Author: Shiva Charan Devabhaktuni

Well if you have subscribed for a monthly package of 10Mbps or more and are using Windows 7 or 8 then by default you wont be getting the connection speed you were promised of. There is a small trick to get it back as the default settings are set to below 10Mbps in your adapter, this effects your connection speed. To get your original connection speed all you have to do is follow the following steps and you are done.

Steps to increase Internet speed

• Go to your CONTROL PANEL –> NETWORK AND INTERNET –> NETWORK CONNECTIONS and Right-Click on your current Network and select Properties.
• Open the Networking tab now, click on the Client for Microsoft Networks option and click on the Configure button on the right side of your Dialogue Box.
• Now select the Advanced tab and select Speed & Duplex.
• It’s default value is 10Mbps Half Duplex. Change it to Auto Negotiation or 1Gbps Full Duplex and click on OK to save your settings now.

Testing Internet speed

That’s it, now restart your browser and your modem if you have one, that is. Note the this method is only useful for Ethernet Cable connection type of Internet and not WiFi. Download a file now and see the difference in the speed now, your Torrents will also be downloaded faster after the above trick. Please feel free to comment about this below.

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Battery backup through the generations has been the main parameter people look for when they are going for portable devices, be it Smartphones or Laptops or Notebooks or Ultrabooks or Tablet PC’s. How to understand Laptop’s Battery backup with its given ratings is a questions that is raised by many today. It depends on two ratings mainly. To choose a device that gives you a better backup you need to know these two ratings given below.

Laptop Battery Rating

• Whr
• Ah rating

Whr which is actually Wh is nothing but the SI Unit of Power multiplied byTime(hours, minutes & seconds). For a better understanding let us take an example of the Dell Inspiron 15R laptop it has two options wherein one is a 40Whr battery which comes by default with the laptop and the other is a 65Whr 6-Cell Battery which you will have to buy separately. As the number itself suggests the later configuration gives a longer battery life than the former configuration.
The Second part is that batteries are usually rated in Ah(Amphours). For example a 50Ah battery like the general car battery can give 50Amps for an hour or 10Amps for 5hours, etc. By general knowledge you must have understood by now that Ah is not the amount of power supplied by a battery but instead it is the amount of Amps that is supplies by it. Though generally the batteries are given an Ah rating it doesn’t give the power supplied by the battery because,
                                                    Power = Amps x Volts = Watts

Now, we have to understand that Power is the rate of Energy being supplied, so the product of Power and Time gives you the Energy being given by the Battery.
                                                    Watts x time = total amount of energy supplied

Hope that Whr or Wh and Ah rating make more sense now. So, next time you buy yourself a laptop or any other portable device of that sort, do look for the battery rating.

Ever thought of blocking a specific site on your system? Well if you have and don’t know how to, then this tutorial will show you just how easy it is do that! You will need the following first:

• A Windows PC
• Administrator account must be logged on. Now go to your Primary Drive where your Operating System has been installed and then go to Windows–>System32–>Drivers–>etc.
  Now in this etc folder you will find a hosts file names host.Copy this host file and paste it anywhere and then open it using a word editor like notepad for example.
  Now add the name of the website you want to block, for example you want to block facebook.com after the line ” 127.0.0.1 localhost  “, add ”127.0.0.1 facebook.com “.This will redirect the user back to your local IP address when ever facebook.com is contacted by the user of that computer. The lines starting with a ” # ” in the host file are all lines meant for commenting as it is already mentioned by default in your host file. Now save the file and then replace the hosts file in the etc folder discussed above with this. You will be asked whether you want to replace it with your new host file, then click on proceed. Now try opening the site in your browser and see the difference for yourself.