Friday, June 6, 2008
Solutions for the ISPs - Innovative and Cost Effective
Voice over IP, or VoIP as it is commonly called, is one of the most important developments of recent times. In VoIP, phone calls are made using the medium of the Internet. The process is quite similar to the way we send and receive emails. However, the voice data is converted into digital data packets, compressed, and then routed over the Internet.
Business solutions that are based on this facilitating technology therefore can reduce the telecommunication costs of organizations quite significantly. As a matter of fact, businesses are increasingly switching to VoIP and high-end solutions in this domain to enhance their profit margins in the context of an increasingly competitive market scenario.
The exorbitant costs of making long distance calls using the traditional phone systems are now a thing of the past. Businesses-especially the smaller ones-are reaping in significant savings in their infrastructural costs by making the right switch to business VoIP solutions.
The VoIP business solutions that are currently available are tailor-made to cater to the needs and requirements of business establishments. With features such as 3-way conferencing, unified email access, voice mail and comprehensive messaging options, the solutions are turning out to be perfect in different circumstances. ISPs for instance, are making the most of these high-end solutions and networking systems to bring in more efficiency within their organizational structures. The ISPs can source these solutions from quite a few ISP solution providers servicing this market segment. As a matter of fact, the ISPs can make the most of the highly volatile and competitive market conditions and benefit from some amazing deals and offers.
The infrastructural requirements while using these solutions are also very minimum. The providers ensure that the organizations making a switch to VoIP are able to do so with the least possible changes in other areas. These solutions are easy to implement and integrate-a fact that makes them all the more valuable.
However, all said and done, the onus rests on the service providers to assess their individual requirements before making a final decision on any one of the multitude of ISP solution providers that are available. They can also compare the costs at which these services are being offered; and accordingly make a decision that optimizes their profits subject to their budgetary and other constraints.
With one such solution in place, half the work of the Internet service providers are already done. They have to just follow the guidelines and enjoy the multitude of benefits that VoIP entails. With round-the-clock technical assistance, there is little more that a business user could wish for.
Moreover, the providers of Internet Telephony solutions for ISPs ensure the latest and the best features and that too at highly competitive prices. Special features such as voice mail, call conferencing, and call waiting, for instance, are very much required by service providers and business users wanting to maintain a clear channel of communication with their end users and customers. It can be said that the business ISP solutions offer new doors of communication, wherein business users are able to facilitate quite a lot of their business needs in a more thorough and comprehensive manner.
To know more about these solutions, visit: ISP solution providers offering enhanced quality VoIP Solutions
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Just What Is Optical Carrier (OC) Bandwidth?
Ever wonder just what the heck was an "OC48"? Not surprisingly many network engineers and IT managers aren't up to speed (no pun intended) on just what OC really means...and what all is available to enahnce their company's applications within this bandwidth category.
So....here's a quick run down to set you straight.
The OC (optical carrier...fiber optic based broadband network )hierarchy goes as follows, starting with a T3/DS3 electrical carrier and then on to an OC-1:
DS3 (Electrical) = 44.736mbits/sec = 28 T1s/DS1s
STS1 (Electrical) = (1) DS3 @ 44.736mbits/sec with SONET (Synchronous Optical NET) overhead = 51.840mbits/sec
OC-1 (Optical) = (1) STS1 on Optical facilities
OC-3 = (3) OC-1s = 155.52mbits/sec
OC-9 = (9) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 466.56mbits/sec
OC-12 = (12) OC-1s or (4) OC-3s = 622.08mbits/sec
OC-18 = (18) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 933.12mbits/sec
OC-24 = (24) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 1.244gbits/sec
OC-36 = (36) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 1.866gbits/sec
OC-48 = (48) OC-1s or (4) OC-12s or (16) OC-3s = 2.488gbits/sec
OC-192= (192) OC-1s or (4) OC-48s or (16) OC-12s or (64) OC-3s = 9.953gbits/sec
The reason for the stair-stepping of the OC Hierarchy is due to the fact that the next available level of multiplexing ('muxing") of lower-level circuits is usually 4: (4) OC-3s = (1) OC-12, and (4) OC-48s = (1) OC-192.
This muxing scheme is usually dictated by the equipment manufacturers and is pretty much an adopted standard in the Telecom industry - hence the lack of the lesser-common bandwidth aggregations like OC-9, OC-18, etc. The only exception is the OC-3, which was needed to allow the upper-level hierarchy to work.
