Posts Tagged ‘network’

Use OpenDNS to Speed up your internet connection

Friday, June 20th, 2008

OpenDNS - speed up your internet connectionA DNS server resolves domain names into IP address by looking up DNS tables. A DNS server is usually provided by your ISP. Before contacting the destination you type in your browser’s address bar, it is first resolved to IP address by your DNS Server.

A slow DNS server may impact your browsing speed to a large extent which is usually the case with most ISP’s. OpenDNS helps you to resolve that problem by providing faster DNS resolving service.

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Schedule your Internet Connection

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Today i found a nice trick to schedule automatic connection and disconnection from your broadband connection which i thought, might be useful to share with you. This trick is especially useful for those who have connection which are unlimited for a certain period of time in a day.

You can download large files from Internet in free time and automatically disconnect when the free time limit is over.

To do this you’ll need to open Notepad, and type in

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Speed up your Broadband Connection

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Here is a nice hack for windows users to speed up your internet experience. Do you know that windows reserves 20% of the bandwidth of a network connection for its own use. What if we could use that additional 20% bandwidth also??

Follow along to seize that 20%:

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Monitor your Network Usage with Net Meter

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

If you are on one of those internet connections, which have limited monthly bandwidth and once bandwidth limit is reached, your ISP starts charging some amount per MB, then Net Meter is the tool for you.

Netmeter - Monitor Internet Bandwidth usage

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