I've been travelling for the last few weeks, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been thinking about the house. The beauty of online shopping is that you can easily order things while you're on the road, so I did! At this stage most of the major things I wanted to get done are in place so now I'm looking at "tweaks". Storage: The space under the stairs, for example, is … [Read more...] about More Lighting, Wireless Access Points and Tweaks
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Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better
Since I moved into the house I've had broadband. Up until the other day I had a single router which handled both the connection to the outside world, as well as the wifi for the entire house. The router is a Fritz!Box 7560, which works pretty well over IPv4. The IPv6 side of things is incredibly flaky unfortunately, so I've had to disable it for now, which is rather annoying, … [Read more...] about Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better
Wifi Printing Brings A Bit Of Sanity
For several years I had a HP laserjet printer. It was functional. It printed stuff when I needed it, but, unfortunately, whatever drivers it needed did not "play nice" with my Mac and eventually I had to retire it. I mentioned my printer dilemma to a friend a couple of months ago and he suggested a couple of models of wifi enabled printers. I like wifi and bluetooth devices, … [Read more...] about Wifi Printing Brings A Bit Of Sanity
Finding A Hotel In London With Free Wifi
As I'm heading over to London later this week, and I'm a bit disorganised, I only got round to booking a hotel this evening.I'm heading across for a mixture of business and pleasure, so my laptop will be an obligatory accessory.With that in mind I needed to find a hotel that offered wifi (or even wired) internet access. There are plenty of hotels in London with wifi, so that … [Read more...] about Finding A Hotel In London With Free Wifi
Apple Wireless Backup – Time Capsule
Apple's latest bit of hardware, The Time Capsule, sounds like an interesting concept.It's a combination of wireless backup unit for Mac clients and also acts as a wireless base station.Two versions are available:500 Gb1 TerrabyteIt would be complete overkill for someone like me, as any important data is kept on the office network which in turn is backed up to one of our SAN … [Read more...] about Apple Wireless Backup – Time Capsule