LAN Creation

14/01/2026

🎸 Dungog is calling 🍻

We’re really excited for one of our awesome VIP clients, Settlers Arms Pub, who are hosting The Fabulous Caprettos — an incredible lineup of some of Australia’s most loved voices and biggest hits, all on one stage.

If you’ve been thinking about a little weekend escape, this is the perfect excuse: great live music, cold drinks, a beautiful country town and a venue full of history and heart. We hope to see a few familiar faces up there enjoying a brilliant night out.

👉 Full event details and tickets here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AKKqjVbh9/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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✅ Major Concert Announcement ✅

The Fabulous Caprettos
Saturday 30th May 2026
Settlers Arms Hotel – Dungog
45 Brown Street, Dungog NSW 2420

Tickets On Sale – Thursday 15th January 2026 – 9am
➡️ Here: https://www.trybooking.com/DISCP

Australia’s favourite supergroup once again present the best in Australian music – live!

Featuring:
Dave Gleeson (The Screaming Jets/The Angels),
Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc/Joe Satriani/Sammy Hagar)
Joe Camilleri (The Black Sorrows)
Wendy Matthews

Music fans can expect to hear a catalogue of greatest hits - songs such as The Black Sorrow’s Harley & Rose, Chained to The Wheel, Thirsty Merc’s pop songs, In the Summertime, 20 Good Reasons, Mousetrap Heart, The Screaming Jets rock anthems such as Better, Shiver, Helping Hand, Wendy Matthews Let’s Kiss, The Day You Went Away..

Gates open 3pm ….
Live music from 4pm.
✅ 1 hr drive from Newcastle
✅ 2 hr drive from Hornsby.
We are the northern mainline with various passenger services everyday.

Come visit Dungog - great drive, beautiful area, fantastic rural community, lots to see and do in the area from hiking, bike tracks, rivers for fishing / swimming / kayaking etc

Come to the Settlers soon to check out the venue. 170 year old, just completed a major refurbishment. Set on an acre of land, see the large family friendly yard. Open from 3pm Wed/thurs/Friday. From midday on Sat/Sun.

⚠️ NO REFUNDS ⚠️ This concert is an outdoors, rain, hail or shine event.
Kids Under 18 - Free. Must be accompanied by an adult.

30/05/2024

Intro to Copilot - https://bit.ly/LCwebinar-CopilotIntro

Need a kickstart to move forward with confidence in your AI journey? We recently held an Introduction to Copilot webinar to SHOW you how to get started, address some of the security concerns, and offer a few tips on how to get better results from your "Prompts".

Skip past Rod Arthur ;) to get into the juicy live demos with our guest speaker Robert Crane - Hopefully you will get your own ideas of how to start becoming more productive and creative today.

06/11/2023

Proud to support such a great cause with .

With your help we can keep the Big Yellow Bus on the road.

07/08/2023

Proud to be sponsors for the Frank Searles Mermorial Charity shoot - Raising money for Heart Foundation with Newcastle Lake Macquarie Clay Targe Club In August 12-13 2023

Thank you LAN Creation for your support in our upcoming Frank Searles 2 Day Charity shoot.

21/04/2021

Over the last couple of years you may have heard about Elon Musk’s Starlink project to deliver faster internet across many parts of the world.
They have just started to light up this project in Beta testing in Australia
https://www.starlink.com/faq

To order – I signed up here https://www.starlink.com/ to be on the BETA program, and will be happy to provide updates once I get to play with this new Internet connection
This could be a game changer for a number of our clients over coming year that are just stuck on NBN SkyMuster Satellite with expensive and poor speed performance, and high latency with 640ms Ping times.

For a news coverage with general information, go to https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-04-14/elon-musk-starlink-operating-australia-what-is-it/100062862

02/03/2020

One For Us Dad's LAN Creation

😂😂

29/08/2019

LAN Creation has started regular team social events.
Its been a great way to unwind and have some fun together outside the pressure of the office.
Last Friday afternoon was a beautiful afternoon to do some fishing !

06/12/2017

Preventative Measures to Improve Internet Security

The best way to fight against attempts to compromise business accounts and identify malicious emails is to educate your staff on how to recognise the common tactics/factors.

