I sat down at my computer recently to finish writing my newsletter, only to find the hated words "Not connected." Windows 7 was informing me that I had no network connection. Not just no Internet access, but not even access to the other computers on my home network. This was a horrible morning. Everything worked [...]
Accessing the Internet While Travelling – 2011 Style
Several years ago, I wrote an article about how to access the Internet while travelling. It focused on using a notebook computer with dialup access, using a hotel business center’s computer (or a friend’s whom you were visiting) to access your emails. Little more than that So much has changed… Now, we have smart phones, [...]
Upgrading to a DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem
There are a lot of cable modems on the market these days. Well, there are a lot of DOCSIS 2.0 cable modems today. There don’t appear to be many that are the new DOCSIS 3.0 ones yet, though. Tech Tip When cable television companies first started delivering Internet services over their cable systems, there were [...]
Upgrading to a Wireless N Router
In an earlier newsletter, I wrote about Upgrading the Router in Preparation for DOCSIS 3.0 Speeds. At the time, I was considering a Cisco-Linksys WRT320N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router . That’s not the one I finally chose, though — a newer, better model came out. The main point is that I finally took the plunge [...]
Upgrading My Internet Connection
Recently, I upgraded the Internet connection package provided by my Internet Service Provider (ISP) to a higher tier of service. I had the "up to 3 megabits per second" (Mbps) service. Over the years, that had been upgraded to " up to 7.5 Mbps" the last time I had noticed. As I started considering the [...]
The Case of the Dying Router
It wasn’t a Sherlock Holmes case, but it did take some detective work to solve this one… The time was Saturday afternoon, about 5pm…I was sitting at my computer writing my newsletter for this week. I clicked on a link in my web browser to check something. It hesitated and then showed part of the [...]
Very Slow Web Browser
New subscriber M. Bangirov wrote to ask about web browsing speed problems: Hi Terry, My problem is very slow web browser.I have tried different browsers- mozilla,explorer7,opera and so on but i still have slow browser.Although the speed is ok with other computers with my EeePC 1000H i could not stand.I am becoming very angry with [...]
Another Verizon Customer’s Solution
After last week’s article DSL Connection Not Working Reliably, long-time subscriber James Biddle wrote about his own experience and solution with Verizon DSL problems: I used to have the same problems with Verizon DSL. When Time Warner Cable came out with their high-speed cable internet — I switched. The problem with DSL (at least with [...]
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