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Internet type question - 5/4/2011 5:33:19 PM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		As you know I am abnormal. I've noticed lately that some things are loading when I hit Google, which is my homepage. I've been to almost everything I could find on the Google page and right clicked and got properties. Each and every one says either something.google.com or something like that. What is loading does not.

I guess you could say I'm in training to be a virus hunter. However with the speed I get, I am about as useless as Elmer Fudd "Kiww da viwus" ! What I would like to do on a temporary basis is to slow my internet connection. I know it'll do at least four megs a second now, so I don't want to screw it up permanently of course.

But I can't read that fast, the only thing I can tell is that it's not anything I've ever seen before. So if I could somehow get the "baud" waaaay down, just for a short time, I could read this shit and figure out what it is.

Do not even mention getting virus cleaners and all that. I want to see the URLs so I can copy them. With any luck I can change the HTTP to FTP and get the actual file. Once to that point I can send it to the people who write AVG or something. I can probably also find it in my registry or something.

So that's what I want, slow the connection down to the point where I can read the bottom where eventually it says "done".

Sorry if I'm suspiscious, but you have to be. Also if I'm way off base here you can go ahead and tell me. But I would still like to be able to throttle my own internet speed. Is there something in there like messing with the MTU or something like in the old days ?

T^T
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RE: Internet type question - 5/4/2011 5:49:37 PM   
DomImus


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Status: offline 		Are you perhaps referring to "clients.google.com"? If so, I believe it's related to that stupid "feature" in Google that produces those stupid suggestions. It's annoying, yes. I've never quite understood why certain companies will produce a quality computer product then fuck it up in classic Micro$oft bloatware fashion. Google was a great search engine in its day. The old image search function was excellent but now they've replaced it with something that is essentially useless. It's about time for another search engine to rise to the top but then we'll have to lather, rinse and repeat eventually.




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RE: Internet type question - 5/4/2011 5:53:45 PM   
playfulotter


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Status: offline 		Well, google changed how things look when you "google different things" lately so maybe that is it....I googled it and found that out when I googled something lately the box's font was different when the found items came up...also you can't have all your buttons showing on the google tool bar anymore unless you ae logged into google....

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RE: Internet type question - 5/4/2011 7:28:52 PM   
mummyman321


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Status: offline 		Here is something to try:

I am assuming you have a DSL provider. Check if your interner provide provides a local or 1-800 dial up number. Many DSL providers offer the dial up option for when you are traveling and not have access to DSL or high speed.

At this point you can use a modem to connect over the phone. And you should be able to set the baud rate on your modem. This is doing it old school but it can be done assuming you have a dial up number and modem.

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RE: Internet type question - 5/5/2011 12:53:03 AM   
Termyn8or


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I appreciate the responses. In order :

It wasn't clients.google.com. I can read pretty damn fast. If the word google was down there it was way to the right where I couldn't catch it. I did it several times, and in fact it would do it whenever I hit refresh.

Google may have changed but I think one of the things that makes them so popular is the lack of bullshit. They do put their name on it though, if they do anyhting.

Unfortunately, even though some think I am running dinosaurs here (which I am) I don't even have a modem. I might have one laying around, a nice hundred dollar hardware driven modem. I futted with some settings and got a hell of alot more speed out of it than I probably shoulda. Modem speed wasn't limited by the capabilities of the modems, the limits were mandated because if they got too high the interference would've scrambled the whole mess. A few of us knew how to get past it. (if everyone did it the internet would be fucked back then) One trick was to tell it you were in Brazil. Another was to use the wrong modem drivers of you can find the right combination. I had a Jaton modem once and I used drivers for something else and got fantastic speed downloading. But I couldn't send, even an email with more than a few lines would crash if I tried to send it. I used this technique in my early downloading days. it made it MORE asymmetrical basically.  

Anyway the problem is solved. I would like to know where it came from. It was yontoo.com. It was a simple fix, just took it out in add/remove. We'll see if it comes back. Not exactly sure what it does, but it isn't doing it anymore.

I think it removed just a little bit too easily and quickly, so I am suspiscious. I WILL be watching for it.

Right now things are running like they just came out of the box. Thanks though, and I hope if anyone gets any benefit out of this they share it. My boss, prick that he is, has a saying. Sometimes when you are looking for elephants you miss the flea.

T^T

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RE: Internet type question - 5/5/2011 12:55:03 PM   
MercTech


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Status: offline 		By any chance.. do you use a Comcast company as an ISP?
Their proxy system is just MADE for logging all your web activity.

Stefan

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RE: Internet type question - 5/5/2011 4:31:29 PM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		Simple DSL, second tier I guess from SBC. Actually it's surprisingly reliable considering it's partly going through phone wires that were probably installed by Alexander G. Bell himself. But it's not the $15 a month kind.

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