Reviewing the Cricket Um185 Broadband Modem
Comments OffSo I got the Modem and wanted to test out the speed being stationary, So I go to my usual site Speedtest.net look at the speed, check below for speed.
As you can see this went fairly well. It does depend on your Cricket Coverage area. So you want to hear all about it.
First thing if you are upgrading from the UM100 Broadband Card, You’ll want to uninstall the Quicklink Software. To do that you can uninstall it by going to:
Computer > C: Drive > Program Files > Cricket > Quicklink > UNWISE.EXE
(This will uninstall the Quicklink software, I’d suggest after you uninstall it you reboot.)
Install the UM185 Software and Drivers:
As you can see the Cricket Um185 Broadband Modem, Has a little more installation process and requires a little more time. It however has all the software necessary to run smoothly with Vista.
Speedtest For Cricket Um185 Modem:
Signs of a Computer Infection!
Comments OffSo I was thinking this morning what I missed and I totally missed on how you might be able to tell if you have a computer virus. It does me no good to talk about a virus if you don’t know you’re infected. I was thinking of the times I had a client who had trouble but wasn’t what I thought.
So How do you know?
Some people would say it depends on factors but here are what I call clues that make me suspect a virus:
- Slow or Sluggish computers – Here is what I know if the computer is really slowing down and have a dual core or quad core. If you are running a system and sees a lot of hard drive activity even when the computer is idle then it might be a virus or it could be a program doing what it is supposed to be doing. So this is somewhat of an indication but not always.
- Slow internet connection on the computer or on the network — Due to the fact that most people have a router that is connected to all the computers and if you internet connection on all your systems are slower than normal then you could have a virus. I use Speed Test website to help determine this.
Cricket Wireless Broadband Card — How to get better speed!
After buying the card last month, I did a quick review about the broadband card. I wanted to talk about the speed problems that I had when I first used the modem. Here is how to possibly getting better speeds when you use your card. First off, you will need to disconnect from the internet and go to your quicklink mobile application:
You will click on “Tools” and then hit ‘Activation’. If you have it fail on your the first time you should reboot your system then try to do the activation after reboot that should fix the activation problem.
As you can see after I did the activation of the modem, my speed went way up from the last review. I thought I should talk about how you could possibly fix this. I called tech support over this to get a better speed.
Cricket USB UM100 Broadband Wireless Modem Review.
The UM100c is No Longer Available, Please check out the Cricket A600 Modem Review Or the UM185 Broadband modem. The UM185 modem might be a replacement to the UM100.
After a full week of playing around with this USB wireless, I wanted to talk about it. So let’s break it down into pieces.
- (USB Broadband A600 Modem card for Free after Instant online rebates and Mail in rebate Free shipping & first month free! Shop today.)
- Installation – The installation of the USB was not to difficult. I did have to do some more steps than this: Install the Software, then hooked up the USB device to the USB port.
- Manual Activated the Broadband – For some reason in my area they had several people have problems with the broadband activation. So I had to activate it manually!!
After that all went well, I was on the internet just a cruising along. I did however wonder why I was getting such a slow response speed. When I went traveling I thought I would share some of my local results with you to better show you my speed. All these test were done at
Bandwidth Tools For Monitoring your bandwidth
Comments OffSo I’ve done some looking around for bandwidth programs. So here’s what I found so far. The programs I’ve got listed are not test and are therefore your responsible for any and all use of the programs.
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FreeMeter Bandwidth Monitor For Windows – Monitor network bandwidth (C#.NET 2k/XP+). Desktop and Systray graph. Configurable connection speed, update interval, color, transparency. Monitor any or all network interfaces. Ping/Trace/UPnP utilities. Email notifier (POP/IMAP). Requires .NET 2.0.
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Pipelog – Windows Bandwidth Meter — Pipelog is a Windows bandwidth meter that gives live statistics of accumulated bandwidth usage. It is written in C# and runs on the .NET Framework.
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Windows Service Monitor – Monitor and automatically restart Windows Services with this small Win32 command line utility. Windows Service Monitor (WinSMon) can monitor several services, restart services that stop/fail and limit the number of restart times.
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iptotal — iptotal is an IP traffic monitor. It listens to a network interface in non-promiscuous mode, and measures IP bandwidth usage. After the specified number of seconds, the average throughput is printed at total, input and output usage.
Hulu United States Only — FAQ
In a Comment on there Hulu Blog,
August 16th, 2008 at 08:52 AM Umm, when exactly did Hulu decide to shut its doors to everyone outside of America? The site’s title is “Watch your Favorites. Anytime. For Free”. I’m sorry Hulu, this is a complete lie, as anyone viewing your site outside of the US is banned from viewing your videos. All the time. So that you know, I intend on writing a letter to Joss Whedon asking that he pull his Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog video from your network and redistribute it to a video site that isn’t run by people who embrace the philosophy “Defective By Design”. That way, the thousands of other people wanting to see this video, like me, don’t have to resort to downloading the thing via the piratebay.
Well, This is something I wanted to discuss for everyone who reads my blog why Hulu isn’t allowing anyone outside of America to see the videos. It’s all have to do with there contracts they have with certain providers.
Cleaning out the Prefetch Directory!
Comments OffFrom time to time you will need to clean out the Prefetch directory in Vista and XP. Here is how you do it in Vista. You first would need to boot into safe mode in Vista then you will log into Vista and go to:
Having been using XP and Vista for the past few years, I’ve found that deleting all of the files in prefetch directory and letting them rebuild actually speeds up the system. I got a feeling it has something to do with file corruptions. After you go into the Prefetch directory and delete all the files. You would then go into your Readyboost Directory if you are using Readyboost then there will be a Readyboost directory inside the Prefetch directory. Deleting all the files in the Readyboost directory also will greatly improve performance of your system. Don’t delete the Prefetch Directory or the Readyboost Directory, Vista won’t let you delete the Prefetch but will with Readyboost. Deleting the Readyboost directory will prevent Vista from using Readyboost and then you would have to restart the process of using Readyboost.
Five Ways to Increase Email Productivity!
Comments OffAs time goes by there are always going to be problems with having Email and being productive. You can have so much stuff going on in one day it’s not even possible to really have time to thoroughly check your email. So here are some great steps to get some of your emails done with!!
- Empty your InBox – If you don’t have control over your inbox maybe it is time to make sure it’s empty or at least all read!! It’s true most of the time I don’t read all my emails, I pick and choose what I want to read. After that, I decide to make all post marked at read!! I call it the Panic button!!
- Organize your Inbox – Having been signed up for several different email groups. I’ve got it all organized. I’ve got a folder setup and used for each group. I then create a mail filter for each group and have it put it there, unless it’s spam then I have it go into the spam folder!! (also see Email Filtering)
