Wifi and code cracking
Nov. 1st, 2012 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSomething of a busman's holiday, trying to sort out a way to extend wifi coverage to the ground floor using a Netgear WGR614 and an ethernet-over-power-line access point. After much fussing over the subnetting, caused a duff steer from the howto pater grabbed from the internet, we eventually fixed the problem by setting the modem side of the router to dynamic and using the wifi to forward DHCP requests to the primary router. Even so, I still wasn't convinced that the routers were dishing out the right default routes but by that point I'd reverted back to holiday mode, leaving pater to mop up the last few details.
Most of the rest of the afternoon was lost to my parents less than successful attempts to get my nephew to do his half-term English homework — to write a report of a non-fiction book about something he was interested in. Slightly better was my attempt to solve a primative substitution cypher using a combination of crossword skills and frequency analysis. Fortunately, before long, the boy realised that the first few words referred to the Babington Plot and the whole thing tumbled into place. But having foolishly demostrated my computer savvy while solving the puzzle, I then spent the rest of the day fending off requests to set up a minecraft server and trying to explain why the idea was basically a non-starter.
Most of the rest of the afternoon was lost to my parents less than successful attempts to get my nephew to do his half-term English homework — to write a report of a non-fiction book about something he was interested in. Slightly better was my attempt to solve a primative substitution cypher using a combination of crossword skills and frequency analysis. Fortunately, before long, the boy realised that the first few words referred to the Babington Plot and the whole thing tumbled into place. But having foolishly demostrated my computer savvy while solving the puzzle, I then spent the rest of the day fending off requests to set up a minecraft server and trying to explain why the idea was basically a non-starter.
