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    Question Wi-Fi Channels and Frequency Bands basics

    Ok, I'm going to read it trying to make sense of it since I have no basics about this stuff. Meanwhile, could you please answer my question? Thanks
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    Question Wi-Fi Channels and Frequency Bands basics

    Hi, I have been watching videos about WiFi technology lately to at least get the basics of it. In particular this youtube video: wifi channel from min: 7:25, he says, "..the key thing in 2.4 Ghz is to know that the channels are spaced 5 Mhz apart so.." I think I got this point more or less...
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    Question Are Wifi security camera safe?

    Understood. Thanks
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    Question Are Wifi security camera safe?

    Hi everyone, Since it would be a pain to bring Ethernet cables to the place there are meant to, I am going to buy a couple of security wifi cameras, but I read that wifi cameras can be knocked out. How exactly? Thanks
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    Question DEBIAN 12 Plasma VS MINT LMDE 6

    Core 2 Duo, 3GB (or 4?) RAM. Windows 10 is running decently on it at the moment, in spite of its HDD. So I am going to install Debian or Mint in dual boot with Windows.
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    Question DEBIAN 12 Plasma VS MINT LMDE 6

    Hi, Straight question: DEBIAN 12 KDE plasma VS new MINT LMDE 6 for one of my old laptops. Please help me make up my mind. Thanks
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    Question Sending Frames to Twisted Pair

    I thought that. It is the reason why I decided to ask it elsewhere Ok, it was the answer I expected. Thanks
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    Question Sending Frames to Twisted Pair

    Hi, I was following a thread about how exactly frames are sending to the Twisted pairs of a CATe cable via a 1000 BASE T Transmission. Someone posted this image too: What it is says sounds a bit incosistent to me. The last part of the text says: "Since the information travels simultaneously...
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    Question Is it normal to have the SSDP protocol running on my LAN ?

    Ok, thanks. I'd like to figure out which service/program does multicast now
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    Question Is it normal to have the SSDP protocol running on my LAN ?

    https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/239.255.255.250 Thanks
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    Question Is it normal to have the SSDP protocol running on my LAN ?

    hi, I installed Ntopng as a docker container in my server. I see that the SSDP is active. I didn't even know that such a SSDP protocol was a thing, so I looked it up. It seems to be useful to discover devices on our own LAN automatically. So, Is it nomal having the SSDP protocol running on my...
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    [SOLVED] Recommended switch/router for a failover setup.

    I too once set failover on a pfSense machine, and it worked really well.
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    [SOLVED] Folders not refreshing automatically in Windows 10

    hi A strange and annoying issue with Windows 10 over the last few days, maybe since I got the last Windows updates. Every time I change something in a folder, be it editing the name of another folder in it, moving a file elsewhere, or deleting it, I need to refresh (F5) the view to see the...
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    [SOLVED] I need to restart a service each time to make it work

    What is this? file /lib/systemd/system/dynuiuc.service [Unit] Description=Dynu IP update client daemon [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/dynuiuc.pid ExecStart=/usr/bin/dynuiuc --conf_file /etc/dynuiuc/dynuiuc.conf --log_file /var/log/dynuiuc.log --pid_file /run/dynuiuc.pid --daemon...