Archive for July, 2008

Beautiful Aberdeen

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

We went to beautiful Aberdeenshire to see friends Jo and Quentin and their two baby daughters. Had a fabulous four days of relaxing and resting after a tough year so far.
I got my camera out of it’s case for the first time properly and here are some favourites:




























BT routers et al

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Dull techy post, but someone might be interested… got a BT business broadband hub in the new house and was struggling to get it to reach the far corners of the house to supply a usable wireless signal… I spent a bit of time researching the options for complicated wireless repeaters and range extenders and various forms of WDS (Wireless Distribution Service) – all of which are badly supported or not supported by most cheap routers (including all three that I own) and not particularly user friendly to set up either. Anyway, as it happens, a simpler solution was to hand – raising the power level on the BT hub which is possible (with a little jiggery pokery) although probably not allowed under the FCC radio transmission rules etc but nevertheless this made the difference between sad S (not able to use internet in kitchen) and happy S (able to use internet in kitchen), so it must be good. BT hub power increase hack

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