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TRACKING YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION
Test Your Connection
PASSWORD SHORTCUT 

TRACKING YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

If you've ever wanted a visual representation of the quality of your Internet connection, you can use the System Monitor in Windows 98 to take a look.

Open the System Monitor by going to Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Monitor.
As you can see, the System Monitor is a graph that displays information of your choosing.
To display information about your Dial-up connection, go to Edit, Add Item and click Dial-up Adaptor (you'll need to connect to the Internet first.)
Choose which kind of information you wish to display in the right box and then click OK.
System Monitor begins tracking the information you've selected. (TOP)

Test Your Connection

Even if you have a 56Kbps modem, you won't connect at 56K every time.
In fact, every time you connect to your ISP, it will probably be at a different speed.
There's not much you can do about this -- your modem connects at the fastest speed that your ISP and the phone connection allows at the time.

Try Net.Medic [http://www.ins.com/software/medic/index.asp], a browser companion that helps monitor, isolate, diagnose, and correct Internet or intranet performance problems.
Net.Medic helps you identify the source of your network bottleneck, offers solutions for any problems you may have, and often fixes them automatically for you. (TOP)
http://www.ins.com/software/medic/index.asp

PASSWORD SHORTCUT

Can't remember Web site passwords?

Many of the passwords required by sites are not critical. When I save a Favorite
(Select Favorites, Add To Favorites)
for an item such as a forum that requires a password,
I type the password at the end of the shortcut name.

Then all I have to do is look at the Favorites to see my password.
Obviously, you'd never put your bank password there, but plenty of others are less sensitive." (TOP)

Being John Makulowich

John Makulowich's Awesome Lists [http://209.8.151.142/awesome.html] began as an answer to questions like "What's so interesting about the Internet?

Can you really find anything useful there?" It consists of links -- divided into two lists,
A (the truly awesome) and B (the merely awesome)
-- that show the incredible diversity of cool sites on the Web. (TOP)

http://209.8.151.142/awesome.html

We would like you to submit your ideas. 

Please E-Mail us:  bug@barrieusersgroup.org
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