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Five remote access tools for Android
When all you have at your disposal is a smart phone or tablet, the tools you choose for remote access can really make your day much easier.
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Wireshark makes locating bandwidth issues easy
When a small business experiences network bottlenecks, the best troubleshooting tool for the job is Wireshark, according to Jack Wallen.
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Five lesser known less expensive VPN clients
Selecting the right VPN client for your users and your infrastructure is crucial to a successful deployment.
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Get LAN-based interoffice secure chat with BeeBEEP
SMBs looking for an internal chat solution should check out BeeBEEP. Learn how easy it is to use this interoffice, LAN-based secure chat tool.
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Two apps for retrieving mobile network information
Jack Wallen takes a look at IP Info and Network Info II, two free Android apps that put mobile networking information quickly at your fingertips.
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Set up Samba to serve as a domain controller
Samba can serve as an NT4-style domain controller. Jack Wallen shows how to do this on a Ubuntu Server 11.04 machine.
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Five free network monitoring tools
Among the wide array of network and system monitors, you'll find several that do what the pricier tools do -- for free.
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DIY: Extend your wireless range on the cheap with a second wireless access point
If your business needs to extend its wireless range but doesn't have the budget for a complex setup, Jack Wallen has the solution for you.
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DIY: Limiting IP addresses on routers
Jack Wallen answers a reader's question about configuring a Wi-Fi router to set up a whitelist or a blacklist.
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DIY: Get top-quality open source security tools in one distro
Once you use the open source Network Security Toolkit distribution, Jack Wallen predicts you'll wonder how you ever did without it.