Internet Definition and 319 Threads

For about 16 years, our home internet service has been via DSL, piggybacked onto our AT&T landline phone service. It's very slow, only 0.75 Mbps down. Apparently AT&T's infrastructure in our part of town doesn't support faster DSL. Until a few years ago, the main alternative was the local cable...

My ISP is Tigo Une from Medellín, Antioquía, Colombia i reset my modem before everything i will say in this POST message i did, i have a ARRIS TG2482A model name modem and when i entered in its configuration in " Lan Setup " -> " NAT " To " Nat Mode " i changed my configuration to " Bridged "...

Am on the 'net' quite often and for extended periods of time perusing scientific sites and historical ones as well. Have BSCE degree from California State University, military experience,and other professional history.

These are some - in my mind - useful insights I gathered over the years on PF. We have members from around the world, studying at universities around the world, in dozens of languages. The language of science nowadays is English, or as a guest professor at my alma mater once said in a terrible...

We all read/see/hear articles and discussions about how things on the Internet in particular, but even to some extent in "mainstream" media (to say nothing of right wing and left wing publications) can be misleading or just downright false. I was interested to see that, not too surprizingly...

For years, the term "scalar wave" has been swirling around the Internet. Posts typically describe "scalar waves" as capable of doing things that textbook electromagnetic signals cannot do, e.g. penetrate all shielding, opening up the possibility of really serious Earth-penetrating radar. I...

Have had very reliable internet in the ~ 2.5 years we have been in this home, using my purchased Modem/router. A few months back, we started getting intermittent drop outs (~ 10/day?), lasting a couple minutes each. Mostly would come back on their own, sometimes I'd have to reboot the modem...

I reckon most of the questions except HW which are asked here have been discussed in the past in some corner of the internet. I wonder what one can do to search for it effectively. Do you have any tricks up your sleeve which you use when you feel like you are not getting discussions you should...

This is embarrassing, All these yrs., I never use one for any design. I just want to make sure it is F type. I am talking just common tv antenna connector. I need to buy the crimping tool and everything, I cannot afford to make mistake. I searched, it should be F-type, just want to confirm...

hi.. I am using internet archives for searching a book. Normally the method of searching a book on internet archives is as follows-- we enter a word/ phrase/ book title that we want to search in the search tab and hit the search button, the result that is displayed are all the books that have...

Hi, I decide to get rid of all ATT. I am looking at internet provider. I know Hughesnet and Viasat are satellite that "supposedly" immune to natural disaster like storm, earthquake that can break the electric or F/O cables underground. BUT, is it true? I don't know how satellite connection...

I've been bothered lately with an excessive number of freezes and dropouts when trying to conduct meetings on Zoom. As many as 10 freezes with 5 dropouts in 15 minutes. I installed a tool to monitor my connection from my PC. In 4 hours, it gathered the following stats. General stats...

As of 2/2/2022 a very current M-class CME, which will light up auroras https://www.livescience.com/solar-flare-reaches-earth-wednesday Since these geomagnetic storms keep making news, let's take look... A massive X class CME from 9200 ya, came during a solar sunspot cycle minimum and would...

I'm impressed by this article. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/securing-your-digital-life-part-2/ It discusses more than just choosing passwords and more than Internet security.. Do you disagree with the article? Do you have additional security tips that you use?

+1 on that. I'm an old guy and I'm constantly amazed in a wonderfully pleasant way by the plethora of readily accessible information that we have today, and almost as equally amazed in a less pleasant way at the fact that there are still people who don't automatically take advantage of it. In...

This NY Times article describes a place in china where there are a lot of what amount to outside studio set-ups for Instagrammers and others looking for interesting things to post on. In this case "old time" China. By going to great lengths (similar to studio production methods), they attract...

From a NY Times on the life of Daniel Kaminski who discovered a fatal flaw in the internet and got the right people together to fix the problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html

Hello, I have been thinking about this and would like to se if anyone can provide some validation or corrections: The internet is a huge network interconnecting smaller networks. The smallest network would be classified as a LAN (local area network). WANs are instead big networks of networks...

I have a question if it would be possible to have a cellular network on Long-Fi? I have tried searching for information on the theoretical maximum bandwidth of Long-Fi; but, can't find anything. I also am unsure if the idea would be of interest to companies like Tesla to set up a hub connecting...

I just found this piece in an article: Terahertz waves (THz), which are submillimeter waves sitting between microwave and infrared light on the electromagnetic spectrum, have been used to achieve data rates greater than 100 Gbps. Unfortunately, THz waves share an Achilles’ Heel with the...

My password manager (Lastpass) just reminded me that I have more than 100 accounts that are "old", meaning that I have not used them for a year or more. For example, in the years that I lived on a boat, I bought from BoatUS almost every week, and I received substantial cash back rewards as an...

Recently I installed a https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NVN1WQK/?tag=pfamazon01-20 on our PC running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. The driver software that I installed is RD9700 USB to ethernet adapter driver. The problem: Every time the computer boots, the internet is accessible. I wait...

Is a PC free from viruses when disconnected with internet?

Hi, I remember some years ago I read a very informative news article online where a professor from some USA university was complaining about the doctorate students that how their research is so shallow these days. He was trying to relate it to the effects of internet. He was trying to point out...

Hello, I'm the head of youth scientific club at my High School. Because there's a pandemic going on, schools are closed and god knows when they reopen. Earlier before, I have a couple of programs that are being planned to produce scientific papers but they are all postponed. Now, all my...

