Tag: Networking
It’s interesting to look back at everything I’ve built, read, installed, purchased, or otherwise experienced throughout the past year. The lists that follow (in no particular order) are my 2019 favorites. RV Projects and Items New RV Locks Since the day I took home the travel trailer, the locks had bothered me. With only a small number of unique key…
Outside of populated areas, the radio/TV antenna on our trailer doesn’t catch much. Between dense forest and mountains a thousand feet taller than any of the broadcasting towers, the signal is effectively gone by the time it reaches one of our typical campsites. Video is a solved problem between a huge local media library and the option to stream if…
At home I normally stream most of what I watch — there’s very little on Netflix that interests me that I haven’t seen at least some portion of. This doesn’t cope well with the significantly bandwidth-constrained internet access I have in the travel trailer. I’d likely use up all or most of the high speed portion of my “unlimited” bandwidth…
In the summer of 2017 we purchased a travel trailer, part of the motivation being that we could travel more (really, to avoid the summer forest fires if for no other reason) while simultaneously working. Since I work remotely, I am able to work anywhere I have sufficient hardware (usually my laptop and local test server) and an internet connection.…
Over the past few years, security industry experts have been warning that the internet of things (IoT) is wildly insecure. In recent weeks this has come to fruition, first with a DDoS against krebsonsecurity.com and later with a DDoS against Dyn’s name servers. It was the sign I needed to finally make the move from thinking about improvements to my…