Category Archives: Networking

Localization help requested

I'm a collaborator on a WiFi Heatmap project (see https://github.com/hnykda/wifi-heatmapper). It lets you measure the wifi signal strength at various points around your house to see where it's weak. The problem: Windows localizes the "netsh wlan show interfaces" output that displays the wifi signal strength (and other information). wifi-heatmapper has a set of localization files

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Enable Jetpack JSON API

I solved a problem posting images using wordland.social. To do so, I used a kind of "random walk" to get there, so I didn't remember which of several things I did that made it work. I subsequently went back and found how to do it "officially". To enable the JSON API within Jetpack: Go to

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Testing Wordland.social…

I'm testing the Wordland Baseline theme created by Scott Hanson. This post has a title, and follows several no-title posts. It occurs to me that it might be nice to group consecutive no-title posts under a single heading of the form Date by Author. But I'm not certain about that….

Dave Täht for Postel Service Award

I posted this nomination for the John B. Postel Service Award today… I strongly recommend Dave Täht for the Postel Service Award. Regrettably, this must be posthumous. I first learned about Dave when I stumbled on his post talking about experiments with the CeroWRT software to decrease latency in home routers. This must have been

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All the “reasons” that bufferbloat isn’t a problem

As we take a shot at opening people’s eyes to bufferbloat, we should know some of the “objections” we’ll run up against. Even though there’s terrific technical data to back up our research, people seem especially resistant to thinking that bufferbloat might affect their network, even when they’re seeing problems that sound exactly like bufferbloat

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