An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs connect customers to the Internet using copper, wireless or fiber connections.
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Is it possible to find out which upstream DNS server my router is querying? (just using dns tools)
Ok, here is the setup:
I have a local router which advertises itself as the DNS server over DHCP. The DNS resolver on the router just forwards the requests to the ISP nameservers and caches the reply.
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How does Windows know information about a connection's lease time?
How can Windows "see" information of an ethernet adapter's lease (like lease obtained/expires), when that lease comes from the ISP, but when there's a router in between?
I've assumed that lease ...
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Netgear DG834Gv3 ADSL router dropping Rackspace VPN connection intermittently
I have a Netgear DG834G v3 ADSL router which I have had since early-2007.
When I work from home I connect to office networks on a Win7 machine via a Rackspace-provided VPN using Cisco System VPN ...
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Why some internet providers use proxy for internet connection? [closed]
Some ISPs and organizations (which are big enough to provide internet over the system like an ISP) use proxy for providing the service to their clients.
Then, each user need to set the target proxy ...
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ISP, broken routes and my options
My ISP has serious routing problem. First, I've confirmed that my Internet connection is indeed working:
rr-@burza:~(1:3) $ ping -c 4 -W 1 status.github.com
PING octostatus-production.github.com ...
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How do I make my PPTP VPN work without disabling NAT?
Yesterday, I tried to connect my home computer to the VPN at my workplace using PPTP and the wizard from Windows 7. It's very straightforward, I fill in the data, etc.
When I try to connect, Windows ...
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Great Internet speeds, but downloads and streaming halts
For about 5 days now, our Internet connection has been doing something unusual. These are the kinds of symptoms that usually indicate a bad network card, or something wobbly with a wi-fi router but ...
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Test wireless speed?
Is there an utility that can test the speed between my pc and the wireless access point i am connected to?
To clarify why i need to know this. My isp is providing me with a speed of 20mbs. Now if my ...
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Would it ever make sense to have a much lower upload speed than download speed in a fiber optic network?
We have a fiber connection from CenturyLink--one of their first. Our download speed is 10 Mbps, but upload is usually less than 1 Mbps. My understanding is that fiber is fundamentally different than ...
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Is a cable modem registered to a CMTS or the entire ISP?
I am curious if I were to move, do you have to tell your ISP, in this case my cable company, that I am moving? Is the cable modem MAC restricted to a certain CMTS, or could I use any CMTS belonging ...
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How does an ISP assign IP?
I've noticed when I reconnect to internet, the last two bytes of IP address static IP changes.
Does that mean when I disconnect someone else could have the same IP? How does this process differ from ...
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How does a modem know which ISP to connect to?
I am terminating my contraçt with my old ISP, however, because I've already paid my account till the end of the month, this connection is still active. I have also signed up with a new ISP who mailed ...
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How to circumvent a private WAN IP address?
I just signed up with a new ISP and I got a dynamic private-range (172) IP as WAN address on my firewall/router, so I can't do any port forwarding. They say that to do port forwarding I must buy a ...
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My ISP locked me out of my router
I did a quick search for this and didn't find results, so I'm thinking its just as bizarre as I thought.
MY internet went down last night, and after 20 minutes of unstable it was back. But out of ...
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What can my ISP do? [closed]
I'm from India and customer service is extremely low priority in the agenda of companies here.
I use an ADSL connection and I want to know what my ISP can do on their side to improve my latency for ...
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Mulitple ISP IP's pointing to one router
My ISP is providing me with two dynamic and one static IP.
My question is: How is it possible to have three IP's, but i only have one router?
Or is it that i can only have a static or a dynamic ip ...
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I want to send email from my Debian server but My ISP block port 25
I have put private server on Debian, I would like to be able to send mail but port 25 is blocked by my ISP. I checked it by opening a telnet connection to another mail server.
The good news is that I ...
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Why is my DSL connection so slow, when my neighbor's is much faster?
I've just moved into a new house (new for me; the house was built in 2006). I've purchased DSL service through AT&T, paying for speeds "up to" 768 Kbps downstream / 384 Kbps upstream. My issue ...
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Why is my ping high on certain hosts?
My ping is fine on the host which is located in UK. With this one, 78.110.165.196:5200,
it's a normal 190-220, but with the other hosts, like 350.178.33.50.4:5198, it is more. I contacted my ISP, but ...
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Dynamic DNS checking site?
Basically, I use to have a site bookmarked that would create a unique subdomain and forward you there, then, when you do a DNS lookup on that subdomain it would mark the DNS IP down and give it to you ...
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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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Is there a US-based ISP directory by area? [closed]
I wanted to change ISPs and am wondering what options I have in my area. I've visited a few sites claiming to be directories, but they seem to be inaccurate.
I live in the Chicago suburbs. Is there ...
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Tor Browser and how it affects torrents
I have recently received a message on my computer stating that my Internet Service Provider has been monitoring my traffic and have recorded me downloading several torrents that they have marked as ...
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DHCP Renew on FW restores Internet Connection - why?
Home network, Cisco ASA 5505 9.0(1), Windows Server 2008 R2 (actually SBS 2011), various Mac, Windows and embedded clients. ISP is Rochester, NY Road Runner.
Often (2-3x per day) my embedded devices ...
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How do I connect multiple devices to an ISP that gives web-based portal for logging in?
I have an ISP (Beam telecom, if it's relevant) that provides only a LAN cable connection. Using this, whichever site you initially open, you are redirected to its portal page where you are required to ...
