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Samuel Barrett is a Student studying Business Studies, Music and Music Technology. In his spare time he enjoys photography, playing sax and tinkering with technology/open source software. He setup this blog to communicate his discoveries with the outside world!

La Fonera

Posted: August 7th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Technology | No Comments »

The discounted La Fonera Routers are still available!

The discounted cost for the La Fonera+  is $/€19.95 (Shipping NOT included) to request a discount voucher please fill out the form below.
Unfortunately due to a very poor deal made by Fon and BT the discount is no longer available in the UK :( Please see the form below for all the other Countries it is available in.


Moved from old blog: Taking apart my Belkin Wireless G Router (F5D7230-4)

Posted: August 4th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Technology | No Comments »

Well now i have managed to take apart my old belkin router and have found out the source of my problem (bad power connection) so i can now fix that, also while i have it open i did a bit of research about the circuit board only to find out that it isn’t a broadcom chipset so i can’t load DD-WRT on to it :( But for those of you who are interested i am about to explain how to take this router apart…

Step 1.

Heat up the label underneath the router with a hair dryer until it is hot enough to peel off the sticker to reveal two screws (may be positioned differently from my picture but does not make a difference) then unscrew them.

Screws Under Label

Step 2.

There are two clips positioned on each side of the top cover which need to be unclipped before the top cover will come off. This part is the most difficult and will need a bit of force and a pen knife (small, use the blunt screw driver head/ file – but make sure you don’t file away the plastic). Start at the back (i started on the right hand corner) and unclip them one at a time.

Top Cover Clips

Top Cover Upside-Down

Step 3.

Right… you should now have the top cover off:

Top Cover

Step 4.

Finally if you would like to remove the circuit board you can remove the one screw which holds the circuit board down (may very from version to version but should be obvious)

Circuit Board


Just Moving To Blogger!

Posted: August 4th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Technology | No Comments »

Right, im just moving over to blogger in an attempt to become more organised with less fuss. Things should be back to normal within a couple of days!

Samuel