Hope this tidbit of info helps the network design decisions for your business now....and in the future!
Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications....including DS3-Bandwidth.com and Business-VoIP-Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, insights, and ramblings for the masses.
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Just What Is Optical Carrier (OC) Bandwidth?
Ever wonder just what the heck was an "OC48"? Not surprisingly many network engineers and IT managers aren't up to speed (no pun intended) on just what OC really means...and what all is available to enahnce their company's applications within this bandwidth category.
So....here's a quick run down to set you straight.
The OC (optical carrier...fiber optic based broadband network )hierarchy goes as follows, starting with a T3/DS3 electrical carrier and then on to an OC-1:
DS3 (Electrical) = 44.736mbits/sec = 28 T1s/DS1s
STS1 (Electrical) = (1) DS3 @ 44.736mbits/sec with SONET (Synchronous Optical NET) overhead = 51.840mbits/sec
OC-1 (Optical) = (1) STS1 on Optical facilities
OC-3 = (3) OC-1s = 155.52mbits/sec
OC-9 = (9) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 466.56mbits/sec
OC-12 = (12) OC-1s or (4) OC-3s = 622.08mbits/sec
OC-18 = (18) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 933.12mbits/sec
OC-24 = (24) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 1.244gbits/sec
OC-36 = (36) OC-1s (not commonly used) = 1.866gbits/sec
OC-48 = (48) OC-1s or (4) OC-12s or (16) OC-3s = 2.488gbits/sec
OC-192= (192) OC-1s or (4) OC-48s or (16) OC-12s or (64) OC-3s = 9.953gbits/sec
The reason for the stair-stepping of the OC Hierarchy is due to the fact that the next available level of multiplexing ('muxing") of lower-level circuits is usually 4: (4) OC-3s = (1) OC-12, and (4) OC-48s = (1) OC-192.
This muxing scheme is usually dictated by the equipment manufacturers and is pretty much an adopted standard in the Telecom industry - hence the lack of the lesser-common bandwidth aggregations like OC-9, OC-18, etc. The only exception is the OC-3, which was needed to allow the upper-level hierarchy to work.
Hope this tidbit of info helps the network design decisions for your business now....and in the future!
Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications....including DS3-Bandwidth.com and Business-VoIP-Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, insights, and ramblings for the masses.
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Selecting Auspicious Property
The Chinese believe that our lives are influenced by the quality of chi that pervades our living spaces. This in turn affects how we vibrate in consonance with the rhythms of our environment. Wind and water or the science of feng shui focuses our awareness onto the invisible energy that emanates from structures, mountains, and rivers, and the landscapes that make up the earth.
The Chinese call this energy, chi, the dragon's cosmic breath. Understanding its intrinsic nature, we learn to differentiate between expanding chi and killing chi, between alive yang chi and stagnant dead yin chi. This life force in the environment has the power to nurture us, or to destroy us. When we succeed in blending harmoniously with the auspicious benign chi of the environment, we refine an approach to living that enhances our quality of life. This is the practice of feng shui - tapping into the good chi, the luck of the earth.
But earth luck makes up only one third of our store of luck. There is also heaven luck and mankind luck. We have no control over our heaven luck - the situation we are born into. But we do have control over our earth luck and our mankind luck. Awareness of tien ti ren thus implies weaving a positive pattern of attitudes that engage the best of our outer and inner selves. Learning to use correct knowledge, we activate the essence of the outer chi of our physical spaces, and the inner chi that resides within us. In the process we live in harmony with our environment thereby engaging earth luck, and we tap into our own spirituality and our own source of luck. - mankind luck. When we practice feng shui within this perspective, it has great potency.
THE BENEFITS OF FENG SHUI
We can use feng shui in many ways and from different perspectives. It can be used to evaluate the external environment that surround our homes and offices and it can be used to plan our interior spaces. Feng shui gives us valuable expertise that can be put to amazingly good use, knowledge that enables us to choose, design and enhance the spaces where we live and work.
Feng shui lays down practical guidelines that enable you to select good property - property whose chi is not afflicted by hostile hills, whose luck is not blocked by harmful structures and whose yang energy is vibrant and strong. There are also feng shui formulas that enable you to custom design your luck. Depending on what sort of life aspirations you have, feng shui expertise involves fine-tuning of the chi around the home so that harmony and balance are adjusted to satisfy different aspirations of mankind.
