AT&T U-verse 2wire Gateway and DD-WRT Router in DMZ Mode…

We’ve recently upgraded our ISP to AT&T U-verse. With this switch AT&T pro­vided a 2wire gate­way. So far the ser­vice has been excel­lent. Recently we setup a live chat sup­port fea­ture on the web­site, as you can see to the right. With this fea­ture we also plan to inte­grate a remote desk­top fea­ture, to allow us to pro­vide our clients with live and instant support.

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Sep 04, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks | 17 Comments »

What’s a good Anti-Virus to use?

We wrote this post in response to a com­ment on another post. We most often rec­om­mend Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm. Our choices are based on prod­ucts that are effi­cient in pre­vent­ing virus infec­tions, semi trans­par­ent, unob­tru­sive, and user friendly. And FYI. if you see the image below when copy­ing files, you may have a virus.

Avast free and Avast Pro:

Avast pro­vides a free Anti-Virus, how­ever we found it to be a lit­tle intru­sive and irri­tat­ing. Avast seems to pester its free users with con­stant pops and related to their paid product.

Their paid prod­uct how­ever is a dream to use. The only time Avast Pro will ever pester you or slow your flow of work and surf­ing, is if you encounter a mali­cious script from a web­page, down­load mali­cious soft­ware, a viruses, or any other prob­lem you may have.

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Jun 25, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave A Comment »

The TredShed’s Got Wireless…….

We were asked recently by the owner of Tred­Shed, Craig, to recon­fig­ure their net­work. They also wanted to add wire­less capa­bil­ity, and update all their com­put­ers. The first thing we do when set­ting up a new net­work is to eval­u­ate the exist­ing hard­ware. After an eval­u­a­tion we found that their main router was caus­ing inter­mit­tent prob­lems. Another issue was that their last IT guy had lim­ited net­work­ing expe­ri­ence and assigned their machines a seem­ingly ran­dom array of IP addresses, with a totally unnec­es­sary, and con­fus­ing sta­tic IP address setup. Because of this setup they were unable to add or move machines to their liking.

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Mar 08, 2007 | Computer Repair and Networks | Leave A Comment »