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Router speed not matching my ISP speed
My ISP recently upgraded me to 150 mbps, I can only get close to this if I wire directly from the modem to my computer. If I wire through my router it maxes at 55, the router model is Linksys E1550, ...
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Where can I find a list of ISPs that allow a home web server?
I hear that only mom-and-pop ISPs let you do that these days, but I can't find a list of them anywhere. This is also a couple of questions:
1) Do you have any recommendations for those kind of ...
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Qualifying (and/or Quantifying) Internet Connectivity Problems
I'm having intermittent problems with my internet, and would like to be able to give my provider enough information to help them diagnose the problem.
Is there a free tool I can run on my PC to track ...
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Two ethernet connects how can I set the default one?
I have Two ethernet cards / Connections
How can I tell windows to set Eth1 as default so web,steaming all the normal stuff uses this connection?
I have set bittorrent up correctly to use the other ...
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Bittorrent and ISP
Quick question..I switched my ISP yesterday and I immediately noticed that my torrent downloads are considerably faster now.
Is it possible torrent downloads were limited by my previous ISP?
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Why we can change our IP address?
I came across some websites that offer to change our IP addresses. One says we can surf the net anonymously, including changing our IP address and location. Most of the software packages are not free, ...
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Is there a simple way to detect ISP port blocking?
Is there a way to tell the difference between my ISP blocking traffic on certain ports and my NAT router/firewall blocking that traffic? The sites “Shields Up” and “Can you see me” show my ports ...
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Host server at home behind ISP NAT using STUN
I'm hosting my own Linux server at home, which I will be using as a VPN server and web hosting if possible, problem is that I'm behind my ISP's NAT which means that I'm unable to connect to my server ...
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determine connections limit enforced by my ISP
I know my new ISP is enforcing a lot of different limitations.
They refuse to say what are the limits.
To determine bandwidth I can use sites like http://www.voiptest.org/
(BTW it shows me ~15% of ...
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mac need to refresh the page to load the correct page
I'm currently developing a site that has an existing/live site. But we have our development site/new version on another server and ip address. But we want our customer to access the dev site using the ...
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Unable to reach remote server from new ISP
From my previous Internet Service Provider I was able to reach (ping/trace/remote desktop) my remote server (windows 2003). Since I changed ISP I cant reach it.
This is a tracert to the server from ...
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How is my ISP DNS hijacking AFTER all these precautions?
In IE9 when I search for anything my ISP hijacks google search and I get this result.
To add complication to this I've already changed the default DNS servers (OpenDNS) months ago. This only happens ...
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Speed issues of internet [closed]
I ahve been experiencing extremely slow download speeds for several months now and nothing seems to be working to resolve it. Our router status page states that the downstream connection sped is ...
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DSL speeds varying across different protocols
For a couple of weeks now I've been experiencing a very odd issue that I've never come across before and I've exhausted all possible solutions I'm aware of. Let me detail my problem further.
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Who provides the Internet service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs)?
I've been wondering recently about how the infrastructure of the Internet really works.
I know that I have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that supplies my connection to the Internet.
But what ...
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Could local ISP capture my location whenever i launch a VPN to a VPN server?
I am extremely concerned that my ISP collects any information once I am connected to a VPN server. For instance, as far as I know, when I start a connection to a HotSpotShield VPN server, an IP ...
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Is my MAC monitored? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is your MAC address revealed when you hit up a website?
Is the MAC address traceable to the ISP? Or any website?
If so can we hide the MAC address from a second person?
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Why does my privoxy log show lots of requests to updateservice.sonic.com/Ping.asp?
I installed privoxy as a transparent proxy on a gateway machine, and I have Sonic for an ISP. I'm seeing a lot of requests to http://updateservice.sonic.com/Ping.asp when I'm browsing random pages.
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How to affectively diagnose ISP throttling (or other ISP related issues) and what to do about it?
Though my question is a bit general, I imagine that there has to be a good, specific answer to my problem.
I, like many, am beginning to wonder if my ISP is throttling my home internet connection. ...
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How do I determine the IP address of my ISP's nameservers? (/etc/resolv.conf only shows the default gateway)
My home server is connected to the router. This is the output of the /etc/resolv.conf file
nameserver 192.168.1.1
How do I determine the IP address of my ISP's nameservers?
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VOIP (Skype, Lync) 'stutters' with my ISP. How can I prove it?
When I am on VOIP calls (Skype or Lync) most of the time the calls suffer quality issues where the person on the other end cuts out. 4 perfect seconds, then 1 to 1/2 a second of what the other person ...
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Accurately determine data usage on a metered Internet connection [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software to report internet traffic for home user
On my profile page of my ISP, I tracked that I used 100+ MB of data within 60 minutes of usage. During standalone ...
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How do i setup this ip for two location which will be using a same gateway as different subnet?
I have two public IP, they have not given me any subnetmask and gateway for those two. But in seperate they have given me one subnet mask/gateway as below:
217.91.227.x
217.91.170.x
To be use ...
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How can I tell if my internet speed issues are coming from my wireless router or from my ISP?
For the past couple of months I've been having major internet connection stability issues with my ISP (Charter).
I have their 100Mbps package, but most of the time the speeds are all over the place. ...
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DynDNS configuration - second to last packet is timed out during tracert
I have a NAS in a separate location which I connect into through a DynDNS domain I got for it. When I tracert to that DynDNS name, the following comes up:
1 3 ms 2 ms <1 ms ...
