RUN TCP/IP | Morgan Lucas is Tech Blogging

As I poke around my home office, I find two wireless routers. Technically they should be a combo switch/router, or a L3 Switch, but they're here. Well, one is the combo device, one is a flat out wireless router that would connect to an ISPs router to give us access to the internet. So I hooked one up to my PC (My Laptop doesn't have Ethernet ports) so I could poke around again with my old-found (as opposed to new-found) IT knowledge. Welcome to Routerworld. We own the equipment even though we don't have AT&T's internet anymore.

Warning - Rooting a phone makes it even more vulnerable to malware and attacks. Be mindful. That being said, let's make our phone even more vulnerable to malware and attacks, shall we.

This is my Galaxy S5; For the curious, the wallpaper is Splatoon 2 Promo Art. Today, we are going to try using this as a Wifi Extender.

I'm cleaning out my room. There's so much stuff that could make other people happier than it makes me. If anyone is interested in a variety of things, from fancy knapsacks to Tsum Tsums to dolls, let me know. But that's not why we're here - We're here because I found my old Moto X phone. I'm not sure why I stopped using it, but I know I replaced it with the Galaxy S5 in 2014, and eventually my mother's hand-me-down LG Stylo until I dropped it and shattered the screen. And receiving my own LG Stylo 2 this February. If I knew I still had my Moto, I wouldn't have paid money for an upgrade (Assuming it still works on T-Mobile's networks. It should). So I found the article - What To Do With an Old Smartphone - And besides some usual suggestions - one stood out. Make Your Phone into a File Server.  I picked the app FTP Server - It opens the appropriate ports on the phone and grants file access. Of course, you could probably do i...