Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

How Fast an Internet Connection Do You Need?

Many ISP’s offer a number of different internet access plans that offer different connection speeds. Usually the faster the connection the higher the price. Not everyone needs the fastest plan though. Depending on what use you intend making of your internet connection you may be able to save money by selecting a slower plan. How [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

How Domains Work

Another in my series of articles aimed at those new to the internet this article provides some basic information on how domain names work in getting you to the web site that the domain name belongs to. How Domains Work

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Bandwidth

I had a one day class that I used to teach at the local college on “How to get the best value from the internet”. Even though I no longer run that class, you will still get part of the benefit as part of the material for the class is available online. One such article [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

What Time is it?

Things can get very complicated when it comes to working out the current time in connection with things on the internet such as web pages and emails. There is the current time where you are. There is the time where the server is where a web page is hosted. There is the time at the [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2012

Testing your Network Connection

When you can’t connect to another computer on your local network or the internet then there are a number of possible causes. The first step is to work out where the problem is and to do that we need to use commands that will test the network connection and tell us a bit more about [...]

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Choosing a Graphics Format

There are hundreds of different graphics formats out there used by one computer program or another. Many are exclusive to the one program and can’t be read by any other. There are a few formats though that are supported by many different graphics programs. In this article I discuss the formats suitable for both internet [...]

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Internet Port Numbers

Internet Protocol uses what are called “port” numbers to identify different types of communications on the web. Programs ‘listen’ on particular ports to identify the traffic that is intended for them. This article provides a brief introduction to what port numbers are all about and identifies the ports used by some of the most commonly [...]

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Saving Money on the Web

From suggestions on how to work out the best value internet hosting plan to knowing where to look to get the best prices on your internet purchases (and what you might get free), here is a whole load of suggestions on what to do to save money with all your computer, internet, and web related [...]

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

Moving ISPs

Switching from one ISP to another when you have a broadband connection does not necessarily mean that you will have a period of time in between without internet access. You just have to requerst the move the right way. Moving ISPs

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Connections

Continuing on with the same theme from yesterday, here is an article covering the different types of internet connection that you may be able to choose from (depending on where you live).

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Sharing an Internet Connection

In this article on dial up internet connections we look at how we can use internet connection sharing to provide access to the internet from multiple computers on a network while only requiring one of them to have a modem attached. Sharing an Internet Connection

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Computer Classes

My college classes for term four have now been scheduled by the college. Get in early by booking for the classes you want now. My college Computer Classes