From a feng shui perspective we can discern many kinds of property - some possess intrinsic good fortune and benefits everyone who live within - the chi is all pervasive and abundant. Thus there are certain areas and neighborhoods that tend to have better feng shui than other neighborhoods. For instance it is obvious that the whole Bangsar/Pantai/Damansara area is blessed with loads of benevolent chi bringing success to the people who live there and the businesses that operate there. Kuala Lumpur itself enjoys good feng shui although in recent years excessive flooding has resulted from the city's fast pace of growth. But the Petronas twin towers has successfully dotted the eyes of the Malaysian green dragon, the dragon that resides in our main mountain range and which brings us enormous good fortune.
So at the big picture level we can use the big tai chi of countries, cities and districts to investigate their overall feng shui. Some properties bring enormous wealth luck to everyone who resides within and these are usually properties that successfully tap into the use of water and water flows within the nearby environment. Water feng shui alone can fill a book - there are so many different ways to look at water and to use it to harness money luck. Suffice to say that all the big cities of the world - those that have grown and continue to grow are cities that have been built around a meandering river. New York, London, Chicago, Shanghai, Sydney, Paris - are just a few examples of clusters of wealth brought by big natural rivers.
So waterways and bodies of water always suggest wealth and growth. This is because water produces wood which signifies growth chi.
At the smaller tai chi level we can practice feng shui in our individual abodes. There are special formulas that reveal the secrets of the ancients. These formulas reveal how to place water at precisely the right spot, and in precisely the exact way. They spell out how water should flow, how it should enter and how it should exit from the property. Feng shui is especially useful to those who own large tracts of hilly land - such people have the capability to design homes or developments that can potentially have quite exceptional feng shui.
Not everyone however is in that happy position. The majority of people today have to rely on property developers who have auspicious pieces of land to start with - land that is placed amidst the kind of meandering terrain, backed by hills and fed by waterways - where dragons love to build their lair. But even when the development has such good auspicious land still the houses that are built on such land should be oriented to make the best use of the terrain so that all the houses, or at least the majority of houses can successfully tap the dragon's cosmic chi.
And here is where knowledge of feng shui comes in useful. When you know what to look for it is easy enough to gauge the general characteristics of any major development. And where the whole development has been laid out in a site plan you will also know what to look out for. Those purchasing apartments will also know exactly how to select both the apartment block as well as the apartment unit.
How does one go about selecting property?
First look at the terrain and what surrounds your property. Look at the way roads are laid out. Are any of the surrounding roads pointing directly at any part of your house? Are there many feeder roads in the development or new township the property is located in? As a general rule it is important that there is nothing straight, nothing sharp and nothing pointed aimed at any property you are thinking of buying.
Next look for nearby natural water features and check the orientation of different units to the water. As a general rule water in front is always better than water behind.
Thirdly look at the design features of houses facades and elevations. When roof lines appear threatening try to visualize it in the house opposite yours hitting directly at you !
Next look at the locations of the localized infrastructure. Facing a padang, a field is excellent feng shui as this makes up the bright hall benign chi can settle and gather momentum before entering your home. Facing a river that flows past the home even at some distance is excellent feng shui. when this is also investigated according to compass directions you can really investigate how good the river feature is.
Fifthly always check the compass directions and then work out if the orientations of any property you are contemplating on buying will be suitable for you. This requires knowledge of Eight mansions feng shui and although this is an exceptionally easy formula to use, it is nevertheless extremely potent and very powerful.
The above are merely generalized guidelines to take note of. They are simple guidelines but if you can investigate at least these few matters you will not go far wrong. There are many things you can do to activate the feng shui luck of your home after you buy it. But before you commit to buy it really is necessary to get certain things right. Not all feng shui afflictions can be cured.
The bad feng shui of the environment is the hardest to cure - for example if the property you are thinking of buying, or renting is right next door to a cemetery, or to a jail, or an execution ground, lingering yin energy will simply continue to send negative vibrations your way. This kind of bad feng shui is quite hard to overcome. So my advice is to get it right form the very beginning.
