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How to blog, win friends and influence people...

I was very fortunate to receive an award for my blog recently from the Cisco-sponsored IT Blog Awards . I also recently remembered an article I wrote quite some time ago for publication elsewhere that never made it to the presses. I thought it would be kind of appropriate to publish it myself to share what I've learned over the past 9 years or so of blogging. It will hopefully encourage others to sharpen their virtual pencils, helping them to learn, get their name "out there" and contribute to the wider community. Apologies for the length of the article, but I can't help myself when it comes to detail...sorry!   I was originally motivated to set up my own blog in 2011 after reading the articles of people like Andrew Von Nagy, Devin Akin and Keith Parsons. I was in awe of their depth of knowledge, and the fact they were performing such a valuable altruistic act, freely sharing their valuable knowledge and content. I was also starting to gain more real-w

My favourite WinFi features

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Ealier this year myself and a few other Wi-Fi pros were lucky enough to be asked to provide some input to a new Wi-Fi scanner application being created by Helge Keck . He called the tool "WinFi" and has now released as a free tool for Windows 10. WinFi is a feature-packed application that has many pro-level functions that have quickly made it the Wi-Fi scanner of choice on Windows for many wireless LAN pros. I thought I'd take a few minutes to run through the operation of WinFi and highlight some of my favourite advanced features that you may not have seen yet within the application by creating the video below:   References Application home page Video Link Helge Keck on Twitter

Using the WLANPi as a wireless serial console

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One lesser-known feature we added to the WLANPi image in v1.7 is Wi-Fi console that provides a wireless serial console. As this isn't too widely known, I thought I'd put a video together about it.  The Wi-Fi console feature allows you to hook up a serial cable to the serial port of a piece of nework equipment, then get your WLANPi to broadcast out an SSID you can join from a nearby location. You can then fire up terminal emulation software on your laptop and access the serial port on the nework equipment from a more comfortable location. Note this is a standard part of the WLANPi image since v1.7 - you do not need to install any additional packages, just follow the instructions in this video to flip your WLANPi in to Wi-Fi console mode. References YouTube Video GitHub repo & further information