<div dir="ltr">Great talk, Khalid! I enjoyed that. You got me thinking about a few changes I could make to my own openWRT router.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 August 2014 00:31, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For those who want to review the slides, you can download the PDF of the presentation from here<br>
<br><a href="http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/presentation-openwrt-kwlug-august-2014.html" target="_blank">http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/presentation-openwrt-kwlug-august-2014.html</a><br>
<br></div>In that link, you will also find a link to where you can download wrtbwmon (WRT Bandwidth Monitor).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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It's August, which for many of us means it's time to head off to the<br>
cottage. Maybe back in the 1950s you could go to the cottage without<br>
your wifi, but these days canoeing without your laptop or telling<br>
ghost stories without your email is gauche. But now it is 2007, and<br>
mobile broadband is not ubiquitous yet, so you need a wireless router.<br>
Enter the trusty Linksys WRT54GL...<br>
<br>
Oh wait. It's not 2007. It's 2014, and even though you probably use<br>
your phone to check email[0] on your phone, you might well have a<br>
broadband connection someplace, and in 2014 the trusty old WRT54GL is<br>
not cutting it. Now the wireless-N standard is ubiquitous[1], and<br>
people have gigabit networks at home. Sure, some people just buy<br>
whatever router is on sale at the local computer store[2], and use the<br>
stock firmware to distribute their network signal. But what fun is<br>
that? You can't run an OpenVPN endpoint or Asterisk server on stock<br>
firmware. If you haven't noticed, though, wireless routers are<br>
confusing! Some routers don't work well with third-party firmware.<br>
Some routers do work well until the manufacturer changes the revision<br>
and switches all the router internals? Where do you turn if you want a<br>
solid, flashable router that supports modern standards?<br>
<br>
You turn to Khalid Baheyeldin, that's who. He went through the odyssey<br>
of finding a router that would work well with the OpenWRT firmware in<br>
2014. Furthermore, he knows how to use his router to track the things<br>
those of us with bandwidth caps care about: which devices are sucking<br>
up the data? How can you see what processes are active at any given<br>
time? Are there pretty graphs? In this presentation Khalid will tell<br>
us all this and more. This presentation will start at 7pm.<br>
<br>
In other news, Software Freedom Day organizing is coming along.<br>
This event will be held on Sept 20, from 10am-4pm. There will be<br>
workshops on the Scratch programming language, installing security and<br>
privacy tools in the post-Snowden era, and building your own Linux<br>
machine. There are also plenty of presentations lined up, including<br>
sessions on making a living with FLOSS and on the Open Access<br>
publishing movement. You can find out more about the day at<br>
<a href="http://kwlug.org/sfd" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/sfd</a> , and you can offer to volunteer by contacting<br>
me off-list. (We especially need volunteers to staff our installfest,<br>
and to help with publicity.)<br>
<br>
And that's it. Now I need a vacation, but there is no rest for the<br>
wicked, so attending a KWLUG meeting makes for a pretty good<br>
substitute. Here is the location info:<br>
<br>
St John's Kitchen<br>
97 Victoria Street North<br>
(at the corner of Victoria and Weber)<br>
Kitchener<br>
<br>
Park your campers in the Worth A Second Look parking lot. Park your<br>
touring bicycle along the side of the building. Find our<br>
sunny destination at <a href="http://kwlug.org/sjk" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/sjk</a> .<br>
<br>
- Paul<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
BONUS: Mean-spirited footnotes, courtesy of my inner critic:<br>
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[0] Email? Who uses email?<br>
[1] Ain't you ever heard of 802.11ac, grandpa?<br>
[2] Local computer store? It's 2014! Bricks and mortar are so 20th century!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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--<br>
<a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br>
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