As to whether it is a good idea to hire a feng shui Master this depends on several factors. Unless you are prepared to spend quite a fair sum of money this is not a good option. Let me explain., it is difficult to find an expert who really knows his art, and who is prepared to invest the time and effort in giving you really good feng shui advice unless of course you keep him on some kind of retainer for a few months. This is because no matter what you are advised to do to "fix" your feng shui there will always arise the inevitable questions. Do not forget that the feng shui man who does it for a living probably has many clients - and how much effort he can afford to give you depends on how busy he is. When he rushed through any job a feng shui consultant can and often does make mistakes.
So it is far better for you to learn feng shui yourself. This is what I did more than twenty years ago. I leant feng shui in order to ensure that I would always have reasonably good feng shui. and I have never regretted doing so although it was initially an uphill battle. Once leant however the skill has stayed with me forever. Feng shui knowledge makes my life very pleasant indeed. It has helped me all through my corporate and business careers and I have discovered that it really is not difficult to learn up on all the knowledge of feng shui.
Lillian Too is the world's number ONE selling writer on Feng Shui. She has authored over 80 best selling books on the subject, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her books sell in the millions of copies around the world, in the process popularising feng shui worldwide.
Lillian Too is the founder and chairman of WOFS.com, a feng shui merchandising and franchise company, and the Lillian Too Certified Consultants Institute, which runs correspondence courses and certification programs in feng shui.
To buy her books, please visit FSMegamall.com.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Selecting Auspicious Property
The Chinese believe that our lives are influenced by the quality of chi that pervades our living spaces. This in turn affects how we vibrate in consonance with the rhythms of our environment. Wind and water or the science of feng shui focuses our awareness onto the invisible energy that emanates from structures, mountains, and rivers, and the landscapes that make up the earth.
The Chinese call this energy, chi, the dragon's cosmic breath. Understanding its intrinsic nature, we learn to differentiate between expanding chi and killing chi, between alive yang chi and stagnant dead yin chi. This life force in the environment has the power to nurture us, or to destroy us. When we succeed in blending harmoniously with the auspicious benign chi of the environment, we refine an approach to living that enhances our quality of life. This is the practice of feng shui - tapping into the good chi, the luck of the earth.
But earth luck makes up only one third of our store of luck. There is also heaven luck and mankind luck. We have no control over our heaven luck - the situation we are born into. But we do have control over our earth luck and our mankind luck. Awareness of tien ti ren thus implies weaving a positive pattern of attitudes that engage the best of our outer and inner selves. Learning to use correct knowledge, we activate the essence of the outer chi of our physical spaces, and the inner chi that resides within us. In the process we live in harmony with our environment thereby engaging earth luck, and we tap into our own spirituality and our own source of luck. - mankind luck. When we practice feng shui within this perspective, it has great potency.
THE BENEFITS OF FENG SHUI
We can use feng shui in many ways and from different perspectives. It can be used to evaluate the external environment that surround our homes and offices and it can be used to plan our interior spaces. Feng shui gives us valuable expertise that can be put to amazingly good use, knowledge that enables us to choose, design and enhance the spaces where we live and work.
Feng shui lays down practical guidelines that enable you to select good property - property whose chi is not afflicted by hostile hills, whose luck is not blocked by harmful structures and whose yang energy is vibrant and strong. There are also feng shui formulas that enable you to custom design your luck. Depending on what sort of life aspirations you have, feng shui expertise involves fine-tuning of the chi around the home so that harmony and balance are adjusted to satisfy different aspirations of mankind.
From a feng shui perspective we can discern many kinds of property - some possess intrinsic good fortune and benefits everyone who live within - the chi is all pervasive and abundant. Thus there are certain areas and neighborhoods that tend to have better feng shui than other neighborhoods. For instance it is obvious that the whole Bangsar/Pantai/Damansara area is blessed with loads of benevolent chi bringing success to the people who live there and the businesses that operate there. Kuala Lumpur itself enjoys good feng shui although in recent years excessive flooding has resulted from the city's fast pace of growth. But the Petronas twin towers has successfully dotted the eyes of the Malaysian green dragon, the dragon that resides in our main mountain range and which brings us enormous good fortune.
So at the big picture level we can use the big tai chi of countries, cities and districts to investigate their overall feng shui. Some properties bring enormous wealth luck to everyone who resides within and these are usually properties that successfully tap into the use of water and water flows within the nearby environment. Water feng shui alone can fill a book - there are so many different ways to look at water and to use it to harness money luck. Suffice to say that all the big cities of the world - those that have grown and continue to grow are cities that have been built around a meandering river. New York, London, Chicago, Shanghai, Sydney, Paris - are just a few examples of clusters of wealth brought by big natural rivers.
