Do You Know How to Monitor Your Internet Bandwidth ?

You might already know what an Internet monitor bandwidth tool can do for you and your personal computer, however do you know how to install it and how to use it later on? In case you are one of the many people curios on how to use such a beneficial program, you have surely reached the correct reading material, as I am going to tell you, today, what are some of the main steps you have to follow when installing and using a free Internet bandwidth monitor, downloaded from the Internet.

 

First of all, before you start doing anything, you must download the software from a web page. Make sure that the software you are going to download is going to match your operating platform and, in this way, you can make sure the installation process will go smooth, with no snags. In order to measure Internet bandwidth, you must first have the correct program for it. 

 

After you have downloaded the monitoring tool, you simply install the program on your personal computer, clicking “next” until the program has been fully installed. This is where the tricky part comes, as you are going to have to work on the settings, to be sure that you are going to see all the valid information regarding the Internet speed of your connection. 

 

Therefore, you go to the setting menu and click disabled on all the options you have there. This will leave your monitoring tool with no weapons and it is your duty now to equip your tool. You enable the following options in the settings menu: Auto Start, so that the program will start up at the same time as your personal computer, Auto Minimize so that the program will step out of sight, unless you want to see it again, and, of course, enable saving all these options.

 

You will very likely want to keep some special settings such as Local Machine enabling, the Incoming Data page, Incoming Totals, Outgoing Data and Outgoing Totals enabled. The Remote Machine, System Threads and CPU Usage can all be disabled as they are not key to finding out the correct Internet bandwidth.

 

After you have taken care of all these settings, all you have to do is simply click on the “check speed” or “test” button, depending on the type of program you use and, in such manner, you are going to have in front of you a graphical representation of the speeds your machine achieves. This is pretty much it and I do believe it is a simple task, at the end of the day. For more info, check http://internetbandwidthmonitor.net/. 

 

How to build your own web page

If you have no idea about registry domain and hosting, and you have no idea that Java is not only a tropical island but a programming tool as well, do not worry, I will show you the easiest way to have your own internet page.

 

First of all you will need a name, presumably a catchy one. You will have to find one that is not used by anybody else so research is very important at this stage. Usually people can get so far without my advice, but from here on it seems that only the tech-geek can understand the steps to follow.

 

In the project phase we need to ask ourselves how are we going to manage the DNS and where will we “host” our domain, if we want email addresses with our domain name (that always seems to be not only cool but also professional).

 

Well, you might think that you need to break-up the piggy bank for all of this, but no.

 

Let’s start by going to Google, then type a/cpanel/domain/new following the site's address bar (google seems to know a thing or two about web pages so it makes sense to start here. They’re also looking into making things dead easy for us.) 

You will have on this page two tabs. On the left you get the option to buy a domain name. Google gives you the option to buy .com, .org, .net, .info and .biz domain names so have your pick. Once you have chosen the name and performed the check you will continue to registration.

Registering with Google will give you:

One year domain registration for $10

Private domain registration to protect against spam at no extra cost

Full DNS control and domain management

Automatically configured to work with Google services

Email, calendar, instant messaging, web pages and more also at no extra charge

You will be asked to complete the billing form next and you are on your way. Total spent so far is around 10 bucks (taxes will vary on this amount depending on your country).

Why google? Why not? It is simple and effective, cheap and you get a lot of tools to help you.

You have now all you need to make your page. You need to sign in at google, by adding a/yoursite dot com in the address bar. (yoursite being of course the domain name you have just bought.) Login with the details that you have completed in the google form earlier and you are in the admin page. You can configure here mails (all powered by Gmail so no need to worry about ever running out of space) and of course you will have google sites. This tool is easy to use, (though it might take a few hours to get the pages to be in the order you wanted)and  templates will make you life a lot easier. 

From here on you have all the tools you need, youtube videos that can be inbeded, pictures with Picasa (and a few more that you don’t) to make you webpage look as professional as you want or as crazy as possible so you and your friends can have a laugh.

Don’t forget to check out Google ads – who knows you might end up making a lot of money too if your page is popular. http://domainandsite.com/ provides more info about this topic.