Router Issues are Best Left Alone If you are a regular reader then you will have read my articles about Microsoft’s forced Windows 10 upgrade antics. Despite world-wide pressure to revoke this hard line approach Microsoft has not changed their current method of tricking people into this upgrade and it continues to catch users. In […]
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Getting the Right Backup Solution Continuing from last weeks’ topic on backup devices, today we explore the best ways to make a backup system work. Many backup drives come with their own software which can be not only convoluted to setup but also time consuming to maintain. Backup software is produced by many companies to […]
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Internet Connection Explained Continuing on from last week we are still looking at ‘wireless’ connections and start with what to do if your Wireless Internet connection is running slow. Here we are referring to Internet connections that are given names like 3G, 4G, 4GX, Next G, Wireless Broadband, Wireless Hotspot and even tethering. Last week […]
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Staying Up To Speed With Wireless Do you understand the difference between the following terms – Wi-Fi, Wireless Broadband, Fixed Wireless, 3G, 4G, 4GX & Bluetooth? Not many people do and it is little wonder that is the case unless you are dealing with these terms every day. All of the above are ‘wireless’ modes […]
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A Little ‘Charity’ Goes a Long Way The power of the press! One newspaper article can carry a lot of weight and save a lot of wait. I was most impressed when an Enterprise level marketing lady from Optus called me first thing on Monday morning – from within Australia. Not only did she speak […]
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Technology Continues to Evolve As the year rapidly draws to a close I can’t help but reflect on what it has meant for us working in the IT field. There have been heaps of new or refined technologies released in the form of both hardware and software and we can’t overlook all of the web […]
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Internet Times Speedily Changing We have had some good responses to the latest articles about NBN and ‘the Internet of things’ with several people asking for further explanation on why we need greater Internet speeds. This weeks’ article will attempt to answer that question in some more depth. At all times it needs to be […]
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Internet Upgrade Not Fast Enough For this third & final article about our ‘Internet Connection Speeds’, we look at what the NBN is or was promising. As pointed out previously, the underground copper cabling that was in some cases laid decades ago was never designed to carry the amount of information that modern and future […]
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Need for Speed is Snowballing Following on from last weeks’ article about Internet speeds, today we address the question “why all the fuss”. We have already seen Internet speeds increase from 40kbps to around 10000kbps for the majority of Australians in the last 15 years. The flipside here is the rate at which we find […]
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Internet: What Speed do you Need? Regular readers of this column will be aware of my own personal challenges with getting a decent connection at my own residence. After years of a good BigPond ADSL2+ connection I moved to Optus due to the dangled carrot of similar download speeds at a much reduced price. The […]
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