So waterways and bodies of water always suggest wealth and growth. This is because water produces wood which signifies growth chi.
At the smaller tai chi level we can practice feng shui in our individual abodes. There are special formulas that reveal the secrets of the ancients. These formulas reveal how to place water at precisely the right spot, and in precisely the exact way. They spell out how water should flow, how it should enter and how it should exit from the property. Feng shui is especially useful to those who own large tracts of hilly land - such people have the capability to design homes or developments that can potentially have quite exceptional feng shui.
Not everyone however is in that happy position. The majority of people today have to rely on property developers who have auspicious pieces of land to start with - land that is placed amidst the kind of meandering terrain, backed by hills and fed by waterways - where dragons love to build their lair. But even when the development has such good auspicious land still the houses that are built on such land should be oriented to make the best use of the terrain so that all the houses, or at least the majority of houses can successfully tap the dragon's cosmic chi.
And here is where knowledge of feng shui comes in useful. When you know what to look for it is easy enough to gauge the general characteristics of any major development. And where the whole development has been laid out in a site plan you will also know what to look out for. Those purchasing apartments will also know exactly how to select both the apartment block as well as the apartment unit.
How does one go about selecting property?
First look at the terrain and what surrounds your property. Look at the way roads are laid out. Are any of the surrounding roads pointing directly at any part of your house? Are there many feeder roads in the development or new township the property is located in? As a general rule it is important that there is nothing straight, nothing sharp and nothing pointed aimed at any property you are thinking of buying.
Next look for nearby natural water features and check the orientation of different units to the water. As a general rule water in front is always better than water behind.
Thirdly look at the design features of houses facades and elevations. When roof lines appear threatening try to visualize it in the house opposite yours hitting directly at you !
Next look at the locations of the localized infrastructure. Facing a padang, a field is excellent feng shui as this makes up the bright hall benign chi can settle and gather momentum before entering your home. Facing a river that flows past the home even at some distance is excellent feng shui. when this is also investigated according to compass directions you can really investigate how good the river feature is.
Fifthly always check the compass directions and then work out if the orientations of any property you are contemplating on buying will be suitable for you. This requires knowledge of Eight mansions feng shui and although this is an exceptionally easy formula to use, it is nevertheless extremely potent and very powerful.
The above are merely generalized guidelines to take note of. They are simple guidelines but if you can investigate at least these few matters you will not go far wrong. There are many things you can do to activate the feng shui luck of your home after you buy it. But before you commit to buy it really is necessary to get certain things right. Not all feng shui afflictions can be cured.
The bad feng shui of the environment is the hardest to cure - for example if the property you are thinking of buying, or renting is right next door to a cemetery, or to a jail, or an execution ground, lingering yin energy will simply continue to send negative vibrations your way. This kind of bad feng shui is quite hard to overcome. So my advice is to get it right form the very beginning.
As to whether it is a good idea to hire a feng shui Master this depends on several factors. Unless you are prepared to spend quite a fair sum of money this is not a good option. Let me explain., it is difficult to find an expert who really knows his art, and who is prepared to invest the time and effort in giving you really good feng shui advice unless of course you keep him on some kind of retainer for a few months. This is because no matter what you are advised to do to "fix" your feng shui there will always arise the inevitable questions. Do not forget that the feng shui man who does it for a living probably has many clients - and how much effort he can afford to give you depends on how busy he is. When he rushed through any job a feng shui consultant can and often does make mistakes.
So it is far better for you to learn feng shui yourself. This is what I did more than twenty years ago. I leant feng shui in order to ensure that I would always have reasonably good feng shui. and I have never regretted doing so although it was initially an uphill battle. Once leant however the skill has stayed with me forever. Feng shui knowledge makes my life very pleasant indeed. It has helped me all through my corporate and business careers and I have discovered that it really is not difficult to learn up on all the knowledge of feng shui.
Lillian Too is the world's number ONE selling writer on Feng Shui. She has authored over 80 best selling books on the subject, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her books sell in the millions of copies around the world, in the process popularising feng shui worldwide.
Lillian Too is the founder and chairman of WOFS.com, a feng shui merchandising and franchise company, and the Lillian Too Certified Consultants Institute, which runs correspondence courses and certification programs in feng shui.