I remarked that the worst possible thing that could happen to the world right now would be collapse of The Internet. That makes me reflect on how profoundly The Internet has changed our lives. Young people have never lived without it. For old people, it came late in our lives. Young or...

Summary:: "So about a year ago I started a compendium. Tweets, yes, but also videos, apps, memes… anything stimulating or arresting" - Ben Orlin A Compendium of Cool Internet Math Things Some of these are physics oriented.

Take the entire internet and download it into an android with free will. Daily give it updates by being connected via wires for 30 min a day (ultra fast downloading of content and virtually infinite memory storage capacity). What would he/she act like? Curious. Wanting to add data to what they...

Long story short: Sister has dial-up internet* on laptop, can't stream movies. Wants receive network cable to her laptop (wired or wireless) so she can watch movies outside without dragging the TV along. (I know it was once possible to buy a video card to slot into a desktop box that would do...

Fast, reliable high-bandwidth internet everywhere in the world - that is the promise of the upcoming satellite constellations. To get a good bandwidth with many customers this needs many satellites; to get a good latency they have to be in low Earth orbit (LEO). Existing satellites providing...

I just got my Kindle, I'm able to connect to the wifi easily, but whenever I try to get on the internet with it, nothing loads. Everything tells me I have no connection. When I connect to the same wifi with my phone, the internet works just fine. I've contacted both Amazon and my internet...

I got something i want to do for fun and help out a...person i know but i never finished high school so that's my degree level. i was wondering if there is a way under $100 to possibly use my internet or posibly 2 peoples internet connections on the other side of the town i live in, split up the...

A recent HackerNoon article delves into history on who created the internet: https://hackernoon.com/who-invented-the-internet-f06a7ffb7f3c

I used to use Kaspersky Internet Security/Total Security, but recently Best Buy has stopped selling it for some political reason. What are other software tools that are best in protecting computers from viruses and other cyber threats? Thanks in advance

I am desperately trying to bypass an internet filter that is installed on my computer Basically I want to watch iPlayer and Youtube videos and I can't seem to get round it Open to any suggestions

Shutdown and evacuation of Sunspot observatory: https://www.abqjournal.com/1219922/nm-solar-observatory-closed-authorities-mum.html Note the word "mystery" in the headline. The in charge people need a tune up on procedures for dealing with events like this. Especially when it comes to places...

Hi Starting from yesterday, both Internet Explorer and Chrome get very slow in responding. Firefox is ok. These are things I did and I am stuck: 1) I restarted the computer. Didn't help. 2) I use Norton anti-virus. Since both failed at the same time, I went onto Norton and manual update to the...

A recent headline story in the USA is that the Supreme Court decided in favor of requiring online sellers to collect state taxes - subject to certain restrictions on how the state facilitates this. What determines which state taxes apply? Is it the physical location of the buyer when the sale...

I am taking an online course on Analytics Modeling from Georgia Tech. The introductory section included a link to a list of core Netiquette Rules, which I find pretty useful.

Hello. I have found out that scientists are planning and have connected a human brain to the internet to create a brainnet. http://neurosciencenews.com/brain-internet-connection-7489/ http://www.businessinsider.com/brain-connected-to-internet-brainternet-2017-9?IR=T...

I have 50/50 mbps. I can get 150/150 for $22.00 extra per month. Plus I get some custom TV channels. Anyone think it's worth hit? Even putting aside the TV stuff, is that connection that much better? We have 4 devices (2 ipads, my laptop, and a satellite TV thing) using the internet...

I currently use my phone's data plan (T-Mobile) for doing some work on the road, but I have some larger projects coming up that could really benefit from being able to use a laptop. I still can't get used to texting/typing on the ultra small keyboard of a tiny cell phone and hate doing it...

The FCC's notice regarding possible net neutrality rulemaking got posted the other day: https://www.fcc.gov/document/public-notice-filing-comments-restoring-internet-freedom It's every bit as bad as expected. One thing we as citizens can do is submit "filings" on the FCC website. I submitted...

Hi All, I am just curious. I am in a coffee shop using the internet. My (external) IP address in this coffee shop ( given by whatismyip.com) is the same as the IP address assigned to me at home by my ISP. I thought IP addresses are assigned dynamically when one logs into a network and the...

Here's a new one, but in the past couple of weeks I have to reboot my windows to get the internet connection started up again. It happens with all my browsers installed, Edge (which I do not normally use), Firefox (my default) and Chrome (backup). Someplace a setting is hanging up or a driver...

The recent news about a denial-of-service attack (DOS) that came via the internet-of-things (IOT) https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ddos-iot-connected-devices-easily-hacked-internet-outage-webcam-dvr/ brings up the question: How are the boundaries between "the internet" and other forms digital...

I think most of us are appalled at the level of hate speech that we routinely see on the internet. This has prompted me to wonder if the root cause is not the expectation of anonymity. Why do we expect to be able to post things on the internet anonymously? If we say something in a public form...

Hello, Is there any number goes with our computer to internet ?

Hello! I am wondering if it is theoretically possible to allow a means of data transfer (or internet, etc.) by the idea of quantum entanglement. Correct me if I make any errors in understanding. But, by what I understand, in essence you could for instance run a computation on a quantum computer...

The Skype application is a useful one. It allows you to connect to other people with Skype all around the world for free. Now that we have the formalities aside, allow me to state the problem I am having. Since I have two Skype accounts--one for my friends on games, the other for a personal...