Jeff Hagins

Home Internet Router Problems?

I've been fighting a problem with my home Internet router/wireless access point for about a YEAR now. I'd replaced every piece of equipment that I have (router, switch) to no avail. At least once a day the router AND cable modem would "lock-up" and I would have to cycle power on both of them to get things going again. After a year this had become frustrating to say the least.

The cable guy told me that this is a known compatibility issue between Linksys routers and their equipment. This of course was after I had replaced my OLD Linksys router with a NEW Linksys router in an attempt to solve the problem. Thanks Linksys.

I went so far as to plug a switch in between the router and the modem and run Netmon (Network monitor app from MSFT) to see what was going on when the lock-up occured. What I saw was thousands of ARP requests. Without going into what that means, I was able to then search the Internet for that symptom, and not only did I find someone with the same problem, I found the solution. I've now been running for 4 days without ANY problems.

The solution was to turn my Linksys router into a Linksys router running Open Source router software from DD-WRT.

DD-WRT is an open source community that provides software that you can use to REPLACE the manufacturers software on your router. While this is NOT a step for the faint hearted (because if you screw it up you will be buying a new router), it fixed my problem and I'm now a HUGE fan of the DD-WRT community!

If you are having router problems that you can't figure out -- consider DD-WRT!

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“If you aren't using CloudProfile Email Publishing, You Should be!”

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I Love Real-time Social Monitoring!

You gotta love the ability to use Twitter to monitor the status of various web sites and services. Wondering if Facebook is up or down? Wondering if GoToMeeting is up or down? Just do a search on Twitter!

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Amount of Information Online

Four years ago, an IBM study predicted that the amount of "digital information" would double every 11 hours by the year 2010. Then in 2008, IDC issued their own prediction that was a bit more measured - predicting that the amount of digital information in 2011 would be 10 times the size it was in 2006. No matter which is true, the amount of information online is growing at a staggering rate, and for most of us that means a great deal of difficulty in sorting out the relevant information from the noise. Going forward, it seems likely that both businesses and individuals will require automated search agents that search the Internet, or subscribe to certain types of information feeds, filter for relevance, and present back to their user only the information that the user really needs !

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New Email Publishing for CloudProfile

We have always supported email publishing, but as of today we are now allowing: * Photo attachments to a post * Multiple Photo attachments to a post We will be adding many new email publishing features in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

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