Point Element

On a whim, last week I purchased this laptop from Lenovo Store. It's retail price was 52000/- INR, and I used a coupon for 2500/- off, and there was an offer running for upto 5000/- INR cashback on payment from HDFC bank credit/debit card. It's a 14" laptop, and the detailed configuration is as below: Processor AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500U Processor (6 Cores / 12 Threads, 2.10 GHz, up to 4.00 GHz with Max Boost, 3 MB Cache L2 / 8 MB Cache L3) Operating System ...

I saw a warning popup on my windows laptop regarding "security issue with wifi network". I clicked on the popup and it took me to a page where it informed me that the home wifi is using TKIP cypher for security and it's obsolete. I should use AES. I opened my router's configuration page and checked in wireless settings. Found out that by default the router supports both WPA1 and WPA2. And as with WPA1 TKIP cypher is used. This is not good. So I set it to explicitly use AES with WPA2 support. Now the warning is gone. But my wifi router is dual band - so I have 2 SSID's with one for 2.4GHz and other for 5GHz. This change I have made is to 5GHz band. Now all other older devices connect to the 2.4GHz band. So I have a big exercise there to see if I can shift to AES/WPA2 on 2.4GHz band too. I don't think that will be possible with all these 3-4 year old other laptops and phones. But lets see. The more secure things are the better things are!! On other hand, I also ...