Eric Geier

Don’t throw out your old 802.11g gear just yet. Though 802.11n provides faster speeds and longer range, your aged legacy equipment can still serve a purpose. As we’ll discuss in this tutorial, old wireless routers can be turned into access points (APs); they can help increase the Wi-Fi footprint even more. Plus they might even help increase […]

If you’re a frequent traveler you probably can’t do without Wi-Fi hotspots. Though we have smart phones and blackberries, a good Wi-Fi connection lets us browse and communicate from the laptop. However, wireless networking standards and gear wasn’t specifically created with public applications in mind. Thus, as you may know too well, there are many […]

When I discuss Wi-Fi security, I try to show an example of what a Wi-Fi eavesdropper or hacker could see from an unencrypted wireless network. This way you can imagine what someone from the parking lot or nearby can see of the data traveling between you and the access point (AP). The underlying reason is […]

IT certifications can help you gain an understanding of a tech topic and express your expertise to employers and colleagues. This is especially true when you’re new to the IT world. However, there’s no doubt that their value is controversial. Many say they aren’t worth the money and time because they won’t help you get […]

IT certifications can help you gain an understanding of a tech topic and express your expertise to employers and colleagues. This is especially true when you’re new to the IT world. However, there’s no doubt that their value is controversial. Many say they aren’t worth the money and time because they won’t help you get […]

Web-based email providers, like Google’s Gmail, let you check and send messages on any computer in the world via the web browser. You can sign in at home, work, school, or anywhere, without having to install or configure an email client, such as Outlook or Thunderbird. The downside is that you must be online the […]

Remote desktop connections enable access to a computer’s desktop, programs, and files from other computers, either in the next room or around the world. Everything appears on the remote computer just as it does when sitting in front of the host computer. Configuring computers to accept these connections is simple—just click a checkbox. Then to […]

Last month, we reviewed a RADIUS server targeted toward the SMB market for its 802.1X authentication capabilities, for aid in securing wireless networks with WPA/WPA2-Enterprise encryption. Now we have reviewed another server, ClearBox Enterprise RADIUS Server 2.3 from XPerience Technologies. This solution caught our eye due to its low price point and seemingly high feature […]

In Part I of this two-part tutorial we discovered options on remoting between Linux and Windows machines. Plus we setup the VNC solution on each platform. Now we’ll continue by configuring our router for connections over the Internet. Additionally, we’ll see how to encrypt the connections and how to remote into the native display. Let’s […]

Do you use both Windows and Linux? Wish you could remote into Windows from Linux (Ubuntu or other distributions) or into Linux from Windows? Well, you can. Just like when using a Remote Desktop Connection between Microsoft platforms (or remoting between Linux machines), you can bring up the desktop of the other platform. You can […]