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Branson’s Nantucket free Wi-Fi review

Wednesday, 2013.03.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I am staying at Branson’s Nantucket a few days this week so I have had a good chance to test their free WiFi. Connecting, Signal Strength The wifi is free in all the units and I received simple login instructions and password upon check-in. Connecting was easy, I had no problems and overall the wifi signal quality is excellent: (each unit has its own secure encrypted connection/router/SSID, the lower strength signals are other units) Both my wife and I were

WN1000RP default username and password [SOLVED]

Wednesday, 2013.03.13 J.D. H. 2 comments

While setting up the WN1000RP to extend a wifi network, I was surprised to encounter a password prompt: The included manual makes no mention of a username or password. So after a bit of trial and error I determined that the username is: admin and the password is: password (both user name and password are lower case) Now I am happily testing out the WN1000RP 🙂 Top Search Terms:netgear wn1000rp authentication required (14)wn1000rp password (14)netgear wn1000rp password (9)authentication required netgear

What ISPs are part of the Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme? [answer]

Wednesday, 2013.03.13 J.D. H. 2 comments

I was pleasantly surprised to read this: [M]any people assume that all ISPs are part of the agreement. However, this is certainly not the case. In fact, only five Internet providers have agreed to send out warnings to their customers. In alphabetical order these are AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. via Has Your ISP Joined the US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme? | TorrentFreak. I am of the opinion that an internet service provider’s job is not to monitor their users

Winona MO CenturyLink internet speed test results

Wednesday, 2013.03.06 J.D. H. Leave a comment

For people comparing rural DSL to Exede, here are some DSL results from Winona MO: Test Date: Mar 6, 2013 12:41:29 pm Location: Winona, MO Server: Springfield, MO Download: 1207 kbps Upload: 410 kbps Ping: 39 ms External IP: 173.202.176.245 Internal IP: 192.168.0.108 Latitude: 36.99297 Longitude: -91.33641 Overall these results leave quite a bit to be desired, however, CenturyLink does not seem to impose a monthly bandwidth cap (so NetFlix works okay). Therefore, overall rating of 3/5 stars. Top Search

Daily Exede speedtest.net results

Thursday, 2013.02.28 J.D. H. 3 comments

Here are some daily Exede internet speedtest results, I will continue periodically posting results to this same page. Please be aware that these are not necessarily ‘real world’ results… I generally find that real world raw downloads and uploads surpass these results. However, this at least gives you something to compare to other internet services! 🙂 Best regards, -JD March 17th 8:09AM CST, during another downpour of rain, Windows 7 with Chrome web browser: I was very impressed with this

Any laptops powered by USB? [yes, sort of]

Wednesday, 2013.02.20 J.D. H. 2 comments

Q. Hello,I am something of a minimalist when it comes to traveling. Therefore I would like to standardize on one charger for my gadgets: USB charging works for everything except my laptop. Do you now of any any laptops that can be powered by USB? –R.S. A. Hi R.S., Yes there are a few laptops that use USB for charging… however, almost all of them are of the convertible tablet/laptop type. Here is a prime example: Lenovo IdeaPad K3 Lynx

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Propane generator available at Lowe’s

Wednesday, 2013.02.20 J.D. H. Leave a comment

A big winter storm is headed this way and as such the local Lowe’s was almost sold out of generators! I found this out while picking up some flooring at the service counter. Sitting on a cart near the counter was a pretty cool portable propane generator, I will let the photos speak for themselves: I had no need of a generator as our solar panels at home were getting plenty of sunlight and our batteries were fully charged, woot.

How to cancel/delete Gilt/Jetsetter account! [SOLVED]

Wednesday, 2013.02.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Are you getting oodles of spam from Gilt and their affiliated websites? If so, here are the instructions for how to cancel your ‘membership’ to their myriad sites: To cancel your Gilt Groupe membership, please send us an email using the button on our support page with your request and we will deactivate your account. If you choose to deactivate your account, it will deactivate your login credentials on all of Gilt Groupe’s related properties including Gilt, Gilt City, Gilt