Tagged “networking”
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Packet.School
A game-like way to learn networking, with interactive simulations, drag-and-drop network building, and a terminal experi…
Precise Geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning
An approachable investigation into how a laptop can pinpoint your location from nearby Wi-Fi networks, and how the datab…
Professor Messer
Free CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ training videos, study notes and study group replays for anyone preparing for IT…
PySkyWiFi
A gleeful write-up of how to get free in-flight wi-fi by tunnelling data through the airline's free messaging allowance,…
Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed Mode WiFi
A step-by-step tutorial for running a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a Wi-Fi access point while staying connected as a client to…
Reverse Engineering My Cable Modem Into an SDR
A detailed hacking write-up on reverse engineering a cable modem to repurpose its tuner and hardware as a software-defin…
Start Your Own ISP
A practical, community-written guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider, covering the hardware, licensing, n…
TCP In-Flight Visualizer
An interactive simulation of TCP networking that animates packets in flight, acknowledgements and congestion windows so…
The 200ms Journey
An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request in real time through DNS, TCP, TLS, and servers in the r…
The Case of the 50ms Request
A choose-your-own-investigation mystery game from Wizard Zines: you run commands, read clues and chase down why a web re…
The Curious Case of the Raspberry Pi in the Network Closet
A detective story about finding a rogue Raspberry Pi hidden in an office network, tracing it with help from Reddit and c…
The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection
Click through a real TLS 1.3 connection byte by byte: every handshake message, key calculation and encrypted record is a…
The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection
An interactive walkthrough of a single encrypted web connection where you click through every byte of the TLS 1.3 handsh…
The Illustrated TLS Connection
A byte-by-byte illustrated walkthrough of a real TLS handshake, with color-coded fields explaining what every part of th…
The Internet from Rocks
A long, friendly explainer that builds the whole stack from sand and transistors up through logic gates, CPUs, operating…
The Nintendo Switch Switch
A playful hack that turns a Nintendo Switch console into a real Ethernet network switch, explaining the pun-driven idea…
The OSI Model
A plain-language walkthrough of the seven OSI layers, with the related protocols, services, and key concepts for each la…
TLS, Byte by Byte
An interactive walkthrough that shows this very page fetching itself over TLS, with every handshake byte annotated and e…
Traceroute Visualizer
An interactive tool that maps network traceroute paths, showing each hop, its latency and geographic location so you can…
Visual Subnet Calculator
A visual subnet calculator for network engineers that lets you split and join IP address blocks and see the resulting su…
WebRTC for the Curious
An open-source book that explains how WebRTC really works, walking through the underlying protocols such as signaling, I…
Wi is Fi
A long, carefully maintained guide that explains Wi-Fi 4 through 8, channels, bandwidth and range in plain language so y…
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