Welcome To Brooknet

Greetings! If this is your first visit, welcome to the site.

LATEST NEWS (24-Jan-26)

Happy New Year! This is the first update since October 2025. There's not much news: it's winter, so it's cold and dark and I'm awake at odd times of the day. News regarding my Internet connection: AVM added a new feature to Fritz!OS, enabling the use of a 'fallback' or 'failover' Internet connection. If Zen Internet - or their network peers - have a connectivity problem, the Fritz!Box will switch to a mobile data connection. This is going to be via 4G, so it won't be as fast as the fibre. It also means that the IP address will change, so you will need to wait a few minutes for the No-IP.com updater to change the address of brooknet.no-ip.org. Reconnect and it should work. There are a number of things that could go wrong: the primary one is the 4G modem's ISP terminating the connection because the credit has run out. I don't have any sort of monitoring for this, other than to check manually.

When the 4G modem is being used, ports will not be forwarded, so there may not be www service at all. I'll mess around with that and enable it, as it is in a different part of the Fritz!Box configuration.

List Of Miscellaneous Stuff

Raspberry Pi 'Pi-NoIR' infra-red camera (login as 'guest', 'guest')
A static camera image, for old web browsers (page periodically refreshes)
A time-lapse video of the camera footage.
timeanddate.com clock, on a page of its own
offline -> TinyMCE Javascript-based editor
Site policy/disclaimer

Other stuff

Site FAQ
My projects page
My contact details
Index of indexes (new!)
Site news/history (old!)
My YouTube videos
A local page with YouTube links
Site map
Network services available
Freeserve website mirror (old!)
The website that was here before this one
My old website (local)
My old website (Internet Archive)
The archive of my current website
... and the archive of the old site, brooknet.no-ip.com.
A plain (non-CSS, and old!) version of this page

Google Search Gadget

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