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Free Web Hosting
- In terms of ease-of-use, flexibility, and reliability, three free web page
hosting sites fit our needs. Besides these you get upto 2MB of storage space to host and
step-by-step online help.
- It is very easy to set up a page, after providing usual personal information you
can begin building a site. These sites have some drawbacks. You might not be comfortable
with some one else's ad on your web site. If you wanted to create Home pages for fun you
might have a look into this table.
Service |
Angelfire |
Geocities |
Ts2k |
Tripod |
Webspaver |
Pros |
Traffic |
Good Page Features |
Friendly |
Friendly |
Easy Setup |
Cons |
not much help |
Strict guidelines |
Limited Storage |
Fee based e-mail |
minimal
free service |
Storage |
200k |
2MB |
10 pages; 3pages if not 3com customer |
2MB |
25K |
Tutorials & Help |
HTML code editior
limited Help |
HTML code editor |
none |
good |
Limited
help |
Permanent E-mail |
no |
yes |
no |
3$ per month |
no |
- Apart from that 3$ per month more you will get 12MB of space and free email
ID and other benefits as Premium member. So, clearly Tripod is my choice.
MTU-Speed
- This shareware utility magic did a good job for me. You can download it from
Freeware site. It enables to change the Registry settings to maximize the surfing speed.
Before installing this utility, you must do two things. First you should backup your
registry. (basically copy your system.dat and user.dat files into Floppy disks) Second
read Sutherland's Home page for full information about mtu, rwin, ping. You might not
understand everything, but atleast.
- Matter of fact, before Installing this utility, my internet connection was 28,000
kbps speed, after that it connected to 31,200kbps. I was really astonished by that.
This updated version works on Windows NT and Windows 95 also.
Sutherland's
Home page
Net-Lightning
- It is another utility from Windows95.com same
as MTU-Speed, I find it is quite easy and simple way to tweak the speed. Net lightning not
only does MTU speed and RWIN, it also helps to edit your hosts file to get your most
visited sites quicker and faster. It also allows to backup the Windows Registry.
Click here to download Net-Lightning
What can modem do for you ?
Here some of the tips, articles and facts about dial-up networking which I
collected from different sites and magazines. I found it might be useful to others who
still have MMX and old Pentium computers.
- If you are using dial-up networking still this Windows Magazine tells how to
tweak your connections and optimize your connection performance.
Click here to read Speed Dialing article.
- Get a real and better Internet Service Provider (ISP). Check out frequently your
ISP's home page for any updates in their connect- ion software and download it. It might
make little faster.
- If your UART (chip on the internal modem) is 16550 compatible and you have
Windows 95, try changing up the Receive Buffer settings. Select START, CONTROL PANEL,
MODEMS icon, Click Properties, then the Connection Tab. Under Port settings drag the
sliders up to increase the send and receive buffers to maximum and speed up your
performance.
- Learn more about modem and what should check before buying the modem. Don't
forget to read this windows magazines special column. Read
2500+ tips about hardware and how to optimize performance.
- If you are using a 33.6 or 56-kbps modem, try changing the port speed to 57,600
or 115,200bps. Select START, CONTROL PANEL, then open SYSTEM, DEVICE
MANAGER,PORTS. Double click the COM port that your modem is connected to, and
select PORT settings.
Check the Advanced Tab and make sure Flow Control settings is set to
'Hardware'. This puts your modem instead of software in charge of data sent and
received.
- Downloading files from an FTP site can be up to 10 times faster than from a
non-FTP server. Speed up browsing by reducing the amount of data downloaded.
- Turn off automatic image loading, disable Java. It really speeds the surfing.
- Opera Software based in Norway, develops an internet web browser for Microsoft
Widows Environment. This Opera browser doubles the internet browsing speed. Read Jim Seymour in PC Magazine -- Project Magic update "I
could take another 2000 words to tell you everything about Opera".
- Defragment process speeds up loading the application. As you surf the web,
everything you see is stored on your hard disk in a cache, so you can flip through
previously viewed pages faster. Start menu, Programs, Accessories, look in System tools
for Disk Defrag.
- By replacing your browser cache with a program like PeakSoft's PeakJet you may be able to increase
browsing speeds. While you are busy reading online, PeakJet loads up links. Free for 30
days.
- To find out how speed an Internet connection is or to determine possible
problems, use tracert. Type this command in at the DOS prompt to see a map of your journey
across the Net to a particular Web site. To do so, connect to the Internet, open a DOS
window and type in tracert www.somewhere.com using
the name of the server you are trying to reach. You will get a detailed listing of the
entire path you are taking from your server to the desired site.
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