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what’s a good router?

My 8 year old DLINK router is acting weird (i keep getting disconnected when I try to connect wirelessly)
what do you guys think about this router? (No more dlink.. they suck… LINKSYS is good right?)
(supports 802.11n)Looks good to me. But you know what they say about assholes and opinions.I had mucho problems with my [...]

I’d like to extend my router’s wireless range.

I know of several ways to do this but would like people’s opinions of what they’ve done/read etc.
The router is upstairs and needs to be so I don’t have to run wires behind walls so moving the router is out. I was thinking of extending the antenna via ( I think [...]

Some Website will Not load

For some reason a website will not load on my computer. Every other website works fine.
I use OpenDNS, Comodo Firewall pro, DD-WRT V24, and I have DSL broadband. For some reason the website will not load on any of my computers in any browser (IE7, Opera 9.5, FF3) I turned off [...]

A certain website will not load

My website (ohio-firearms.com) won’t load for me for some reason on my laptop.
Work computer – it loads
Phone – it loads
Other people – it loads
My laptop – ‘Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage.’ Won’t load in FireFox either.
Reset my router. Cleared history, temp files, cookies. Restarted multiple times.
It still doesn’t work. [...]

Remote Desktop v.Vista

I’m trying to set up a Remote Desktop connection on my Vista home machine.
I’d like to connect to it from remote computers via the internet.
I’m connected to the internet via cable modem, then an external router.
My question is, how do I find the computer name/ip address of the computer?
Is it the IPv6 address in ipconfig?
that’s [...]

Office VPN Headaches. Maybe I should use a VM?

My office has a SonicWALL SSL VPN 200 and a Fortinet FortiGate 100A. The first is a dedicated SSL VPN box, and it’s reliable, but it’s too slow. The second is a firewall/router/VPN, and it’s fast, but connectivity is spotty and the routing tables needed to connect the VPN to five subnets (some of which [...]

Browsers connect to internet, other programs do not

I’ve been lookin’ around on the internet for a little while now about this problem and so far I have come up empty handed. If you can find a link to a solution or something that would be great, I’m still looking.
Basically, all of my programs that require an internet connection for a task simply [...]

Port forwarding problem

I got my DSL connection before I got my wireless router, so I set up the router. I’ve been trying to download torrents, and it lets me, but it throttles my speed by at least 1/2 if not more. I’ve went to the various tutorial sites on how to set up port forwarding, but everytime [...]

A couple of VPN questions.

1. Does anyone know, or know of a good explanation of, how to set up a L2TP VPN based on a Windows Server 2003 machine? I’m tired of dicking around with little metal boxes running proprietary OSes that are impossible to configure without a special training class offered by the manufacturer.
2. Why do IPSEC VPNs [...]

Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes

An unpatched PC is likely to last just four minutes on the internet before been attacked and compromised.
The time it takes for a PC to get itself owned varies by operating system and what activities a user engages in – but even allowing for this, putting an unpatched Windows PC directly onto the [...]