To buy her books, please visit FSMegamall.com.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
5 Ways To Keep People From Stealing Your Broadband
Let's get one thing straight up front: at some time or another, we have all used someone else's wireless connection to check our email, get directions, or find something entertaining during a less than exciting vacation.
With that being said, there are others who abuse the privilege: The college student next door who decides to use your connection to download hi-def porn. The tweenager who has to have that bootleg Miley Cyrus album. A novice hacker who decides it would be fun to use your gateway for some "exploration".
In this article, I will give you a few steps that will help you reclaim your bandwidth, make your network more secure, and give freeloaders the boot.
1. Change the default username and password on your router.
Many security problems start with the fact that most people don't know how to log into their router to start with.
First, you must open up your browser, and type the IP 192.168.0.1 (or 192.168.1.1 for linksys routers).
It will bring up the login screen automatically. All manufacturers have a default password. For example, dlink's default username is "admin" and the password is left blank.
Check your user manual or the underside of your router for your manufacturer's defaults.
Go the administrative or settings tab once you have logged in, and change it to whatever you would like. Change the username to something unrelated to your first or last name. Try to add a password that has at least one number in it.
Don't forget to change the "user" username and password as well. While you cannot change anything while logged in as "user", this can let experienced freeloaders see your settings, and find a backdoor more easily.
2. Change your SSID.
What is an SSID? In layman's terms, it is your router name. The router will usually come defaulted to the name of the manufacturer, and when the SSID is "Belkin54G", it screams "free internet access". Change it to something boring, and unexciting. This is not time to play "Pimp Your SSID". An unusual or exciting name will automatically attract freeloaders. You can usually find this in the "settings" tab as well.
3. Create a WPA Key
This is simply an 8-63 character password that is stored on your router. In order for anyone to access your connection, they must first type in the correct password. To set up your WPA key, log in to your router. Once there, select the "wireless" tab. Then, enable encryption.
If there are two types of WPA, select "WPA-PSK". This is the one intended for home use. Enter the password. Restart the router.
The next time you (or anyone else) tries to access the router, you will be asked for the key. Your computer will save the key for the next time you access the network, and things should go smoothly from there. You are now moderately secure.
4. Turn down the juice.
Your router is automatically configured for the maximum transmission range. This is great if you live in an 1800sq. foot house on an acre of land. If you live in an apartment or townhome, however, most of your neighbors will get strong signal as well. To prevent this, log into your router. Go to the "settings", or "system" tab, and turn down the signal (or transmission) strength to 50 or 75%. This should give you more than enough signal to get access anywhere in your apartment, and keep the guy down the hall from siphoning your bandwidth
5.Enable MAC based filtering.
By combining this step 3, you can create a highly secure home network. This step is for those who don't mind reading the manual, and playing around with the settings a little.
Every wireless card, network card, and modem has what is known as a MAC address. No device has the same MAC address. This is quite possibly the biggest step you can take towards making your network secure.
This is a pretty technical step, so I will refer you to your user's manual for specifics. I will tell you in broad terms what you will have to do.
Make sure that all the computers that you want on your network are on, and connected to your router.
Log in to the router.
Under the "Security" tab, you find a section that will usually be called "Network Filters" or just "Filters".
Select "Filter by MAC Address".
One by one, add the MAC addresses of your wireless(and wired) devices to the table. Most routers will allow you to add up to 20 addresses.
If you can't find your MAC address, click here for a tutorial.
Then select "Allow Access for these PC's".
Save your settings, and let the router reboot.
Your PC's will be able to access the internet as usual, everyone else will be shut out.
This should eliminate casual and intermediate users of the internet from even being allowed access to router login.
If you make a mistake, and lock yourself out, just do a hard reset of your router, and it will go back to the factory defaults.
These are generic instructions, but they hold true for most consumer level routers currently on the market. For more in-depth instruction, always consult the user's manual that came with your router.
Hopefully, this will ease some of your bandwidth woes, and allow you to get the best out of the internet access you are paying for. So kick those freeloaders to the curb, and then make sure they can't get signal.
I'm gonna go download that Miley Cyrus bootleg.
Kurt Hartman has a degree in Network Administration, and many neighbors who would like some of his sweet...sweet wireless access. He's been involved with "The Internets" since before Al Gore invented them.
Currently, he designs modest, yet functional websites.
Recently, he helped with an update of a site that sells otr tires.
Almost forgot...he likes cake.
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