TP-Link has been on the ball for me lately, I’m running a couple of Deco pucks for mesh wifi in my house, and it works a dream. Slightly weird to start with, as the web interface is crippled, setup happens through an app, but once you’re over that adjustment, it works well.
The other router that I keep seeing being suggested for techie’s is the Ubiquity Dream Machine. It’s quite expensive, but I’ve never heard anyone say anything less than that it changed their lives with regards to their home network.
WinBox for Mikrotik devices is a decent GUI. You get an awful lot of power with these and need to know your networking. I personally won’t touch Ubiquiti again. They went all data collection on everyone.
I have two Mikrotik devices, one is a 10/100 router that I got for cheap to test and play around with, the other is a gigabit router I got from my ISP. The TP-link pucks are working well enough that I haven’t even set the Mikrotik router up. When I redo (read: hardwire) my house’s network, I’ll set up the Mikrotik up stream of the TP-link. Be warned, though, anyone reading, Mikrotiks are really powerful, but the interface is difficult, and if you don’t like getting yourself neck deep in network packets, its not for you.
mm depends a bit on some things, if it is a local user account, you could get away with using a boot cd that has password resetting software, I use DLC Boot Disc, ( can be burned to a DVD or a USB) but there are various others.
If it is a domain account you will have to reset the password via the server.
If you have physical access to the machine, you need a recovery cd (or just a copy of win 7 to be able to get to the “install/setup” area).
Theres a few google forums out there ill edit them in when i find them, but the gist is this:
you boot with the recovery disk, go into a cmd prompt, change the ease of access exe with cmd executable (will come in handy in a moment), remembering to backup the original ease of access exe.
then boot into windows normaly, go to ease of access in the corner, OH MY cmd prompt just magically appeared. you then enable the built in administrator account, reboot the machine and login with that. then you can reset the pw
ALTERNATIVELY, if you have a boot disc like pc unlocker or ophcrack, it can remove passwords or brute force them, if its win 7 or xp. I carry those 2 around with me for occasions such as this
If I were to hazard a guess, Apple has decided WPA2 isn’t good enough anymore, and wants to move their users over WPA3, and obviously, you should spend money on new things
For some reason you are using WPA to authenticate to your wifi. All modern wifi devices these days support WPA2.
See if your Router has WPA2 PSK, WPA2 Pre-Shared Key or WPA2 Personal. These are all just names for the same thing and exclude the weaker WPA Authentication Method. WPA Encryption may be on a different screen where you set your password, but also set it to AES.
Have a cable handy in case you loose connection to your router over wifi
Ok weird one. . . . mouse cursor is spinning/flashing but only in word and outlook. This is only happening for one of the guys in the office. And I cant make it stop
does it happen in any other office program? might want to run a repair in control panel on office installation to see if it fixes it, usually spinning/flashing is an indicator that something is happening/loading/processing, so office might be bugging out.
Thanks for the help!
