Dial up Internet users have to cope with several Internet connection related problems that their broadband brethren do not have to deal with at all. A major problem for instance is that the connection will be dropped after a specific amount of inactivity. Inactivity in this case means that no data is send or requested [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Internet Connection Reliability Test
Internet users can experience a variety of problems when connecting to websites and using services on the Internet. Some of these problems are related to the user’s Internet connection while others to viruses or unresponsive or slow servers. It is always a good idea to test the Internet connection before contacting the Internet Service Provider [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Internet Connection Speed Analysis
While bandwidth prices are slowly declining it is still quite common that some Internet Providers try to influence the traffic consumption of their customers by manipulating, which usually means artificially reducing, transfer speeds. Up until recently customers had little possibilities to detect traffic shaping. The Internet connection speed analysis provided by the tool collection at [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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TCP Optimizer
If you are Internet connection is not working as advertised or unproblematic as you have hoped for you might fix the problems by yourself by using a software like TCP Optimizer. SG TCP Optimizer is a portable software program that can change various settings of the TCP connection of a computer system. It provides both [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Internet Connection Check
It can sometimes be complicated to check if an Internet connection is still alive. Sure, modem or routers usually display information about the Internet connection and might reveal if it is still up but they are sometimes not in the same room or even house. Some users would like a software based way to check [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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What Are You Doing When Your Internet Connection Is Down?
After posting the first article about Tourist Remover my Internet connection died suddenly and I knew that it was a problem at the Internet Provider because the phone was not working as well. Since I use the same provider for phone and Internet that was a sure bet. I called anyway just to make sure [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Keep Connection Alive
Dial Up Internet connections are usually set to timeout after a certain period of time. The Internet Provider drops the connection if the computer that established the dial up connection has not send or received data in that time. This is not desired by the user who might be reading a longer article on one [...]