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  1. Portal 2

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    Only played an hour so far but it's great as expected. I hope it gets much harder later on as I've found the puzzles to be a breeze, although it seems to be re-introducing the old mechanics as well as the new ones at this point.

    I should really do the co op but finding it very hard to drag myself away from TF2.

  10. The Internet in my house is awful

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    The consumers router will handle the local address translation so the internet will only ever see the public (ISP assigned) IP address. They'll know which connection downloaded it but not the private IP address of the machine.

    Since most hosts use DHCP in a typical home set up even the private IP address tells you squat, it could all be different tomorrow.

    In those circumstances, yes you are correct. However, if the police were keen on catching someone downloading/distributing CP, consider the following scenario:

    A user connects to an unencrypted network and downloads CP. Eventually, authorities become aware of this activity and identify the IP provided by the ISP to trace the connection. Once enough evidence of this activity has been gathered, the ISP customer is arrested and any computing devices capable of downloading CP is siezed. Computer forensics eventually determine that the customer is innocent and the charges dropped.

    However, they still have evidence that CP was downloaded using that particular connection. Now if they wanted to investigate further, they would begin to monitor the activity on the customer's router/ISP assigned IP address, either by maintaining a list of the MAC addresses for all devices the customer is using and identifying any connections established by devices which aren't on this list, or by turning off DHCP and assigning static local IPs for the customer's devices and identifying any external connections which were being assigned a new static IP not on the customer's list.

    Now if the user downloading CP was smart (which they aren't of course), they wouldn't connect to the unencrypted network frequently, however they aren't going to turn down a free internet connection. At this point, authorities can identify the user's IP on the local network, the MAC address and latency of the connection to determine the user's distance from the router in order to work out a physical location (the same building for instance) and issue a warrant to search the machine of the suspect.

  11. The Internet in my house is awful

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    Another thing you may want to check on your router is your MTU configuration, which is basically the largest 'packet' of data you can send. The maximum value is usually 1500 but this should be set to auto. This will mainly affect upload speeds, but can have a noticable impact on loading web pages because if it is set to too low a value, you will need to send more 'packets' to request the web page (making it slower to load), and if it is too high a value, there's a higher overhead and therefore more prone to errors.

    If you set it to auto, your ISP should handle this for you.

    I notice your ping times are horrendously bad which to me suggests the wiring at the phone socket in your house or the microfilter itself has failed (rare but it can happen).

    The first (and easiest) thing to do is replace the microfilter if you can. You usually get two in the box you got the broadband router in' date=' if not a trip to B&Q\Maplin might be in order. I very much doubt it will be this and its more likely you would lose your connection every time the phone home rang instead but it's worth ruling out.

    The second thing I'd do is check the phone wiring in your house to confirm if it is the socket, here's a step by step guide:

    DSL ZoneUK - Improve your speed - Extension wiring and Disconnection help

    It's really easy to check. Basically you only want wires in sockets 2 and 5, you can remove all others.[/quote']

    Have you tried this yourself? Did it improve your speeds?

  16. The Internet in my house is awful

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    Mines has always been shit. I'm on the Great Western exchange and live quite a bit away from it also.

    I'm supposed to be getting up to 3Mbps download with Demon's line tester they provided before they rolled out ADSL2+, however it seems the exchange only provides up to 2 Mbps connections and is currently not scheduled for a fibre optic upgrade anytime soon.

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