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      <title>Why two speed tests on the same link disagree</title>
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      <description>Header overhead, TCP slow start, percentile arithmetic and per-IP rate limits: four reasons two honest tools disagree, and which one to believe.</description>
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      <title>Choosing a Wi-Fi channel that actually helps</title>
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      <description>How to read a channel occupancy chart, why 1-6-11 is still the answer on 2.4 GHz, and why every Android Wi-Fi analyser makes you press a button.</description>
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      <title>IP camera default ports, and why a port is not a brand</title>
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      <description>The ports each camera vendor ships with, what each one is actually for, and why a scanner should never print a brand name beside a port number.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Finding an IP camera on a network you have never seen</title>
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      <description>Four ways a device announces itself on a LAN, which of them Android can actually use, and the order to try them in when nobody can tell you the address.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>What SSID, BSSID, channel, band and dBm each mean, why one network can have six BSSIDs, and how to read −67 dBm without guessing.</description>
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      <description>The handshake, why a TCP port scan gives a straight answer and a UDP one mostly cannot, and why an honest scanner avoids the word &quot;closed&quot;.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What DNS actually does, and when it is lying</title>
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      <description>Recursion, record types, TTL, and why a name that does not exist is a different finding from one that exists with nothing behind it.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Subnet masks and prefixes, why 192.168.x.x is not an internet address, and the reason your phone is holding three IPv6 addresses at once.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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