And Keep More For Yourself.
Tip of the day: If you are in a house with multiple computers, and you want to restrict "the amount of Internet" those other machines use, you can use settings (aka "options") in your router and give yourself #1 priority.
Today's topic comes 
from a question from a (younger) fella who lives with roommates, and they all "share" his connection.
Which is fine with him except for when their online activity slows down his surfing or online gaming.
So he wanted to know how to make sure he got "first dibs". (Though I confess, he called it "more bandwidth".)
You can think of today's tip as a "tweak for better Internet speed", if you'd like, though you'd be -- technically-- incorrect.
1) Open your browser and access the router's Control Panel.
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2) Find the Advanced Settings tab for "QoS".
(On a Linksys, that is under "Applications and Gaming")
3) Give your PC's MAC Address a rating of "Highest"
(To get the MAC, open a command prompt and enter "ipconfig /all".)
* You might want to set other machines to "low".
4) Save and exit.
That's it, your done. Now your data packets will go first, and any other Internet user will have to wait for your request to finish.
[note: there are some other priority tweaks you can make here too. Click on the image to see large version, and note my arrows.]
Today's free download: EncryptOnClick is a very simple to use program that lets you securely encrypt and decrypt files.
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