With the advent of standardized 802.11n Wi-Fi, it’s easier than ever to expand your business network wirelessly, but that may not always be a smart idea. I’m sitting outside an office building in Portland, Oregon. The building has at least half a dozen businesses with about 40 Wi-Fi access points (AP). In the hour I’ve [...]
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Wi-Fi Convenient, but Dangerous
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Network · Network Services · Security · Wi-Fi
Wave fails, Twitter wins. Why?
August 5th, 2010 · Comments Off
I was one of those lucky people given early admission to Google Wave. There was only one problem. Once we had Google Wave, we couldn’t figure out what to do with it. And if we, a bunch of techno-geeks and technology journalists, couldn’t come up with a good use for Wave, what chance did anyone [...]
Tags: Applications · Business · Google · IM · Network · Network Services · Social Networking
How to get Windows and Linux to cooperate on the network
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re doing, getting the two to meet on the network can seem like it’s almost impossible. Fortunately, [...]
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Intranet · Linux · Network · Network Services · Operating System · Samba · Server · Windows
Going to IPv6 isn’t going to be easy
August 4th, 2010 · Comments Off
ecently, I’ve been writing a lot about IPv6, the next generation of the Internet Protocol that makes the Internet and most home and business networks go. Now, like it or lump it, we, starting with our businesses and mobile devices and eventually our home networks, are all going to have to move to IPv6. That [...]
Tags: Internet · Network · Network Services · TCP/IP
Ready or Not Your Network Is Moving to IPv6
August 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off
Every few years there’s another panic about everyone running out of IP addresses. The terror that the Internet would simply run out of room is finally coming true. It’s not so much that computers are consuming the IP addresses; it’s all those smartphones, iPads, and other devices that require Internet access. The Number Resource Organization [...]
Tags: Internet · Network · Network Services · TCP/IP