Modern Wireless Terminology
Belden has a great article on some of the Wireless terms being thrown around.
Podcast: Baicells and Gen1
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Baicells and Gen1 CPE not being CBRS compliant and the WISP community’s response
Your .com names are probably going to go up and why
On January 3, 2020, ICANN announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM.
ISPs:How an Internet Exchange can benefit you
FD-IX has an article on how Internet Exchanges (IXes) can benefit your network.
Is your password secure?
One of the reasons to use password managers such as LastPass with 2Factor authentication
Video on how the Internet Works
I have a few nitpicky things and the video seems a little contrived, but it’s decent nonetheless. WISPs are not really mentioned, but others are not as well.
Routing Registries
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I had routing registries on the brain so I wanted to knock some of the rust of recording and did 10 minutes on routing registries and what they are
Routing Registries and you
This was originally published at https://www.mtin.net/blog/internet-routing-registries/ It has been updated form grammar, but I am working on an updated version of this, Routing Registries are a mysterious underpinning of the peering and BGP world. To many, they are arcane and complicated. If you have found this article you are at least investigating the use of … Read more
IOt files:update your Hue bulbs
Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack an entire room full of Philips Hue smart light bulbs from outside a building, by setting off a virus-like chain reaction that jumped from bulb to bulb. Today, we’re learning that vulnerability never got fully fixed https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123491/philips-hue-bulb-hack-hub-firmware-patch-update
Is your web-site running HTTPS? if not, it should
If you have a website, but do not have https as your default or are even running https then this is the article for you.
Free peering has a cost
Lately, there has been some discussion about the pricing of Internet Exchanges (IXes) and the reasons behind free peering ports and paid peering ports
iOT files: Your GE refrigerator and RFID
Apparently, some of the new GE refrigerators and their filters use an RFID chip to validate if the water filter is genuine or not.