Category: Networking

So, one lonely night I noticed that when using the Narwhal Reddit App with PLDT that any Redgifs content takes an incredibly long time to load. We’re talking 2-3 min minutes to load like a 10mb gif. I did a bunch of testing by routing my iPhone traffic through my Macbook and checking the requests […]

Are you finding that your downloads behave strange from certain websites? Like, the download is still active but it seems to pause over and over again? Or has a Stop/Start pattern? Try disabling UDP Flood Defence on your routers Firewall! On a Draytek Vigor, this is under Firewall > Defence Setup. You can also just […]

If you are using a TP-Link TL-R480T+ load balancing router and have been adding in Policy Routing rules only to find out that they don’t work, then you need to go into the Link Backup page and disable any fail over settings you have. A bit of a weird one, but it is the case […]

I’ll open with this; chances are if you are reading this from a Sky Cable Philippines Broadband connection then it probably took well over a minute to load the page, that’s if the page even opened at all! The reason for this is that this website is hosted in the UK and to connect from […]

I’m sat in Suvarnabhumi airport in Thailand waiting for a delayed flight (don’t you just love air travel?) and I needed to get my internet fix. I tried a few access points before giving up and opting for the paid Wifi service which is available throughout the airport. As i was signing up i noticed […]