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wireless interface: usb or pci?

I have a router in my basement, and a desktop in the office upstairs, about 20 feet away through walls. With my laptop, which has a 5300 bgn card, i get a consistent 80% + signal with 100+mbps ...
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Windows 7 IE 8 changes color

In the tabbed view of IE window in Windows 7, at times the color of the tab changes to Red/green/yellow/blue. Does it convey any message to the user?
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How can I block all internet access on Ubuntu?

I want to stop being able to access the internet during my working day. Is there any tool that I can use to disable internet connectivity for a specified period of time? I'm using Ubuntu 10.04
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Shared Internet On LAN

I am on LAN and internet connection is slow because of multiple users. My connection is also coming from someone else. Can I control/get more speed than others? Is any software out there to do this?
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Share EVDO USB internet?

I have a wireless router to which all my PCs are connected. Previously i was using DSL to share internet, now i have EVDO wireless USB on one of my PC, i want to share that internet to all my other ...
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How to use one connection to the Internet for VPN and another for accessing other websites?

I have two network cards. If I connect to a network using VPN then to access other websites I have to pass through a proxy server. Is it possible to use my other network card to connect to the ...
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Windows7 Itermittent Network Connection

I have this network issue with windows7 on a laptop, the connection suddenly drops, sometime at laptop->modem, sometime at modem->isp, sometime both. The ADSL modem is on autodial and become DHCP ...
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no internet connection on terminal

I'm not sure what it's called but you know right before you login Ubuntu, you can hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and you get a terminal? That's what I'm referring to. The problem is that I'm not sure how to enable ...
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Losing internet connection after few minutes (5-10 maybe)

I took a computer that was not updated for months. Internet was working just fine so basically, I updated zonealarm, avast and installed all windows updates and especially SP3. After that, when I ...
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How difficult is it to trace a canadian dynamic IP?

I was wondering how easy it is to trace this back to the actual connection (house). Is it possible since it is dynamic and changes each time the modem is restarted? Does it make the task more ...
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Internet Federated web server?

I'm not sure what to call this... What I would like to do is have a web server that is capable of serving pages from separate servers across the internet (not a local network). eg, If I visit http:/...
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Windows update killed my internet connection [closed]

Im having major problems with a new windows update. On the latests update, my internet connection becomes broken. This is very abstract. The only way that I can fix it is to obviously do a system ...
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How can I prevent filesharing in an internet cafe?

Hey, I'm in a youth facility that has a small open internet cafe (12 PCs with Windows XP). They got a lawsuit after someone downloaded copyrighted content. We are now searching for solutions to ...
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Internet Sharing Through Proxy With Constraints

Internet Sharing Through Proxy With Constraints I have internet connection in my machine which is in LAN , host OS is vista . host computer has BSNL router attached to it. I want to share my ...
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Internet Connection problems with PPPoE over Fiber

I have a Fiber Optic Internet connection, where the Fiber Optic modem is connected to my Wi-Fi router. On every system that needs to connect to the Internet, I need to connect to the Wi-Fi router ...
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Limited connectivity on Windows Vista but Internet still works?

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2. I have my PC connected to a Belkin Router via an Ethernet cable. My network icon in the system tray shows an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle. When I ...
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Why is it so hard to connect with a cable modem and router?

I've gone through various combinations of cable modems, routers, computers, and apartments in my life, and one thing has always puzzled me. Why is it so difficult to get these things to connect to the ...
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How to make remote desktop work in corporate network

my work network has most of the connections closed. I can surf web but cant access webmail. I know that my IE uses some proxy server with port 8080. I want to connect to my home PC using RDP. I ...
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Recursively saving web pages

Is it possible to recursively save all pages on the web which depend on a particular page? Or do I always need to save them one by one?
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Internet connection only works with Macbook Pro

I'm having a bizarre problem with our internet connection in our temporary house. We have been given a cable modem with (i believe comcast) internet connectivity. If i plug my macbook pro directly ...
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Share internet in Linux

I have an 3.5G USB Modem that I want to share its internet connection in Linux. I tried already, but only got having no internet on my own PC, still without sharing it. It's really hard to find some ...
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Internet connection problem through python urllib2 and wget

I have recently shifted from behind the proxy to direct connection settings. I removed http_proxy and now my apt-get update and upgrade works fine but somehow I am not able o connect to internet ...
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Bypassing Trend Micro Officescan Online Website Monitoring

I get a free copy of Trend Micro Officescan from my university (the joys of being a computer scientist!), and I have it installed on my computer. Recently, it has started blocking a website that I go ...
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how do i measure my internet speed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Quick way to check my broadband speed. My internet connection says 920 kb/s. but it doesn't look 920. so how do i measure my real internet speed easily? both uplink and ...
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External Wireless for Laptop (Recommendation please) [closed]

My laptop didn't came with built in wireless internet connectivity (Is it called Wi-Fi?) so I would like to have one as an external or at PCMCIA port, Could you please suggest me your recommendations? ...
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Route Local Network through Server?

