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Limiting internet bandwidth on Wifi

I have a dlink wifi router. I become very helpless when my cousins come over for weekend and suck up all the internet bandwidth by streaming Netflix and youtube. I just to limit wifi bandwidth for the ...
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How do I force ICS on a LAN connection?

I'm trying to share my internet over a Bluetooth PAN, and I have enabled Bluetooth sharing and connected my computer to another one which doesn't have an internet connection. However, when I try to ...
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How do I increase my office internet speed? [closed]

Can you please suggest what should I do to increase my internet speed per PC? My details: I have 6 Macs and 10 PC/Laptops in my office. We have a 12 MBPS internet plan. We have a Wireless router ...
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Choosing IP Address For Firefox

On my server I have 2 static IP addresses. I would like to set Firefox to use one IP address exclusively. Does anyone have any good ideas on achieving this?
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Allow limited machines to access internet in wifi network

I have 4 laptops connected to my wifi router. I want the internet working on 2 machines only but allow all 4 to share files. What is the best way to do that?
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Monitor/Track data sent over internet by an application

How do I monitor/track (and possibly save) the data that is sent over the internet by an application? Example: I have an application "X", it sends some data over the internet, now I want to know what ...
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Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address?

Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address? For example, www.xjtl.com, www.fmie.com, sdmfl.com, etc. Hundreds of domain names share just one IP – when you do a DNS query for each of ...
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How do I find Safari on a Mac?

I just bought a Mac Mini after using PCs for a decade plus. I've configured with the Mac Mini setup assistant. It finally confirms I'm connected to the internet. I can find no browser to surf the ...
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Share LAN & CDMA over WIFI

I have a PC (Windows 7) connected to a LAN network and want to share internet over WIFI. What hardware is necessary to share LAN connection over WIFI (preferably a USB device)? Secondly, can a CDMA ...
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My laptop connect to wireless router but wont connect to internet

My laptop has Windows 7 and connects fine when connected via an Ethernet cable to a router and my mobile works fine connected wirelessly. But, when I try to connect my laptop wirelessly, it does not ...
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Why am I being redirected to Cisco Guest Access

Every time I access the internet, the neighbor's Cisco GUEST ACCESS shows up instead of my home internet. If I leave my computer for over 15 minutes, I am kicked off my own internet ID and redirected ...
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Can I tell which process is using my 3G connection?

My PAYG 3G bandwidth is vanishing at an alarming rate. Yesterday 2GB just surfing and processing email, in an hour or two. I just experienced it again, with 500MB over about an hour. I suspect either ...
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Linux Mint 14 issues with WiFi connectivity

For the past month and a half or so I've been trying rid myself of my Windows dependency. I have tried Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Linux Mint. Everything works great except for WiFi. I install the distro ...
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D-Link DIR-655 and DSL-2641B - 2 or more computers issue

Background: I have DSL-2641B working in bridge mode and I have DIR-655 as my router. I have a DSL connection, DSL-2641B just bridges the connection and passes it trough to DIR-655. So, all my ...
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How can I record additional data with pings, such as IP and ISP info?

I am running after my ISP for last 15 days for unacceptable slow internet speed without any help. I was using SpeedTest.net and testmy.net for testing the speed. At times SpeedTest fails to load due ...
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Use a proxy with web authentication

I'm behind a web-proxy that needs me to authenticate on a web page in order to browse the web. It seems to me that because of this authentication page sytem, I can't set up my linux package manager to ...
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The little eye on the right hand side when logging in passwords [duplicate]

I just finished reading an answer to this question - but why is this happening? I had someone come out to fix my internet explorer - which was running super slow due to a recent install of HP printer ...
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Downloading over wifi is strange

The situation is basically as follows: If I download a file (e.g. a ubuntu.iso) through ethernet on my homeserver I get 2 MB/s. If I transfer the file over wifi to my laptop, I get about 1.8 MB/s ...
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Custom search for format or pattern on a web page?

Is there a browser extension which will allow me to perform a search for text with a specific format on a web page? For example: [3 digits]-[3 digits]-[4 digits] (for a phone number) Or: 10 digits ...
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set up VPN server to share internet connection

In my university, the wifi signal covers anywhere in the campus. However, an internet client software is needed for users to login before the internet connection is available. And there are no such ...
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Windows 7 share files with just one other computer

I have two computers at home. Between them, i have a utp cat 6 crosswire cable for file-sharing. Both are running Windows 7 (pro) and 8 (pro). I was wondering how to share a partition only with one ...
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Wifi internet and network acces only via bluetooth adapter

I want to have wifi access via my bluetooth adapter. I have a computer without wifi adapter, but i do have a bluetooth adapter (usb). I was wondering how to use my bluetooth adapter as a wifi adapter. ...
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using a non-network internet connection while being connected to a home network

So I've setup a home network using Netgear N300 router with the intention of connection my home computers together so that they can access files from each other... The thing is, I don't want to ...
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Unable to connect to Wifi Router (Windows 7)

I have a Dlink signal antenna wifi router. It takes alot of time to connect to the wifi even when the signals are at full strength, but if I take the device to the router, the device gets connected. ...
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Internet connection working properly for some computers, but not others

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. If it isn't, please let me know where it would be appropriate, as this problem has been plaguing me for some time. At any rate, my problem is this: ...
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Automatically bookmark last viewed page

