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What Setting To Tweak To Get A Faster Internet Speed?

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The best way to get a faster Internet speed depends a lot on what type of Internet connection you have. If you try to use the same method to get a faster Internet speed on both dial-up and fiber optic, the dial-up will run faster but the fiber optic will run slower, so it’s very [...]

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How To Setup Gigabit Ethernet

February 1, 2011

Gigabit ethernet promises to be 10 times as fast as typical wired networks, but it can require a complete replacement of your existing networking equipment. Here we’ll describe the benefits of gigabit ethernet and describe everything you’ll need to make the switch.
The Benefits of Gigabit Ethernet

Typical ethernet, also called fast ethernet or 100BASE-TX, can send a maximum of about 12 megabytes a second from one computer to another. Gigabit ethernet can send 120 megabytes a second–making it 10 times faster. It’s called gigabit because it sends 1 gigabit a second, but most computer users think in terms of bytes–not bits–and it takes…

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How to connect two computers to a broadband modem

May 26, 2010

If you have a broadband modem or one that is supplied from your internet service provider (ISP) you can most probably connect two computers to it without needing a router. If you look at the picture of my modem below, it has a USB (blue) and a ETHERNET (yellow) port. Of course there are many [...]

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