TENET + IE

[tco21]

Add one part TENET, one part Internet exporer, shake it a bit and you get me wanting to blow my fscking head off.

Slow is not even the word for it. Sigh. Tuks' internet has always been useless.

 

[AndrewAlston]

Hi There

Looking at the UP connection, this is largely because the circuit is saturated. Keep in mind that the amount of bandwidth purchased is up to a University themselves and not a reflection on the TENET network itself.

The good news is that this connection is getting a substantial upgrade on Wednesday night, so hopefully things improve!

Andrew

 

[fragtion]

Why not make the best of what you have already (Why are you using IE?)?
Download Firefox/Chrome, and configure a nice cache size in the browser's options, so that your browser doesn't have to re-download the same content repeatedly, slowing the connection down.
Even better, set up a little linux server with a squid cache to do all of that transparently for you...
P.S. What does this have to do with ADSL? Post in the right forum category please

 

[kilos]

Reply straight from the horses mouth ?
Thanks for the updates Andrew, that should make tco21 a happy camper.

As fragtion mention Chrome is the fastest web browser if you read the Broadband News you would see it

 

[tco21]

Hi There

Looking at the UP connection, this is largely because the circuit is saturated. Keep in mind that the amount of bandwidth purchased is up to a University themselves and not a reflection on the TENET network itself.

The good news is that this connection is getting a substantial upgrade on Wednesday night, so hopefully things improve!

Andrew

This was really unexpected. Muchos Kudos for the reply!

Chrome is the fastest web browser if you read the Broadband News you would see it[/URL]

FF doesn't connect to the internet and I'm not going to be wasting any of my precious cap on downloading Chrome. That and I'm not a fan of Chrome.

 

[Random717]

Are you configuring the proxy settings in Firefox after installing it?

 

[fragtion]

Are you configuring the proxy settings in Firefox after installing it?

+1
IE has that "Automatically configure my proxy settings" checkbox, which does that for you. At most TENET-powered institutions, HTTP traffic is disallowed without first going through their proxy, which must be configured with your student ID and password. If IE can work, no reason why Firefox can't - just requires some configuration

 

[tco21]

+1
IE has that "Automatically configure my proxy settings" checkbox, which does that for you. At most TENET-powered institutions, HTTP traffic is disallowed without first going through their proxy, which must be configured with your student ID and password. If IE can work, no reason why Firefox can't - just requires some configuration

Yeah but doing this every single time you long on is tedious. I don't think it's as simple as student no. + password though.

EDIT: auto proxy configured, works. Ah... thanks. Now the IE problem is out the way, will report network speed on Thursday.

 

[RogueRunner]

Speeds are good. Avg about 2.5MB/s during the day. I CANNOT wait for Sanren!!

 

[tco21]

I have to conclude that speeds are up since yesterday.