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Thinking about emergency power
Recently someone sent me a link to a video about creating a relatively inexpensive battery pack that recharges using solar panels. While I'm not sure I'd trust the way that it was made, in theory it sounds like a great way to deliver emergency power to someone in need. With more and more large scale natural disasters, being able to rapidly deploy emergency power is vital to helping people get back on their feet. While governments and companies are building ways to help a large number of people at once, I think the concept of having personal portable power for any emergency is something worth considering.
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Setting up QoS on the Edge Router Lite
When I started using the EdgeRouter Lite, I knew that it was quite powerful and could handle pretty much anything I threw at it. Last week I had to send a very large file to a co-worker, so I put it in Dropbox and soon saw Dropbox use pretty much 100% of my upstream bandwidth; I tried limiting the upstream bandwidth in Dropbox, but the setting failed to do anything. Someone tried to call us on our Ooma and I had trouble with the call, so I stopped the Dropbox upload and turned on the Network Link Conditioner on my Mac to limit the upload.
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Review: Fenix UC30 Flashlight
For many years, I've had a fascination with flashlights. Don't ask me why, but I've thought they were cool. Maybe it is because I camped as a Boy Scout and never had great light on the trips. Since I was a scout, the technology in flashlights has changed dramatically and made them much more powerful than they were years ago.
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Retiring my 5 GHz SSID
As many people know, the 5 GHz WiFi band is going to provide better performance and is less crowded than the 2.4 GHz band. I have always tried to get my devices on 5 GHz. Most WiFi access points/routers broadcast the same SSID for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz allowing devices that support both bands to pick which band it wants to use. Unfortunately the devices sometimes prefer the 2.4 GHz band. Apple seems to have acknowledged this shortcoming of devices by providing an option in the AirPort Extreme base station for the user to set a separate 5 GHz SSID.