Saturday, September 24, 2011

Why Do I Get a Dropped or Slow Connection?

Why is my Connection Slow or get Dropped?

There are many reasons, why you may experience a slop or your connection drops.

The stability of a connection is affected by the quality of the communication that occurs between two modems; the clearer the communication, the more stable the connection. Some of the variables that affect the way modems communicate with each other are as follows:
    1. The Clarity of your phone line.
    2. The Signal on a phone line can be degraded as a result of weather
    3. The distance between your home and the phone company's switching equipment
    4. Electrical interference or anything else that affects the transmission of electrical interference
    5. High Voltage copper wires that affects the transmission of data to your PC or network.
    6. Lots of spicing along your phone line or poorly spliced wires. That is why you get a disconnection
        when it rains
A lot of poorly spliced cables along your phone line can be a problem

    7. Defective jack. (RJ11, RJ45)

If  you hear static on the line when you attach a regular phone, it is a sure sign that you have a noicy line, but the lack of static is not a proof that your phone line si clear enough to establish a high speed connection. In Some parts of the country, customers can have the local company "Condition" the line to ensure that the phone line is performing optimally, but even that is guarantee, if your home is a long distance call from the phone company's switching equipment.
The compatibility of the two modems. Despite the fact that modems communicate according to standardized protocols, modem manufacturers implement those protocols
differently. Consequently, a modem manufactured by one company may not communicate well with a modem manufacturer by a competitor. To increase the likelihood that your modem is performing optimally, make sure that you have the latest modem drivers installed and are using the right modem initialization string.
The Configuration of you TCP/IP software. Your TCP/IP software tells you computer how to communicate with your modem. If it is configured incorrectly, it will produce errors that will degrade the stability of you connection.
How well you TCP/IP soffware loaded into the system at start-up. Sometimes the quality of a connection can be improved by restartging you computer. Chronic  problems with your TCP/IP software, however, may be rectiied by unistalling and reinstalling the TCP/IP system software.

Additional telephony devices (fax, phones, answering machines, splitters, etc) may be producing interference on the phone line, even if they're in a different room. Try disconnecting them and trying to establish a connection again.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Increase Your Wireless Internet Connection Security Tips

 Best7 Tips to Increase Your Wireless Internet Connection Security

Wireless high speed internet connection is the best way of sharing network connection with another device with the help of a wireless router for service (signal) broadcasting, wireless internet connection is also one of the best and fastest and cheapest means of networking because it doesn’t require you to connect cable to the port or connection of one Ethernet cable to the other in order to send out network signal to other computers.

The networking aspect of a wifi internet connection is done as a wire-free method of sharing network access, all the component of the connection has been networked through a wireless device known as wireless router though, you’ll still need to connect your Ethernet cable to the wireless router and then to your computer port in order to get internet access before the router can now broadcast it out to other computer devices within the range but sharing a wifi internet connection can result into some certain dangers that can affect your wireless internet connection and by knowing some of those things, it will become much more easier for you to use your wireless internet connection without any faults and also to increase its speed noticeably.

Tips to Increase Security of Wireless Internet Connection

1. Enable Systems Security Encryption 
            1. All wireless router has the features of enabling encryption, you should check the user manual or the
                imprint page of the   manual to learn how you can enable security encryption on your home wireless
                internet connection.
            2. After learning it, if it happens that your router has WEP and WPA encryption option.
            3. It is advisable to choose WPA instead of WEP because it is exposed to online hacking software
                that usually breaks down your network password within a short seconds to allow unauthorized
                access possible.
2. Turn Off Network Identifier Broadcasting
            1. You also need to turn off your Network identifier, which is also known as Service Set Identifier
                 (SSID).
            2. Once you switch off, your network will automatically stop sending signal to the internet in general
                and  this will keep it to be in hide mode.
            3. This will help you to browse conveniently without anybody interfering into your connection’s ability.
3. Use Good Anti Spyware and Firewall Software Frequently
            1. Having a good and up to date Antivirus and Anti Spyware software installed on your computer has
                proved to be one of the major solutions to virus attack because a good antivirus will help in
                scanning your computer for any deposit of virus so as to fight against them in most cases.
            2. Your antivirus can only work better if you are updating it frequently.
4. Use Strong Password
            1. When you’re trying to increase the performance of your wireless internet connection, one of the
                things you need to take proper care about is the issue of username and password.
            2. If you take the issue levity, things can go out of hands for you but if you use the normal approach by
                changing the default ‘Admin’ name to your desired username which is unique to you and also use a
                password that has  the combination of lower and upper case letters with numeric figures.
            3. With this it will be very difficult for any hacker to jump on your internet connection, although, there
                are many  software programs online that can hack wi-fi connection password and username.
            4. If you don’t want to fall victim of this, you must make it an habit to be changing your password and
                username at least two times in a month.
5. Enable MAC (Media Address Control) Filter Features
            1. There is nothing better for a human being to be able to choose what he/she wants or needs, in
                order to get the very best from your high speed wireless internet connection you should also think
                about using MAC with your wifi net access – this feature helps you to be able to list out in details
                the name of the computer or portable devices that you’ll like to have access to your wireless
                internet connection (think of your child’s computer, daddy’s palmtop or mummy’s smart phones
                etc).
            2. This option works just like a blacklisting option that makes it easier for you to black list any
                connection from  accessing your network and also to add the device that you want to connect to
                your internet connection.
           3. And by defaults, each computer that you add to this features has its own name and address on the
               network and if it happens that a computer that doesn’t have any address and name is trying to
               access the connection.
           4. The network connection will be denied until when you as the admin add the computer to the
               enabled list.
6. Check Your Network Computer Regularly for Abnormal Usage
           1.  If you’re sharing your wireless internet connection among your peers or neighbors, you should
                make sure to check on them at least twice in a week so as to know what and how much they have
                consumed in terms of  bandwidth and speed consumption, know if one of your network user is
               downloading too much applications or  files from the internet and if the person doesn’t change from
               doing so; you can disconnect him/her from your  connection with the example at number one above.

7. Position Your Router to Minimize Signal Strength
            1. Your router positioning can cause a decline in the speed and the amount of service it broadcasts
                and by re-positioning it and putting it near to the centre of your house, will increase its functions
                and you also make sure not to keep it closer to your window.