Category: wifi

  • BT Broadband users can be hacked!

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    Tom Raftery
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    James Galvin posted a couple of weeks ago about a recently published exploit which made hacking Eircom’s wireless routers trivial. As Eircom are the largest provider of residential broadband in Ireland, this is potentially a big deal. As Joe Drumgoole commented at the time: they have inadvertently created Ireland’s largest free WIFI network. Good man…

  • OS X to Vista networking help needed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Anyone know of any good resources for networking a Mac (running OS X) and a PC (running Vista) on a peer-to-peer lan network? I’m asking because I have a 4.75gb file on my Vista machine which I want to transfer to the Mac and it is too big to burn to DVD. I have turned…

  • Problems receiving calls with Truphone

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    Tom Raftery
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    I set up a Truphone account to try out with the Nokia E61 I have been using the last few days. Truphone gives you a US landline number when you sign up for an account with them (mine is 14259053151). Calls to this number are supposed to be routed to my mobile whenever I am…

  • FON need to improve their router firmware

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    Tom Raftery
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    FON have a nifty little idea (and some investment from Google, Skype and Index Ventures, if memory serves). Their idea is that if you use one of their wireless routers, you get a login which you can then use on any other FON owner’s wireless router. This gives you free wi-fi Internet access anywhere there…

  • Wireless Wednesday in Cork

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    I see Damien is chairing an event in the Rochestown Park Hotel on tomorrow at 6pm called Staying Competitive in the International Arena. The event has an interesting line-up of speakers including Pat Phelan of Roam4Free. If you have the time, I’d say it will be well worth dropping along.

  • Webaroo – selling the Internet?

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    A company called Webaroo are selling copies of the Internet on a hard drive according to Networkworld– why? Well, they say, it will be handy for people who don’t have access to an Internet connection. As Webaroo president Brad Husick explains: “Let’s say the HTML Web is 10 billion pages — it’s actually a little…

  • Fon Review

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been using a Fon router now for over a month. In case you are not aware of Fon – Fon is a company which promotes the sharing of wireless broadband. So, if you have internet access, you can buy a Fon router (for 25usd/eur) at the moment on the Fon site, when you…