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Another Wordland test Read More

A while back, I saw a project called zoomready that I thought might be a useful tool for watching a network connection (even though it was Win-only, and I’m a …

VSee Network Stability Test Read More

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Second Wordland post Read More

I’m often called upon by my neighbors to troubleshoot their crummy network connections. I already have good advice for solving bad latency caused by bufferbloat but I also hear, “My …

Playing with WiFi heatmaps Read More

I'm checking out Wordland. Let's see if this actually posts to my Random Neurons Firing site… Hokey pokey! It did! This is very cool. It seems to hit all the …

Testing out Wordland Read More

I really like the Crusader network test application for measuring network throughput and latency. It’s cross-platform and provides a useful reference for network measurements. But the macOS binary opens a …

Creating a macOS application bundle Read More

I wanted to create a macOS bundle for an application that I use frequently, and wanted it to have an attractive icon. I had a good PNG image, and knew …

Creating a macOS iconset (.icns) file Read More

I’ve been following the progress of QStudio – a SQL IDE that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s great for running SQL queries against a database. I haven’t used …

QStudio & PRQL – a pretty good match Read More

If you work much with OpenWrt, you likely have a pile of older routers that you’re no longer using. But what to do with them? You could pass them along …

Configure a “spare router” Read More

@SiemusS recently asked me to review the draft documentation for FQ_CoDel for OPNsense. The document turned into a fairly nice description of the FQ_CoDel algorithm. See https://github.com/opnsense/docs/blob/master/source/manual/how-tos/shaper_bufferbloat.rst

OPNsense Fights Bufferbloat Read More