In How to Fry a Wireless Router or Two, I wrote about my brother’s experience frying a pair of wireless modems in a lightning storm. Last week, I talked about what had happened, why it happened, and what he could do to prevent the problem in the future (this was the third set of routers, [...]
Hub or Router for the Internet Connection
I was recently asked about whether a router was needed to allow two home computers to access the Internet via one DSL account (similarly, it could have been a cable account). The alternative was that they would use a lower cost hub instead of a router. My answer, without any hesitation, was to get a [...]
Checking and Sending Emails When Traveling
Subscriber Rita Bies wrote to ask me if I could help her get her web mail working: I used to use mail2web.com to retrieve my e-mail while on vacation. I haven’t used it in over a year and now when I try to access it, the log-in page comes up with my e-mail address and [...]
DSL Modem Causes BSOD and Reboot
Reader Russ Tinley wrote about some problems he was having with his DSL modem, his desktop computer and his notebook. We corresponded on the subject and it made my newsletter as the article HOWTO: Stopping Blue Screen of Death Reboots. In that article, I wrote Reader Russ Tinley wrote about a strange problem he was [...]
Buying a Cable Modem
[This article was originally published in the newsletter of the Cajun Clickers Computer Club — www.clickers.org — in early 2002. ] After using a cable modem for almost three years, across the Thanksgiving (2001) holidays, I finally broke down and bought a cable modem, the Toshiba PCX-1100U, which has both Ethernet and USB jacks for [...]
Broadband Problems and Questions
Recently, I received two interesting questions from U.K. subscribers. I wrote about and answered the other one, which was about external hard drives, in this week’s email newsletter. In this question, subscriber Robin wrote about problems she is having with her broadband connection… Hi Terry I have a stand alone desktop computer with a Tiscali.co.uk [...]
Advertising and the Web
There is a very popular misconception that the Internet — especially the Web — is free. We get that feeling because most sites are freely open to the public — they don’t require memberships fees or subscriptions fees for you to access the sites. Sometimes, we get that feeling because we pay to access the [...]
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