There is apparently a hack to install the OpenVPN server component on WD's 'My world edition' linux based NAS thingy. http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/openvpn Anyone done this, and feel comfortable about the security of this solution? Private IP thoughput issues? I can serve 1.3Mbps out of my local network, the intention is to stream standard definition video through the tunnel.

Hey Experts, I am trying to setup a NetBios system on my pair of boxes - Box1 (Win2K) and NetBook (Win7). I visited the 'Local Area Connection 2' in Network and Dialup Connections on Box1. Opening the 'Local Area Connection 2' and clicking the General tab I find 'NWLink NetBios' and select it. Then I click the Install button and I get a small window with choices of Client, Service and...

I was at a customer's house setting up broadband and put in microfilters in all the phone sockets that had phones plugged into them, plus one for the socket that the router is plugged into. He's reporting that since then, intermittently his phones don't ring or else give a feeble bleep instead of a proper ring-ring. Now he may have fallen foul of the REN problem - the RENs of all his phones...

As I understand it, for a house with a two-part BT master socket, the boundary between BT and householder responsibility for line faults that affect broadband is the master socket: *even if BT rather than the householder has installed an extension*, that extension is the householder's responsibility. But what is the situation if there no discernable master socket? The other day I was called...

Hi, Currently have a US robotics domestic product which has worked very well and reliably for about 5 years. I now need to update and include wireless connectivity. I am looking to order in about 1 months time. I need very good reliability and firewall protection above anything else. I also need at least 4 LAN ports (6 or more would be nice) as well as wireless connectivity, ADSL2 or...

Hi Drew Kelburn Pony Club are holding a pony camp just now, and are doing a show on Wednesday (2 of my girls are in it). So, I'll take pictures for the paper while I'm there at the show. Cheers Ailsa Tomany

This has baffled me and I have reached the limit of my knowledge. Can anyone here offer a solution? My home network has an ADSL router with 4 wired ports plus wireless. Two ports have wired desktop PC connections and a third has a NAS disk array. There's also a laptop using the wireless connection. A few days ago one of the desktop PCs suddenly decided that it could no longer access the other...

WPA-TKIP heads on please. I'm currently debugging someone else's WPA wireless card driver and having some issues with TKIP MIC failures blocking ubuntu traffic to my access point. So, in the name of getting the custom build out of the door, I've disabled MIC checking and the whole thing 'authenticates' nicely. Phew.... However, the wireless environment that this build is heading for is...

A friend asked my to investigate why his new router, a Zyxel P-660HW-T V2, (supplied by his business) wasn't allowing one of his PCs to work. I established that this PC, which is connected over Ethernet, isn't being given an IP address whereas another PC which connects over wireless is getting an IP address by DHCP. My own laptop failed in the same way to get an IP address over Ethernet but...

"Mortimer" wrote in message ... "Mark Opolo" wrote in message ... Does ERNIE work weekends... If there's a pint of milk on your doorstep on a Saturday, that proves that Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) works weekends :-) when does he send...

Hi Son has a PC, and is quite responsible using it, but have found that he is tempted to spend all the evening after school on MSN and Facebook, and also late at night, chatting to his friends. I have a Dell router, and I have used this to quite successfully block all traffic to his PC after 2230 to stop him spending all night on it. However between the hours of 1530 and 1700, I would like...

On 30/05/10 10:33, Donwill wrote: I have a laptop which is full or so the message it displays tells me. I could buy an external disc I suppose, but I got to thinking that it would be useful to archive old data which I want to keep and refer to it if necessary and also make it available to all computers (3) in our home inc Printer and Wlan. I would guess that it's perfectly possible...

Just put in a Netgear DG834Gv5 at home to replace a Voyager 210 that was dropping the line several times a day. It seems to have 11-12 db of noise margin so I was wondering if I could get it to renegotiate the line speed up a bit without dropping the line. Couldn't find a documented command to do it though. Is this likely to be possible? -- Tim "That excessive bail ought not to be...

I know there are many ways to do this but I have a very tiny mind and need something simple to enable me to provide PC support for my mother. At present I have headbangingly frustrating conversations over the phone trying to talk her through her problems (which are usually simple email login problems) and it would be so much easier if I could access her PC and remotely take control. What's...

One of the greatest inventions of all time after the personal home computer has got to be the laptop computer. So many people today own them and many find it very difficult to function during the day without them. So many other people use them than just in the business sector. People with all kinds of lifestyles use a laptop to enhance their lives. School students and mamas that work at home...

I wonder if anyone can help me figure this out. I'm off to Athens for three weeks shortly and while there I want to work on my wifi laptop. There's lots of hotels offering free wifi, but there's a woman in Athens who is offering me a very nice studio flat at a very good rate but it doesn't have wifi. It doesn't even have a phoneline. So I explained to her that it wouldn't be suitable and...

I got fed up with my wi-fi link persistently dropping out - all of 4m range through one wall - so I bought a couple of Netgear XE102UK powerline etherent modules (14Mbps). The router is in the next room and the power sockets are adjacent on the ring main. I am on cable so my 'normal' speeds are about 7Mb download and around 350-400K upload. When I first put the units on line speedtest.net...

Can anyone recommend a good windows utility to continously check network speed by chucking various packets between two computers (one Vista, other XP). I'm not interested in performing speed tests against my ISP, just the LAN. Cheers :) -- Adrian C

My Set Top Box arrived, very happy. (STB) OK the 1st Problem :) It can see my computer (WORKGROUP-BORG-PC) through the LAN connected direct to the computer but when I try and access the computer from the STB it asks for a user name and password. AFAIK I have no user name or password set up. It just logs straight in.

Hi, I have a two PC network on my Windows XP home using lan on a Netgear DG834GSP. I have set up the wireless section of the router so that I can use the iPhone on Wi Fi. Is there any way I can add the iPhone to the network so that I could access the shared printer and drives? Any information gratefully received.