Archive for March, 2009

Netgear router gets shot with shotgun..

I am sure some of us that support DSL have been tempted to do the following on more than one occasion… Netgear for me is usually pretty good (barring some obvious exceptions), but this did make me chuckle.. Note this does contain a word that rhymes with hit, so don’t click if you are sensitive to [ READ MORE ]

What happens with overheating on a Dlink DSL modem

Keeping a modem cool is good advice for any DSL modem, if you touch the case, (be careful I have heard of some people actually burning their hand!) you might feel it as quite heated, if it is then the following advice I have heard helping out: 1) ezas always swears by putting the modem under [ READ MORE ]

How to block all online ads, with Netgear DSL modem and Adblock Plus

I saw a really clever idea posted here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22017958-Netgear-Block-Sites-Keywords Basically TamaraB worked out that by using the blocked site section from out of the modem, you can remove the ads Some of the Netgear models (such as the FVS338) when you turn keyword blocking on, then it can result in a throughput decrease. But if ads really bothers [ READ MORE ]

Forum watch - my fav. DSL forum threads.

  • March 19th, 2009
  • Posted in adsl

Hi there, I wanted to do a summary of some of the key stories from either forums or newspapers going on at the moment that caught my random eye: The biggest ADSL forum news of course is that I have an actually half decent looking forum!! http://www.adslgeek.com/dslforum The old one was using vanilla forum and it was just so [ READ MORE ]

Geek gets new USB finger…

Man! This is pretty cool! Geek Replaces Lost Finger With 2GB USB Finger Daniel Ionescu, PC World Mar 19, 2009 2:00 am   A Finnish programmer who lost his finger in a motorcycle accident has now replaced it with a fake finger that has a USB drive built in. Jerry Jalava can now peel back his “nail” and reveal a [ READ MORE ]

More tips to speed up your PC etc.

Hi there, It has been a while since I have added a blog post because I have been working on my DSL troubleshooter, and finding more emulators, but I wanted to cover off more tools that are helpful to speed up your PC and protect it in the new year!. Run a free scan to test your [ READ MORE ]

How to hide the sites you have been looking at..

I always remember a middle aged Indian guy called up the helpdesk in about 1998, and asked me with a very thick accent and very measured tone as if he was thinking out very carefully what to say: “If say for example a person, say they wanted to look at a sight, I don’t know say… [ READ MORE ]