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NETGEAR Releases XAVB101 & HDXB111 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters
We have been waiting for revised, higher performance Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters since our “How to build a high performance Powerline home network” article in June of 2007. It seems that after the initial HomePlug 1.0 spec which was a 4 or 7 Mbps spec, things were going quick. We got the HomePlug 1.1 spec that bumped [...]
Continue reading...WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I guess it was only a matter of time utnil someone found a quick way to break WPA Wi-Fi Encryption. Erik Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key used by WPA in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes. So far [...]
Continue reading...Virgin Media, Worst Than Comcast?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
In the recent past it seems that Comcast has become the favorite ISP to hate with their constant manipulation of your traffic, illegal traffic tampering (OOPS, wait, nothing is illegal under Bush admin if done by a big enough corporation, full pardons all around!) and a general all around level of shit service… but it [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
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