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Antennas
Before You Buy a Cellular Antenna, Do This First
Every week, someone contacts me with a version of the same request. “My router is slow. I need…
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IoT and Connectivity
Your Teltonika Router Has a Public IP SIM. Here Is Why That Is a Problem – and How to Fix It.
Hundreds of thousands of Teltonika routers are deployed across the UK with a public IP SIM inserted and…
Industry and Opinion
GSM Fax: The Technology Nobody Understood, the Script I Wrote to Get It Activated, and Why the Same Problem Exists in IoT Today
By Nick Appleby There is a specific kind of technical knowledge that sits in a very narrow corridor…
Industry and Opinion
GEM420: What a Router Name, a Cloth Cat and a Nursery Rhyme Taught Me About Language
I was watching Bagpuss with my daughter last week. If you’re not familiar with the 1974 BBC series,…
IoT and Connectivity
IoT Data: Are We Measuring Because It Matters, or Just Because We Can?
In a recent piece on this site I wrote about the Cheugugi – the national rainfall measurement network…
IoT and Connectivity
Cheugugi: Joseon Korea’s National Rainfall Measurement Network (1441-1907)
There is a particular kind of arrogance that settles into modern thinking about data, a quiet assumption that…
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Thinking Out Loud
What Does “Working Class” Actually Mean in 2025?
Thinking Out Loud Earlier this year the Labour government found itself unable to define working class. Ministers ducked…