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Fon lets you download without your computer

I don’t know if you guys know about the Fon router, I have personally used one for ages. It is a community based project, the thinking is that a lot of people buy fon routers, and with the router you get a passcode. If you’re anywhere in the world and you find a Fon router, [...]

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Categories: Hardware, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

uTorrent Port Checker Online

Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]

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Categories: P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Simple Port Forwarding

Inexperienced computer users are usually having troubles understanding the port forwarding concept. Most of them hear about port forwarding in gaming or P2P forums where this is usually discussed when troubleshooting connections.
Simple Port Forwarding is a portable software that tries to lessen the knowledge that is needed to configure port forwarding in a computer network. [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

UPNP Port Mapper

Universal Plug And Play was designed to simplify the connection between two devices in a computer network. Most users probably come into touch with UPNP when they start configuring their router for the first time. Most modern routers support UPNP which admittedly has one major flaw. UPNP does not support authentication which means that the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 14th, 2008
  • Comments: None

Netgear WGR614L Open Source Wireless-G Router

Netgear decided to hop onto the Open-Source bandwagon by developing a wireless router that would take user created firmwares without complaints, heck that was developed just for this purposes. I covered some of those firmwares in the past that can be applied to several non-Open-Source routers as well. The difference is that if something goes [...]

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Categories: Hardware

Where’s that darn router password?

I think this has happened to many of us before. There are as many passwords and user names to routers as stars in the sky and even if you’ve used one before, you’ll ask: “is it admin – admin, or admin – password, or user – admin?”
Now you can stop wondering, since Routerpasswords has all [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Knowledge

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 3rd, 2007
  • Comments: None

Port Forwarding Tester

You might have encountered the term Port Forwarding when configuring bittorrent on your computer or analyzing slow or none existing traffic with bittorrent. One of the first answers of those helpful support guys in all forums is always check Port Forwarding, but what the heck is it ?

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Categories: Security, The Web

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