All Blog Posts Tagged 'dsl' (6)

Troubleshooting an internet connection for most people can be an often frustrating task. A persons internet will one day slow down or go down completely and they feel helpless. They will call their ISP and complain and not really understand why they're spending so much money on a connection that seems so slow or doesn't work. The first instinct is to call the ISP (Internet Service Provider) when there are many things one can do before calling. These posts will be my attempt at empowering those… Continue

It was one of the basis for casting my vote for President Obama. Now where is it? All of your internet providers get a stimulas funding boost, they raise the price that you pay and there is still not a internet service any faster than the dialup that I have now. What is the deal? Can anyone please tell me what am I waiting for? Continue

I woke up this morning to find that my internet was not working; I thought that a simple reset of the modem and router would do the trick, but it didn't. So I plugged a phone into the jack that the modem was plugged into and I had a dial tone. So I decided to call tech support to see if there was an outage at my local DSL station, they claimed that everything was fine and working as normal. I finally got through the usual press 1 for tech support and all of that fun phone menu stuff. A tech s… Continue

Recently, svidal as he is known in the Geeks community or inf in the #Chris chatroom, had a problem with Verizon DSL and connecting to the internet with his Linksys router. Despite popular belief, you do not necessarily have to call their tech support in order to get your router up and running. You can do it yourself. The following is a step by step tutorial on how to Bridge your modem and connecting your Linksys router to the Internet.… Continue

Today it is normal for a person to consume around 15GB a day on the internet with so much good content and so many ways to download it. Well some ISPs were mad that their costumers were taking too much data in, which made their servers work harder. So first it was Comcast that capped their customer’s internet to a reasonable 250GB a month. But now AT&T is launching a metered billing trial in Reno, Nevada. AT&T’s internet speeds range from 768 kbps to 6 Mbps, so you would see caps ranging… Continue

Yesterday, on the unofficial Geeks.Pirillo.Com Ventrilo Server, I found out about something. A Friend of mine, called Chronidus, directed me to a service called OpenDNS. DNS stands for 'Domain Name Server'. Basically, when your Internet Browser, goes to a webpage, such as "http://Geeks.Pirillo.com/", it contacts your ISPs (Internet Service Provider, like Comcast, or FiOS) DNS. The DNS then proceeds to translate that text add… Continue