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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 14 September 2010, 20:38:00
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I need an easy way to restrict Firefox to one tab and one window.
Got problems with too much web traffic and it is this or delete my daughters faceache account.
Any ideas?
I turned the PC off on her earlier as she caused a connection failure with online gaming >:( >:(
Thanks for any ideas
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turn off tabbed browsing in tools, options
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depending on the router you can also restrict bandwidth to her pc as well
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&q=restrict+bandwidth+on+router&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB359GB360&ie=UTF-8&aq=0&oq=restrict+bandwidth+on+r
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depending on the router you can also restrict bandwidth to her pc as well
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&q=restrict+bandwidth+on+router&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB359GB360&ie=UTF-8&aq=0&oq=restrict+bandwidth+on+r
Home hub doesn't allow that - nor does it allow QOS on the PS3 :( :'(
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hmm dump the home hub and get a decent router ;D :D
failing that switch the wireless off or using parental controls limit the time access if on windows 7 :D
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Can't you set it to block a list of sites using the Windows Host files?
http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/block-websites-using-hosts-file/
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Can't you set it to block a list of sites using the Windows Host files?
http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/block-websites-using-hosts-file/
Should be able to do that on the router too.
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limiting from the router is a better approach..
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Get a decent console!!
A bit of browsing will not make much difference to gaming - pings may increase, but pings mean precisely sod all with regard to speed...
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Get a decent console!!
A bit of browsing will not make much difference to gaming - pings may increase, but pings mean precisely sod all with regard to speed...
Nice cheap option there :P
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Get a decent console!!
A bit of browsing will not make much difference to gaming - pings may increase, but pings mean precisely sod all with regard to speed...
We have adecent console thanks.
It is these silly faceache games, they do a lot of loading, if I could restrict I would.
Personally I'd love to add facefart to hosts.
So waht router would be recommended.
Needs
1) Work with BT Vision
2) Will be usable with FTTC as that is due next year
3) I can set QOS for the PS3 to get the best connection and so I don't get kicked off half way through and I am scoring the highest on my team!
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Get a decent console!!
A bit of browsing will not make much difference to gaming - pings may increase, but pings mean precisely sod all with regard to speed...
Nice cheap option there :P
Sorry decent consoles are still £250 but then could get the Move pack or a new one with GT5
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Get a decent console!!
Remember I use ours to play games as well as watch Blu Rays, yours are only media extenders.
What is wrong with getting to 10 days playing online on one game?
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Are you positive it's facebook games, i'd be really really surprised if that was killing your bandwidth. I'd be more inclined to look for P2P/torrent software myself, if it's set for unlimited connections it will soak up all your available bandwidth which in the case of upstream won't be that much.
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Are you positive it's facebook games, i'd be really really surprised if that was killing your bandwidth. I'd be more inclined to look for P2P/torrent software myself, if it's set for unlimited connections it will soak up all your available bandwidth which in the case of upstream won't be that much.
yes she loads 4 or 5 at a time, my wife does 1 at a time., guess which causes me to lock up >:(
Luckily I was crouched behind a wall when it locked time 1, time 2 noone saw me, time 3 lucky again, time 4 connection error and lost about 30,000 points. All in about 2 minutes.
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Putting on my IT manager hat i'm still not convinced, let me give you examples. I'm on 10mb cable, connected to my router are:
My PC: Running Opera browser with always in excess of 30 tabs open using 600mb RAM, Warcraft playing on full settings.
Wife's PC: Running Facebook in 1 IE8 window
Daughters PC: Running Facebook in 1 IE8 window, plus youtube music vids
Xbox360 playing online games
2 * Iphones connected but not necessarily in use.
Now this isn't all the time but it is frequent enough, and none of us have link problems. The only time Warcraft became unplayable for me was when my daughter loaded Limewire, I killed that sharpish.
Personally I would look elsewhere as any regular broadband should be able to support your usage.
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Nope, the console + game combo must be poor.
Remember, when my consoles go online, they have to fight all the traffic of OOF, plus other hosted services, plus syncs to internet, VPN to my brothers, plus whatever else the 21 VMs on the OOF server happen to be doing at any point (christ knows!). Yet its utterly unheard of for my consoles to drop out. And I'd put my right bollock that you have a faster connection speed ;)
Mind you, hasn't improved my CoD abilities ;D ;D ;D
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Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.
I think your issue is elsewhere.
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Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.
I think your issue is elsewhere.
Homehub router?
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Nope, the console + game combo must be poor.
Remember, when my consoles go online, they have to fight all the traffic of OOF, plus other hosted services, plus syncs to internet, VPN to my brothers, plus whatever else the 21 VMs on the OOF server happen to be doing at any point (christ knows!). Yet its utterly unheard of for my consoles to drop out. And I'd put my right bollock that you have a faster connection speed ;)
Mind you, hasn't improved my CoD abilities ;D ;D ;D
After the equivalent of 10 days play I am actually now not bad at Uncharted 2 online
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Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.
I think your issue is elsewhere.
Homehub router?
Nope. The game/console/gaming service should be able to cope with varying latency, seeing as virtually all users we be on ADSL or cable.
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Are you connecting to the hub via wi-fi? If so can you try a direct connection with a Cat5 cable, my pos Zyxel router had issues with the xbox wi-fi that ended up with me just disabling n and only leaving b/g active.