Soon after turning on my desktop the internet stops working and I need to reset the modem. The suspected culprit is the modem not supporting IPv6 properly.
Current fix is to set the IPv6 settings to ignore in the connections settings.
More SSH goodness.
To set up a SOCKS proxy over ssh simply run
$ ssh -D 1080 user@example.com
and set your browser's SOCKS proxy settings to point to localhost:1080
I found this really handy for downloading research ...
How to set up port forwarding from your local machine to a remote machine behind a firewall through a gateway machine.
Commands are run on your local machine.
IP addresses obviously need to be replaced with the actual addresses or host names of the target pc.
First you setup port ...
Always. Always try turning it off and on again.