Quaint (Taken with instagram)
Blossom is up and running (Taken with Instagram at Darts Farm)
How weird for the quay (Taken with instagram)
After 3 years of waiting … I finally am having my windscreen replaced - I feel emotional (Taken with Instagram at Costa Coffee)
That’s more like it :-) (Taken with Instagram at bostom tea party)
Peace love and coffee (Taken with Instagram at Coffee#1)
Bokeh on smartphone (Taken with instagram)
Lunch :-) (Taken with instagram)
Happy Easter bank holiday Monday (Taken with instagram)
Following a power cut some time ago, I came home to find my Linksys router had died :(
A budget restraint led me to a new Netgear WRN2000 which turned out to be nothing but misery so for 2012 I decided to invest more heavily and get some cutting edge networking router tech in the form of the Linksys E4200.
Good reviews although not 100% across the board, the Linksys had an appeal. From past experiences, Linksys generally tend to run the DD-WRT hacked firmware, providing geek features to the max, so the brand was a pull.
After getting it home and setup, my initial response was .. of shit what have I just blown all that cash on? But after some tweaking and researching, it is now up and running at full speed.
Some of the features I like are:
Able to create a separate Guest Wifi log in
Dual band running at both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
USB port with DNLA server built in (aka Network Attached Storage)
Looks very slick
I did think it had a Bit Torrent client built in but that is not the case. Also, I had BIG problems getting USB drives to register on the USB port, but if you re-mount the affected drive on your Mac/PC then delete the TwonkyMedia files, then start again, this should fix those issues.
Now I can keep my Mac/PC HDD free from media and stream all my content to my devices around the house.
Finally, with regard to DD-WRT, the firmware is only Work In Progress at this stage, to I will stick with the stock firmware at present - why fix it if it isn’t broke :D