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Debian 9 This is week saw the latest instalment of the much anticipated Linux distribution Debian (9) ‘Stretch’. Debian named after its created Ian and then girlfriend Debbie is one of the oldest and most stable Linux distributions used and loved by millions of people and company who use it for everything from servers to desktop operating systems. Debian developers… Read more →
The NBN has released a lit of suburbs in Townsville and surrounding North Queensland suburbs which will be getting NBN in 2017. Fingers crossed your on the list. Alice River Rangewood Babinda Ellerbeck Cardwell Cullinane Flying Fish Point Innisfail Innisfail Estate Coconuts Belvedere Goondi Bend Goondi Hill Hudson Innisfail Mighell Mundoo Sundown (Cassowary Coast – Qld) Wangan East Innisfail Mourilyan… Read more →
There are many different ways you can receive your internet and there are many different types of wireless (wifi) communications available. But for the purpose of this post I am going to try and explain the difference between the couple of options we have in Australia depending on where you live and what type of hardware you have in place. Interesting Fact:… Read more →
What is a DNS server You might not know this, but every time you go onto the internet, check your email of use Facebook, you are using a DNS service. Every computer, router or network on the internet has an IP address, something that looks like 123.456.789.123. This is a unique address assigned to a host which identifies it as a… Read more →
A lot of people use Google Chrome now as their main Web Browser. A web browser is the program on your computer or mobile device like phone or tablet you use to access web sites, such as Google, Facebook, banking etc. There are many different web browsers available. To begin with Netscape was the main one. Internet Explorer as always… Read more →
Not to be confused with your 3G or 4G phone wireless carrier, Wi-Fi for your computer and home network is a technology you use at home with a computer or wireless device to talk to your network. At home this is usually to your wireless router which is connected to the internet, and the device you connect to is referred to as… Read more →
Speaking to a lot of people in Townsville, after all these years there still seems to be a lot of confusion about what the internet is and it not. Some people think email is the internet and others thing it is a webpage or Google. All these things are close, but probably not close enough. The internet is made up of… Read more →
What is PTSN PTSN stands for Public Switched Telephone Network, and before the internet became mainstream was the old telephone type system we have and still use a lot in our homes and business. If you have seen the old movies where someone sits at a desk switching telephones together from calls inbound and connecting to calls outbound you have… Read more →
Recently I updated my router. In fact I went from using my Apple Airport Extreme to using a custom made PFSense Linux Operating System instead of a standard router. My PFsense router has IPv6 on as default. A lot of new routers supplied by your interest service provider will have this as well, even if your ISP doesn’t support it.… Read more →
Bad Network Driver Device Drivers are software on your computer, which talk to the operating system on your behalf, so basically you don’t have to do anything, just connect. Some drivers are built into your system and other need to be added, such as those with a 4G network card your wireless carrier will provide for you. When you connect… Read more →