This excludes RSS feed A.K.A Live Bookmark. I am looking for a bookmark[let] that gets updated automatically so that it directs to the last viewed page for a given website. I am guessing something ...
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Internet Download Manager

I have uninstalled Internet Download Manager from my Computer running on windows 7. But still in registry search it show about 70 entries that could not be yet removed. How can I clean it?
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Allow only some cookies, and only as First Party (FF+IE)

Basically I want to disable all the cookies, except a few (white list). The few that I want to allow, should only be allowed as first party, not third. If I'm unchecking "Allow Cookies" in firefox, ...
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Internet connection lost after share

We have 2 laptops: Vista, working WIFI Win 7, broken WIFI We need share WIFI Internet from 1. laptop to 2. laptop by LAN. Router or other devices are not arount, so this is only way at the ...
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Blocked because of IPS attack

When I browse to a website it shows me an error message like Blocked because of IPS attack An attack was detected, originating from your system. Please contact the system administrator. The ...
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Is is possible to watch Netflix in Europe with a US account and without VPN

If I have a US Netflix account, can I just open Netflix in Europe, log in and use it? When I open the Netflix website in Europe and i get: "Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet." ...
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usenet server uses more bandwidth then I can measure

So here's the situation. I just started using usenet (server Newshosting), and I am on a bit of a limited bandwidth local network so I've been trying to figure out how much bandwidth I'm actually ...
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Windows 7 Internet Only Works In IE (Not proxy, or Windows updates)

A friend of mine turned on their computer today and Firefox did not open any webpages they tried to navigate too (namely mail.google.com). Anyway, they called me up since I do tech support and this ...
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Cannot browse to most websites, on my PC only

I cannot load most websites on my PC. Using Chrome, FireFox, or IE I get the "this webpage is not available" error. I've tried and failed to ping the websites that won't load. I'm in a domain ...
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Generic Ethernet drivers for WINDOWS

Background: I have a custom built box that I like to setup with multi-boot using GRUB2 and having Windows 7 x64, latest Linux Mint x64, and couple other Linux/Unix distros. I've had this setup ...
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My computer stops every download at 99%

Whenever I start any downloading it stop on 99% and never completes. I changed my download manger and stopped firewall, but all in vain. Problem contiunes to persist. What is causing this problem and ...
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Where to download 4K videos? [closed]

I would like to experience what 4K or 8K videos looks like, where to download? Sample videos are enough, no need for full-length videos.
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How do programs acess the internet? [closed]

Just out of curiosity, how do programs acess the internet? For example, Icloud is a program by apple that automatically syncs photos, notes, etc. from an apple device to a pc through a wireless ...
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Force the use of OpenDNS with an Edimax router

I am using an Edimax router on my home network and have set the default DNS addresses to those of OpenDNS's Family Shield. But now I realise the protection is safe only if I force the use of OpenDNS ...
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Is it possible to set up domains and sub-domains on a private Internet subscription?

I am not great at understanding DNS, so please have patience. I have a server set up at home which can be reached at an address similar to foo.dns.org, under a domain that I do not own but that I get ...
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Macbook air can't connect to wifi network

I have a macbook air (Mac OS X 10.6), I want to connect to a shared wifi, my mac picks up the network but when I type the password (WPA Personal) it sends me an error message: time connection timed ...
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Ubuntu can't connect to internet

Ubuntu is unable to connect to internet, both live CD and installed Ubuntu can't connect to network. The system sees the Ethernet interface from the look of ifconfig output: *eth0 Link ...
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download a large file using multiple connections and PCs

I have three seperate computers, which I currently do not have an OS on. I also have three seperate internet connections with connection speeds of 256K, 512K and 1M. I would like to use all three of ...
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Can I use Beetel 450TC1 as wireless router?

Recently I have opted for broadband connection which is coming directly cat5 cable with RJ45 port to my laptop. They have provided me with IP address, default Gateway, subnet mask, preferred DNS and ...
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uverse internet works on everything but my desktop

We have uverse wireless internet in our house. We have four phones connected to it two android two iPhone's, an ipad, a windows laptop, my Xbox 360 and my windows 7 desktop. All devices work fine ...
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Network Usage Monitoring

We want to know how much internet is used by our employees. We tried Lan Detective software. But we have to install and run that software in all PCs. So any alternate solution? How can we get internet ...
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How to change the dhcp range alloted through ICS in Windows 7 to 192.168.1.x range?

I have set up Internet Connection Sharing in my Windows 7 laptop. Currently the IP range alloted for ICS clients from DHCP is in the range of 192.168.137.x. I am not able to find a way to change the ...
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Different Internet Speeds [closed]

My family has an internet plan that is very old. We don't have the newer plans that have really fast internet speeds. Usually my download speeds are at 90 kb/sec. The highest download speeds that I ...
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Limiting user privileges in an internet cafe setting

I am trying to set up a small internet cafe with 3 PCs. I want to make them secure and ensure that the users don't have full rights on the PC they are working on. For example, they shouldn't be able ...
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Interrupted Internet browsing on Windows 7 [closed]

My question: Can Windows 7 (not original version) create trouble in Internet browsing in few cases? My Fact: Since few weeks, I have not been getting good Internet connection while I browse Internet ...

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