And its time for another networking club meeting. To start, I will remind everybody of the networking club rules: If you are the last one to leave, remember to hide a raisin underneath the welcome mat. Easy enough. Ok, let’s get started. Last time we met, we were talking about how networking has a bunch …
Author: Jacob Clarity
Networking – The Layer Model
Hi there kids, welcome to networking club. Here are the rules: Don’t talk about fight club. Annnnd that’s it. Ok, let’s get started then. So you realized you don’t know how dem old internet tube highways things actually work, and you thought you would get some learnings. You have come to the right place. This …
Firewalls are tricky sometimes
Computer networking. Sometimes I think I understand it all, then I realize there was yet another thing I hadn’t learned yet. This was one of those times. I was swapping out somebody’s router with a brand-new, shiny one – specifically, the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X. I had a number of missteps while setting up this router, …
Adventures with Verizon Phone Support
Sometimes, I call tech support. By the time I call tech support it is usually my last option, because in my experience tech support isn’t great – at least when you don’t have some sort of dedicated support contract. Maybe you call and sit in a queue for 30 minutes, or maybe you call and …
20,000 Emails
You know that feeling you get when you receive 20,000 emails in an hour? I don’t. In fact, I don’t know if I have received 20,000 emails in total. What I do know is that last week, somebody received 20,000 emails in the course of an hour. Then, they asked me to fix it. And …