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Running a SOCKS5 proxy tunnel for selective Internet traffic

To avoid incurring the wrath of the annoying Rogers packet-injected “over your cap” message, I use two Internet connections to manage our bandwidth usage per month. As well as the 95 GB capped 10Mbps/1Mbps Rogers Extreme plan, I also subscribe to TekSavvy’s 5Mbps/800kbps Residential Dry DSL with the Unlimited option. These services each link into a [...]

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2008 12 11 Jake Billo tech Comments (3)

Two Xboxes, one router: Making UPnP work using DD-WRT or Tomato

This should be a common scenario in shared housing worldwide: you’ve got one Internet connection coming into the house, into a router shared among two or more chumps. Chumps A and B each have an Xbox 360. Specifically, Chump A has one that sounds like an aircraft engine turbine – courtesy of Microsoft’s repair centre. [...]

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2008 12 03 Jake Billo tech Comments (9)

Boo You Fail: Rogers’ DNS servers replaced with OpenDNS

As the informal network weasel in my new place, I get the wonderful joy of troubleshooting malfunctioning appliances and making sure that the router eats as few Xbox Live sessions as possible. Since I’m just lazy enough not to want to set up a Linux routing box, the current approach for networking is two connections [...]

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2008 05 21 Jake Billo angry
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La Fonera wireless router

During my browsing of Something Awful’s coupons forum, I noticed an offer for a free “La Fonera” wireless router. The concept of this device is that it’s an 802.11b/g router with custom OpenWRT firmware, which creates two separate SSID’s:

FON_(accesspoint), which is an open WLAN that allows anyone to connect
MyPlace, a WPA or WPA2-encrypted WLAN that [...]

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2007 03 07 Jake Billo review
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