I tried launching a Windows XP guest using VirtualBox (a free virtualisation software), and found myself in a copy of Windows without network connectivity. It was a trying problem that took me forever to figure out, but I managed to solve this problem by using the Intel network driver instead of the default PCnet-FAST III [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 11, 2010
Following up on my previous post on getting the setting for Starhub 3G APN settings, I got an Android phone with Singtel, and had to play around with the APN settings. If you need the APN settings for Singtel 3G network, then these will work. You can use it in case you’ve loaded a new [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I run a virtualised copy of Windows XP with VirtualBox, and one thing that I couldn’t get running was the network adapter, or ethernet controller. There’s a free Windows program that helps you with this problem though: Everest. Download and install Everest, and it should tell you the manufacturer and model number of your card [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
My old Linksys WRT54G finally gave out after 3 years, and I went to purchase another Linksys router, since I had no problems with its old one. The new Linksys product range meant that I couldn’t get the WRT54G anymore, but there was the sleek black WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router instead. Like its predecessor, it [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
It’s possible to buy a wireless router, and share your 3G mobile broadband connection. This is great for people on the move and need to share an 3G internet connection. It’s also great if you have a small office or a small network setup, and want an ad-hoc network, or want a backup to your [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
So I switched from cable to ADSL, but didn’t check if my wireless router could work out of the box. Well, it turned out that it could because I could surf the Internet just fine, or so I thought. By not changing the settings to accomodate the ADSL modem, there was a weird phenomenon happening [...]
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