This may or may not be an easy question, as I'm somewhat uninformed in the networking side of computer science. I own a rented server with a static ip address. Is there a way that I can forward ...
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lsass and svchost should they access internet or not? On WXP-SP3

My Zone Alarm 8 firewall on WXP-SP3 is advising me: svchost.exe (Generic Host Process for Windows 32 services) lsass.exe (LSA Shell (Export version) both try sometimes to access internet. Should I ...
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All websites seem to work, except for those on the microsoft.com domain?

I found an old reformatted computer somewhere, with Windows XP installed. It's a bit faulty; I can't get the monitor settings to work on anything other than the lowest resolution. But that's not the ...
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Strange rendering across browsers

Suddenly getting strange rendering of some pages (iGoogle for example) regardless of browser. Some sites, like Reddit render fine. Clearly independent of browser, but not sure what's up.
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How can I limit my time online?

I have a PowerPC G5 with OS 10.5.8. I'd like to be able to automatically disable my internet connection after a set amount of time of usage (1.5 hours, 2 hours, whatever), but keep all programs usable,...
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Losing internet connection sometime after logging in

I am facing a strange issue of losing internet connectivity sometime after logging in. The only workaround seems to be restarting the system. Other systems on the wireless network sharing the internet ...
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Best way to transfer huge files over internet? [closed]

I have a set of audio/video files that I want to distribute to about ten people. There will be weekly additions to these sets of files. They are about 125MB total in size. What is the best method ...
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Cannot connect to internet with VMware running on Windows 7

My OS is Windows 7. I installed VMware version 7. I am running Mac OS X virtually. But I am not able to access to internet. I am using wireless internet in my host box (Windows 7). I also tried the ...
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is it possible to split network connection among applications?

For instance if I am connected to 2 networks (using XP) then, I launch 2 browsers: chrome and Fire-Fox. can chrome be bind to connection 1 et fire-fox to connection 2 ?
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Software to restrict web browsing to allow for productivity? [closed]

I check my e-mails too much. And from time to time I find a webpage that I keep checking too much (a forum thread and the likes). What tools can I use to restrict my access to these pages? (I use ...
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How to see if a program connects to the internet in Windows 7

I have a program which I think makes a connection through the internet, but I'm not sure. How can I see what it's connecting to and what kind of data it is sending and receiving?
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Home Network Speed Control

I have a home network installed in following way: Internet<->server<->switch<->computers,etc Server has DHCP server installed and I would like to be able to limit download&upload speed ...
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Downloading a large site with wget

I'm trying to mirror a very large site but wget never seems to finish properly. I am using the command: wget -r -l inf -nc -w 0.5 {the-site} I have downloaded a good portion of the site, but not the ...
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Share internet connection in OSX through existing wireless network?

It's easy to share your Internet with AirPort by checking "Internet Sharing" in the system preferences, but this option asumes you want to create a new wireless network. Is there an easy way to ...
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How are IP addresses assigned?

How are IP addresses assigned? What if someone from USA and someone from Australia connected to the internet at the same time - how would they not have the same IP address?
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How can I write a cron job that will block my internet from 7pm to 7am? (So I can get some sleep)

I am using OSX 10.6 and it has cron built in. How can I write a cron job that will block my internet from 7pm to 7am every day? Im sure this must be simple but I could only find one example online ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 No internet

I have Ubuntu 10.04 dual booted with Windows Vista on a work Lenovo R61 laptop. The home and work wireless connection were working fine. I lost all internet connection at work. The IT guy clearly knew ...
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What are the "static" elements of a website?

While loading stackoverflow.com ... waiting for sstatic.net While loading vark.com ... waiting for static.varkimg.com Is there some trend here? When it says "static", what all elements of the site ...
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DHCP Lease time

I have computer connected to internet directly. But once every hour IP changes and I do not want that for sure. How can I set IP lease time for like a year or so? Thank you
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internet access options in remote area? (read: no comcast,qwest, etc) [closed]

Currently I am living in a fairly "remote" area, in the countryside, and cable internet access through the typical companies like comcast and qwest is just not available here. I've been trying to ...
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Can I use my modem's ethernet and USB simultaneously, to connect two computers?

I have a Netgear broadband modem. I use a desktop and a laptop. I have connected the modem to the desktop by using their ethernet connectors. But I need internet on my laptop too. There is another ...
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Way to show internet shortcut files with thumbnail of target site

Is there a shell extension for Windows 7 (or some other way) that could let internet shortcuts show a preview of a the website instead the default static icon?
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I have 3 users on my computer. The internet works on 2 of them but not the third. How can this problem be sloved?

I have 3 users on my computer. The internet works on 2 of them but not the third. Downloading Firefox did not work. What should I do?
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Multiple "preferred" browsers - spawning certain browsers for certain 'regions' (XP)

I would like to be able to split my preferred browsers in Windows XP so that IE opens some sites (external), and Firefox opens all others (internal). Is there a way to do this in Windows XP?
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Password protected traffic meter

I have a small problem for which I haven't found a solution yet. I live in Bosnia and share the Internet connection with the landlady, and as is usual in Bosnia, we do not have a flat rate, but a 15 ...
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