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 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 [...]
Sharing an Internet Connection
Reader Mohamed Musthafa wrote to ask how to share his Internet connection more effectively: Mr terry Please help me. MY problem is i am using my friend s internet connection to use internet , he gave his user name and password also his mac address i change my computers mac address to his address now [...]
How Does a Router Protect Me?
Subscriber Gwyn sent a question about one of the basic functions of a router, and how it protects you on your cable, DSL, Ethernet or other connection to the Internet: your comment:”But, someone on the Internet side of the router can not initiate a connection to your computer — they can only respond to your [...]
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 [...]
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