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clairxMemberseahorse;212966 wrote:Can someone please tell me if I am chatting on AIM with a friend is there anyway a third person can be reading it without our knowledge?? Thanks for any help!!
Yes, and if you are using wireless at school, work or the local cafe everyone else on the wireless can see your stuff too. I always use a personal vpn to prevent this and keep my conversations private. It basically encrypts your whole connection so everything goes to a remote server hundreds of miles away before hitting the internet unencrypted. Nobody near you can see anything you are doing. I like knowing that people around me can’t spy on me.
clairxMemberThere are many factors that will cause a trace route to fail. Servers may be set to ignore incoming requests or they may not be set to respond to UDP. UDP packets are essentially one way and if they fail to reach their destination they just fail unlike TCP. If network congestion exists it is possible for all the packets to be lost and not reach their destination. At the end of the day neither ping or trace route have much to do with the speed of your connection.
Try the master DNS servers 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. I think you’ll find them faster. These servers are well distributed and a server node is likley close to you making for low latency.
clairxMemberDavid;230685 wrote:Yeah, the government is watching us all, the moon landing was fake, and your hat is nice and shiny.All I said was that the quality was going to get better and the coverage was going to get better. So you can’t go by what it does today but you have to look into the future. What’s that got to do with moon landings 40 years ago? But some tin foil might keep the sun from getting to you like it seems to be from your reaction to the absolute facts regarding the technology getting better.
clairxMemberDSl does not equal a static IP address. In fact it would be odd for a DSL provider to hand out fixed address as they are usually an extra charge feature. However, the DHCP server that renews your address may be giving you the same address over and over again as it renews the lease giving you the impression that you have a fixed address. This would also apply to cable modem users. A lot of ISP’s though rotate addresses frequently to keep you from putting up a server on their network.
clairxMemberYou can’t go by what it does today. You have to assume this is just the start and eventually will evolve into much more.
clairxMemberI’ve been using Ad-Aware for a while with good results. I always felt Spybot was not quite as good when comparing the two side by side.
clairxMemberSeveral of us who work in the UAE use Surfbouncer (surfbouncer.com) with our ip softphones.
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