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In the era where Australia was being explored, there was an explorer named Hamilton Hume or Hamy as his friends liked to call him. Hamy wasn't only an explorer, he was an avid collector of potholes. Large potholes, small potholes. Potholes that will just inconvenience you up to potholes that will bu...

Two posts in a day? Post number two mere hours after this one?

Well, I posted about the fast Internet and then realised I failed to mention a critical other topic - is it secure?

Turns out no - no it's not secure. And this isn't necessarily the nightmare you may imagine however Android and iOS...

I'm currently sitting at the dining room table of a cabin. The cabin is in a camp site. The camp site is a Big4 in the Gold Coast.

It's not exactly the sticks, but it's not exactly a high density urban environment either.

We're in the Gold Coast because my daughter has a sporting competition tha...

From my earliest teens I have been my family's tech support. This isn't just some throw away comment either. At the age of 13 I built my first network, a 10BASE2 setup (that's Coaxial cable, like a TV antenna for those who aren't familiar) for my father's small business. My job was to crawl under...

The year is 2011. My wife and I have been living together for 2 years and she has generously allowed me to turn the back storage room of our then house into a home lab. The back room was a dodgy extension built after the house. I painstakingly ran network cable to the outer wall of the extension a...

A little over 12 months ago, I posted an opinion piece on travel routers. This is just an update, so for context I recommend clicking this link for a quick read.

Since then my travel router has continued to follow me everywhere. In June 2023 it followed me to the US and back, in December 2023 it came to Beechworth where (tethered to my phone) it provided the family with Internet and directly after that it came with us to Bright where it was used to log into the local caravan park's wifi and (again) distribute Internet to the family. In between all of this it has done the Melbourne to Sydney dash countless times.

I may have a few too many travel routers. Perhaps the correct term for multiple travel routers is an embarrassment of travel routers?

But all jokes aside, travel routers are an essential item for all forms of travel. I've taken one with me on every recent holiday and every recent work trip. Th...