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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15117 Location: Paradox Realm |
Source code available. Could it be used in Puppy from command line with a GUI? http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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01micko
 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7331 Location: qld |
Of course if you really want to bloat your savefile... Deps:
Anyway, what's not fast enough about the Puppy internet experience? Cheers _________________ Woof Mailing List | keep the faith  |  |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15117 Location: Paradox Realm |
Some are on slower connections - I am quite happy with my broadband 
Just an idea. . .
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harii4
 Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 444 Location: La Porte City, IA , U.S.A. |
i have bad wifi (virgin mobile prepay) - i live in the sticks. its great in the city but it feels like it takes 6 clicks to get on wifi with my 3.01 fat-free. installed pwireless seems to help. |
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technosaurus
 Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4035 |
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Michalis
Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 237 Location: Greece |
Faster DNS servers won't help those people at all. Slow DNS servers are noticed only in broadband access where retrieving the page is very fast and thous slow DNS servers can have an impact. In the case of slow connection like dial up slow wireless speed or 2G mobile network the best solution is to use opera with opera turbo on. Works like as a proxy server and sends the page compressed. This way the page is reduced in size and so faster. It really makes big difference when I use internet mobile
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Aitch
 Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK |
harii4 Are you getting your signal from your own router?...or piggybacking from outside? If so, try a faster/more powerful wifi adapter/aerial, as signal strength is crucial to good performance - even curved tinfoil around the aerial will give excellent signal improvements [use one on your router too, if you have one] http://technetz.com/index.php/2008/05/03/how-to-make-wifi-signal-booster-diy/ Also try using OpenDNS, as Virgin's DNS servers are unreliable, I find, even on good city broadband Aitch
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harii4
Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 444 Location: La Porte City, IA , U.S.A. |
its an VirginMobile Broadband2Go MiFi 2200 Device. So, tinfoil will not help i'm on the edge of VirginMobile cover area. moved it to an window on the cover side and get 2-3 bars on a good day. but my signal strength in the house to MiFi 2200 is very good. Only had it 3 weeks and i'm very happy with it. Used the tinfoil trick for my buddy - he almost fell out of his chair when it worked. duck tape and tinfoil - you can fix almost anything. @Aitch - thanks for the tips |
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 2222 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere... |
In the US, the MiFi 2200 is sold by Verizon and their "it's the network" is cr*p on a good day. As in, there are days when slower-than-a-drugged-tortoise 56k dialup is faster (and more useful). So how do I do this fabled tin foil trick? I've never heard of it, but I'll do just about anything to get a better signal as long as I don't have to dance naked on a rooftop 
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rjbrewer
 Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas |
There's many tinfoil tricks; this one might appeal to you.
Variations: http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 2222 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere... |
 
_________________ Looking for some oddball hardware - an EZGo MiniPC. See here. Upup Raring on Atom/Poulsbo is my next system. Puppy rocks like a giant boulder! |
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harii4
Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 444 Location: La Porte City, IA , U.S.A. |
wow - the mother-load of signal hacks
thanks - rjbrewer
I think i'll try "# 41" this weekend. |
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rjbrewer
Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas |
A tip: Signals are polarized when transmitted; so try with the receiving device in both horizontal or vertical alignment to see which works best. I use the "rutilt" wireless from 4.xx puppys' for real time signal strength testing of wifi. Have fun. _________________ Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram. Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram. Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram. Full installs |
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_Mark_
Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 97 |
Thanks for posting this Lobster I have for a while wondered if I have a problem with my ISP supplied and also OpenDNS DNS servers, so thought I would give this a try. If you extract the archive and from the command line run the namebench.py with a ./namebench.py. there are a few options you can add but just as is should be fine for most uses. You will of course have to have Python installed, if you are running the devx.sfs for your flavour of puppy all will be good, to run the GUI you need the python-tk package installed which isn't (haven't looked into that yet) Running from command line is fine takes about 5 mins, echos a lot of stuff on the screen, don't worry too much about the output as when finished you should have a nice .html and a more detailed .csv saved in the /tmp directory. Load the html into your fave browser to look at the report, mine reported if I used there recommended primary server I should see a 21% speed increase (we shall see) So I have setup there recommendations on my router and browsing does seem a bit snappier. Call me a cynic but as this has been written by Google and both times I have run this it has recommended Google Public DNS as my primary server you can make of that what you will I will see how it goes anyway |
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Michalis
Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 237 Location: Greece |
_Mark_ Just a question, you have dial-up or broadband access? |
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