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Comodo Easy VPN is a fast, free Hamachi alternative for Windows

November 11, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad writes how he previously used a combination of Hamachi and UltraVNC for hassle-free remote support setups. At the time (again, this was a long time ago), Hamachi had a lot of reliability and speed issues – so he ended up switching to TeamViewer. That is until Lee discovered Comodo’s free [...]

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Slow Bandwidth? Remove Unused Protocols to Improve Speed

November 10, 2009
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Ken over at The Network Zone writes
I’m always looking for easy and effective ways to improve network performance. When I’m unhappy with network performance I try removing unused protocols to help lower traffic and increase network speed.  To give this one a try, check the default network protocol settings used when installing operating systems and [...]

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20+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Sysadmins

November 6, 2009
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The great folks over at Packet Life opened up their Library and provided 24 Cheat Sheets that all Sysadmins could appreciate. They kindly break the cheat sheets into categories (and in separate PDFs) that include:

Protocols
Applications
Reference
Syntax
Technologies
Misc.

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