gHacks technology news » connection problems http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Fix Winsock Errors With Winsock Repair http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/fix-winsock-errors-with-winsock-repair/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/fix-winsock-errors-with-winsock-repair/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:54:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14807 microsoft windowsWinsock, which stands for Windows Sockets Api, defines how networking software should access network services. Many users come into contact with Winsock after experiencing connection problems that are usually related to Winsock. The connection problems come in a wide variety and include losing network connections, dns lookup problems, websites becoming unavailable, limited network connections plus many more.

There are several reasons for these network issues including computer crashes, installation of networking software or malicious software attacks that tampered with network settings and Winsock. A corrupt Winsock can therefor lead to all kinds of networking troubles which are difficulty to analyze and understand for the inexperienced user.

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Some software developers on the other hand have created software programs that can fix most Winsock errors with the push of a button. That’s obviously more comfortable than having to fix the errors manually.

Winsock Repair is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that has two primary functions. The first is to reset the TCP/IP stack which will rewrite important Windows Registry keys with their default values. The second will try to repair Winsock so that the network connectivity issues are a thing of the past. It does provide an option to list the installed LSPs (Layered Service Providers) which can be important as pre-installed LSPs might need to be reinstalled after fixing the Winsock errors.

LSP Fix is an alternative to Winsock Repair. It makes it easier to deal with LSP related problems as it will list all of them in its interface with the option to remove only selected ones from the computer system.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/27/fix-winsock-errors-with-winsock-repair/feed/ 11 Traceroute From Multiple Locations http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/30/traceroute-from-multiple-locations/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/30/traceroute-from-multiple-locations/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:32:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5308 The Traceroute command displays the list of Internet hops that lie between your local computer and the remote computer. It provides an excellent way to identify connection problems because it is actually showing you the hop that is causing the problems.

Just Traceroute (via Digital Inspiration) takes this a step further by issuing a traceroute command from multiple locations in the world. Different locations, especially when they are from different parts of the world, use different “ways” to reach their target which could give additional information about the cause of the connection problem.

The services is using servers located in the United States, Netherlands, Australia and Singapore to run the traceroute command.

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The results can be forwarded to an email address. The very same window offers a way to copy the all four traceroutes to the clipboard directly.

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