Gordon's Tech

When I migrated from Mojave to Monterey I ran into the typical array of macOS upgrade issues -- including having to reinstall Monterey. Ther...

We bought a 3 unit Eero 6 mesh WiFi router . From early days we ran into unreliable video problems. Remote users would say our bandwidth was...

When I travel every bit of IT in our family starts to malfunction. On a recent trip this included Emily's emails, they were intermittent...

Seven years ago we switched from CenturyLink to Comcast/Xfinity . At the time I thought CenturyLink was kaput. Today we switched back; I'...

UPDATE : As of early May 2022 Google has relented and will allow continued personal use of legacy G Suite domains . You need to login to you...

In retrospect my AirPort Extreme was probably flaky for a while. It's hard to diagnose router failure issues, but my son complained his ...

I use a Synology NAS to backup our two MacBooks . I’ve been ignoring it for 4 years, but a recent hardware failure made me look into it. I...

Dreamhost writes about SPF: SPF overview – DreamHost … Mail servers that receive an email for delivery can check SPF by comparing the sen...

I wrote this one for Facebook friends - reposting here. The TidBITS review is excellent. — This is roughly how things work ... Someone i...

My Mac insists on connecting to my neighbors Comcast/XFINITY WiFi rather than my home wifi. The  usual recommendations  didn’t work. (Note, ...

Comcast sent me an email offering a modem upgrade that would enable higher speeds. I figured I’d have to do it sooner or later so I accepted...

Synology Cloud Station aka Cloud Station Drive stopped working reliably for me in El Capitan. That’s when I discovered there’s no uninstall...

Our Comcast promo rolloff happened today. Our 1st year rate with taxes, modem rental and hidden fees was $56/month. The post-promo rate was...

After my Synology NAS updated itself to version 6 one of my Time Machine backups stopped working. It might have been coincidental. Time Mach...

Looking back, 2009 was kind of a bad year. Somewhere around then we were in the tail end of the Great Recession, Google had turned Evil, and...

The AirPort Utility tries too hard to be friendly. It wants to do some fancy migration from an older device that’s running, but I’d already ...

I liked the ME918LL/A AirPort Extreme for 17 months. It covered most of our house with a single device and it was pretty reliable. Around 17...

The coffee shop’s WiFi was flailing. Periodically my MacBook popped up an xfinity wifi option. I vaguely remembered reading of this when I ...

Lifehacker’s guide to home file sharing was written in 2010 for Windows users. Excluding a traditional server/file share the options back t...

[jump to the update on this one, it’s not what I thought it was…] When I switched from CenturyLink to Comcast two months ago  my “boost” sp...