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An upgrade to Ubiquiti
I’ve been _extremely_ impressed with the quality of Engenius‘ products, most specifically the EOC-2610. For the 2 years that I’ve had my two units in service, I’ve had very little issue with them....
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Back to an old hobby
I’m working more and more with wireless equipment at work these days, and I’ve found that it’s once again sparked my interest in an old hobby – Amatuer Radio. I worked in commercial radio for eight...
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A New MediaCenter and how HDMI to RCA does and doesn’t work.
I’ve always referred to Ubuntu as “the bridge that let the Windows idiots into the Linux world.” Ubuntu has done a wonderful job with their distro of Linux, but for some reason it seems to be the place...
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Using ALSA plugins to stop scaring the cats.
The XMBCbuntu ZBOX server has really changed things in my house. It’s become hard to justify the $50+ cable bill seeing as how I only watch one television show when it originally airs (Breaking Bad)....
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Growing An Olive Router in a VirtualBox Environment
In the last few days, I’ve been working to build up my home networking lab. I’m using a fairly typical setup nowadays — real Layer 3 switches connected to a host machine that runs GNS3 as well as...
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GNS3 Crowdfunder
GNS3 – this thing rocks. If you’ve not had the chance to contribute to the GNS3 crowdfunding event, I strongly encourage you to do so. The GNS3 team is working on version 1.o, and as you’ll see on...
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Cisco Switch and Route Completed!
I recently took my CCNP Switch Exam (642-813), passing on my first attempt. While I mostly used GNS3/dynamips to simulate routers for my CCNP Route Exam (642-902), I actually put together physical...
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Wireless Iperf Graphing
About a year ago, we were doing some wireless throughput/interference testing at the office to acclamate ourselves to the wireless world. Most importantly, we were trying to answer the question “Why...
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Wireless Iperf Graphing – Part Two
After dusting off the old source for my previous post, I started realizing one of the main limitations to Ubiquiperf — the results aren’t displayed real-time. If they were, one could easily move...
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The Sunset on Lambs Gap
A couple of months ago, I started to notice a few issues when watching YouTube videos at my home. It seemed that the videos were taking longer to buffer, and a quick check of my Ubiquiti NanoBridge M5...
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StarTech PEX10000SFP and locating modules in the Linux source.
A friend contacted me recently with issues getting a new StarTech PCIe card with SFP+ slot working. He had hoped the card would work out of the box… but sometimes that doesn’t happen. Our test subject:...
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GNS3 – CPLUG presentation from 9/8/2015
Slides from 9/8/2015 It had been a while since I’ve attended a Central Pennsylvania Linux Users Group meeting. So why not jump in feet first with a demonstration of the capabilities of the Graphical...
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BraindeadProjects.com is BACK!
In November of 2015 (two months after my last post to this site), I opted to leave the Internet Service Provider world and attempt something new – the world of Enterprise Networking. Who needs Visio?...
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Evaluating the world of WAN link-load-balancing (SD-WAN)
It is probably obvious from the postings I’ve made here at BraindeadProjects that my home is nothing more than a giant networking lab. When I wanted to learn how GPON worked, I prepped my “lab” by...
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The AntStudio 54
I’ve been fascinated with insects since I was in elementary school and had the opportunity to visit a bee farm. The descriptions of how bees worked together along with seeing a hive behind glass has...
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