Yes. Yes it does. Very nicely. Continue reading
Cheap rural friendly WiFi
Living in a rural area you generally have the luxury of space but that space can be a curse when you want a decent WiFi signal anywhere outside your house (and even sometimes within it). The good news is I’ve found a company that make excellent WiFi products that are amazingly high quality but are also cheap. Continue reading
Posted in Networking
Tagged airport express, networking, picostation, ubiquiti, wifi
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How to get wireless broadband out in the sticks
Where I live we we can’t get ADSL and we don’t have a local mobile phone tower but that doesn’t stop us getting high speed internet access. Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged 3g, antenna, optus, satellite, setup, virgin mobile, wireless, yagi-uga
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Reusing old computer hardware
One of the great things about netbooks is that they are cheap. This means when they break it’s not much of a hit to the back pocket to simply replace the hardware. But these little machines can still be useful so don’t be too quick to throw them out. Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged home automation, netbook, pool, recycling, rfxcom, temperature, x10
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Don’t let your FME connector get wet
Just this Friday we had a pretty heavy downpour of rain. 50mm in less than 30 minutes and then just constant rain for the remainder of the day. The following day I noticed that my wireless internet had lost 10db of signal (dropping from 4 bars to 3 bars). Weird. Continue reading