These basic steps provide a good base of security to avoid having your account compromised

1) Always use unique passwords for every account, and especially NEVER EVER use the same password for personal accounts as you do for a business account. Websites you may use on personal time (e.g. small online stores, video sharing sites, etc) can have security vulnerabilities and are often the target of hackers that steal password databases.
2) Make sure your passwords are secure. A good base standard for a password is 8 characters, at least one capital letter, and at least 2 special characters (numbers or symbols).
3) Don’t save passwords using the inbuilt save function on your browser (e.g. Google Chrome). These passwords can be very easily and quickly viewed on your computer by anyone who knows your computer login.
4) If you do not recognise an address or do not believe you should be receiving an email from an address, especially if it involves personal or financial information, treat is with suspicion. Contact the sender if possible, you can also contact your IT and they can confirm for you whether the email is suspicious.
5) Don’t log in to your business accounts on computers that you aren’t familiar with (e.g. a friend’s laptop or an internet café computer). Also try and avoid logging in to your business accounts when using public wifi (e.g. in a fast food restaurant or a shopping centre) as these are often insecure.
6) Try to avoid entering your account details in to sites you don’t recognise or links you have received via email, these can often be faked sites designed to look like the real website but are actually just designed to steal your password after you enter it. Giveaways for these kinds of sites are misspellings of words, characters switched for other characters (e.g. a zero in place of an O in the address) and lack of a valid SSL certificate (indicated by the lack of a ‘HTTPS://’ before the websites name in the address bar)

You can also learn to recognise the telltale signs of a fake/malicious emails.

Some of these are as follows:

1) A sense of urgency (e.g. “Please transfer $X.XX by THIS AFTERNOON or Y consequences”)
2) Misspellings in the subject line and text
3) Suspicious links to external sites (e.g. a link to a google drive document from someone who has never sent you any google drive documents before)
4) The subject of the email is completely unrelated to your Job Role (e.g. it is regarding finance but you are in HR)
5) There are people who you don’t recognise or are completely unrelated to you CC’d on the email
6) Email was sent at suspicious hours (e.g. an email from a local business usually wouldn’t be sent at 1a.m)
7) The email is trying to entice you or threatening consequences for not responding/not clicking on their link
These are just some of the general signs of a suspicious email.

A more thorough breakdown can be found at the following link.

https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/protect-yourself/protect-your-stuff/email

08/03/2017

Test Website Contact Forms

Over past six months, we have had many clients who have their website hosting with other providers not aware that their contact form on their company website is no longer working.

The main reasons we have found to cause the contact forms to be broken are due to back-end website updates on hosting platforms. Updates to tighten security or add new features to plugins have broken functionality of how the contact forms were originally designed to work. We have found this becoming increasingly prevalent in clients with Hosted Exchange email platforms like Office 365.

Usually not huge issues for your web designers to fix if they know it is broken. What we have observed is many clients do not have monitoring of these updates, or regular testing of their website and contact forms. So the issue can be unnoticed for many months until someone finally chases up with company why they have had no contact yet.

We recommend you jump onto your website today, fill out a contact form enquiry on your site and make sure you get the intended response. If not, contact your web designer or website hoster for immediate assistance.

If you like, you can contact LAN Creation to help you as well if you would like independent advice or thinking about changing your Web Hosting or Web Designer for your website.

08/03/2017

Asset Write-off Ends this Financial Year

Small business with an aggregated turnover of less than 2 million (this includes sole traders, partnerships, companies or trusts) have been able to immediately deduct most assets purchased for less than $20,000 since 12/05/2015.

This immediate deduction ends on 30/06/2017.

If your business is considering purchasing a depreciating asset, it would be worthwhile making the purchase before the end of this financial year.

Now would be the time to plan for this, especially if you are considering an IT upgrade.

Contact us if you would like to discuss the possibility of purchasing any IT equipment, we would be happy to recommend or quote on a suitable solution for your business.

For more information, please refer to this Australian Tax Office link and/or consult with your accountant.

https://www.ato.gov.au/business/small-business-entity-concessions/what-s-new-for-small-business/