I sat down at my computer this morning to finish 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, [...]
Getting Started With A New Computer
Are you getting a new computer for Christmas or for any other reason? Are you giving a new computer as a gift? Either way, start right, with security in mind. If it’s going to be your own computer, you want to make sure that you don’t get infected with viruses, spyware, malware, worms or other [...]
Who’s Using My Internet Access?
New subscriber Nelson H. wrote to ask a question about his Internet access: Dear Terry I have adsl2 on my computer and I belive someone is stealing my usage by accesing my connection. I cannot find what program is running on my comp, but my usage is going through the roof even although I am [...]
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 [...]
Apple’s New iPad is a Loser
It looks like I’m the one of the few people in the world who is not overwhelmed with the new iPad from Apple. In case you missed all the noise about the new Apple product, the iPad is shaped like a tablet PC (you know, the flat, non-folding PC that still hasn’t found a market). [...]
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 [...]
A Verizon Customer’s DSL Connection Problem Solved Several Times…
After last week’s article DSL Connection Not Working Reliably, reader Andrea wrote: Hello, I had a similar issue as the person in your article about her internet connection not working properly. I also have Verizon DSL and, at first, had their modem. After about a year, my connection started dropping constantly, then would be okay [...]
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