There are many apps in Android that keep accessing the internet all the time. For example, email, magazine and news apps keep checking for the updates every few minutes and download data when such updates are available. This becomes a problem when you are going on a long journey and want your monthly mobile data Read More …
There are dozens of services that can show you the internet download and upload speeds for you. For example, there is Fast.com offered by Netflix using which you can instantly find out your internet download speeds in your web browser or through the Fast.com app. But these services do not display the data transfer rates Read More …
Google has created a new app named Datally for Android smartphones that is going to save the expensive mobile data in a very intuitive way. This app does not depend only on a VPN or proxy app that compresses the images and other downloaded files in order to reduce the data usage, but it also Read More …
Back in the 90’s and early 2000’s geeks usually gathered together to lament about the poor quality of their internet connections and how AOL dial-up was robbing them blind. There were some kids who knew how to make the connection faster by cleaning the telephone wire connections and reattaching them. There were electronic circuits floating Read More …
When people talk about a dial-up internet connection, suddenly everyone starts thinking of the decades old dial up modems from US Robotics (that gave a maximum of 56 kbps download speed), AOL dial up internet connections and the strange phone dialing sound that came from these modems. These days almost no one uses that kind Read More …
I sometimes hang out at a popular online web chat service called YouNow and enjoy talking to some of my friends there. And usually I do not have to worry about the cost of the internet as I have unlimited broadband at home. But when I am outside my house and using the mobile internet (3G Read More …
The mobile networks latch on to some other mobile operator’s network when you are not in the area of your own mobile network operator. This is called roaming and it results in extra charges when you make calls, receive calls and use the data services. So if you have been using 3G data connection from your subscribed mobile Read More …
I recently bought a new TP-Link WiFi router for home use and told the WiFI access point password to my next door neighbor Janet and her sisters, thinking it would have no effect on my 8 mbps connection. But I was completely wrong. Only in a few days time, I started to face difficulties opening up simple websites in Read More …
These are the wild days for the internet users – the internet access can be free, cheap and costly at the same time in the same city. For example, you can access the internet for free through the Wi-Fi access points, the ADSL internet is cheap these days, but if you take a wireless data Read More …
I am used to connecting to the Internet using my ADSL router which conveniently displays the network and internet activity using a few blinking LEDs. But when I use a simple data card to use the 2G/3G/4G or Wi-Fi connections on my Windows computer, I am totally clueless as to what is happening. The data Read More …