will be the winner will be. I think Ubuntu has a good chance with their one interface for phone and another interface for big screen, when it\’s docked is amazing. It\’s not new but looks promising on video.  And they are saying easy to import android apps is a plus for them too.

Firefox os I\’m not so sure about html 5 apps I think apple tried that 1st didn\’t work well. not sure where windows will be though i\’m sure some big companies might use it for the control.

Will see this interesting development. sadly only one can win though

HP ProLiant Turion II N40L MicroServer Review

I was surprised how good it is only £139.99 after cashback. Installed  home server 2011 using the USB key which was pain free took a while to install though. that might be to do with windows server software. very quite. I like the build quality. Drives are hot swappable and their is an internal usb port you can run the OS from a 64 GB usb key and use the drives bay for the storage. I didn\’t do it that was but if you after some fast boot time you can. All screws and even the screw driver is came with a server. Only thing I cant find is the SATA cable for CD rom but using usb disk to install is pain free.

This server has very low power consumption as well thanks to AMD low power processor only 15watt . If any one with under 10 user then this server is highly recommended. it does the mac back up as well as all windows computer from xp.

usefull tip about apple servers go blank screen

http://www.remotemacserver.com/?p=41

 

On your client open up Terminal (OS X or Linux) or use PuTTy (Windows), login to your server and perform the following commands:

ps auxwww|grep loginwindow

This should give you an an output like this:

root 925 0.0 0.1 2503556 5580 ?? Us 3:05AM 0:00.08 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
jc 953 0.0 0.0 2425708 276 s000 R+ 3:05AM 0:00.00 grep loginwindow

You may have a few different lines, but essentially you’re looking for the root line, the process id in my case is 925. Now that we have the process ID we will want to issue the kill -9 command and it would look like this:

sudo kill -9 953

windows 8 and microsoft office 2013 review

only used it a day so not an expert on this but looks good. I have to install the classic start menu though as I can\’t use metro on a normal monitor.

Windows 8 feel faster fresh install took a while though it might be my computer being 5 years old.

installed the office 2013 64bit install was fast and working great. I like the intro when you 1st start up to say how good it is but I didn\’t find any different other than it looks similar to the office 365.

I mainly started using mac now but I like MS trying some thing new but they shouldn\’t have got rid of start menu hope they fix soon. Windows store search  is rubbish cant find any thing I have to go back to Google to find things

BT Home Hub 3 review

What a peace of  ****, I know ISP given free routers are generally poor quality  but this one takes a cake,

1) Wireless
 If you are connection any thing more than 5 equipement router struggles to cope you might think 5 is a lot of equipments,  but with smart phone , tablets  etc 2 people house hold will have 5+ items. Good thing ASA upheld the complaint about their Misleading Most Reliable Wireless Connection Claim  

Another thing Home Hub 3 will automatically enables BTFON their is no way to turn this off on the router.  It\’s secure but still BT should have given me the choice not enable it by default.

2)wired 

only 100mb ports connection is ok but not much their to write about

3)DHCP

Router has DHCP server but you can\’t change the DNS on that I think it\’s to do with BTFON. If you use opendns, google dns or your own DNS then you have to manually change the dns server.

4) router interface 

Full of BT adverts their net protect plus and some other **** product I dont care about. Advanced setting dont have any thing advanced

5) No root acceess 

BT give you a user call admin on that box but can\’t have a root access (some one need to crack this box I can donate this box for free to any one in few days

I have ordered Linksys  E4200 Dual-Band N Router

 

 

 

 

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