How to Trace Mobile Numbers Back to the Caller

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNKeXsrp-CVOXkx8MNLLealH7TmhpjF8uFQ1zNwFZP5kaNC4el1w-YWUlpxARm85rWOSsmHsg2sFf_C7z3ztOcN4DHfg5yoDuAY-ayM-rG7sgZrovPFZrcBoUpPbbRjnEZtD67A8zxOBL/s1600/Trace_Mobile-300x171.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNKeXsrp-CVOXkx8MNLLealH7TmhpjF8uFQ1zNwFZP5kaNC4el1w-YWUlpxARm85rWOSsmHsg2sFf_C7z3ztOcN4DHfg5yoDuAY-ayM-rG7sgZrovPFZrcBoUpPbbRjnEZtD67A8zxOBL/s1600/Trace_Mobile-300x171.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the rapid growth of mobile phone usage in recent years, it is often observed that it has also become a part of many illegal and criminal activities. So, in most cases tracing the mobile number becomes a vital part of the investigation process. Also, sometimes we just want to trace a mobile number back to the caller for reasons like annoying prank calls, blackmails, unknown number in a missed call list and so on.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to Trace Any Mobile Number?</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, there are several ways to do this. The easiest way to gain access to the details of any mobile number is by using a reliable paid service that has records of over millions of mobile and landline users in its database. If you’re really serious to find out the name and address of the person behind the mobile number, then this is the right choice. You can use the following service to get the details of any phone number (mobile and landline).</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #444444;">Please note that the above service works only for the “United States” telephone numbers.</span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go To </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cell Phone Registry – Trace Any Mobile Number</span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other Possible Ways to Trace a Mobile Number:</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now let us look at some of the free options that are available. Even though it is not possible to trace the number back to the caller using the free services, it is possible to trace it to the location of the caller and also find the network operator. Just have a look at this page on tracing Indian mobile numbers from Wikipedia. Using the information provided on this page, it is possible to certainly trace any mobile number from India and find out the location (state/city) and network operator (mobile operator) of the caller.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All you need for this is only the first 4-digit of the mobile number. In this Wiki page you will find all the mobile number series listed in a nice tabular column where they are categorized based on mobile operator and the zone (state/city). This Wiki page is updated regularly so as to provide up-to-date information on newly added mobile number series and operators. I have used this page many a time and have never been disappointed.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to use a simpler interface where in you can just enter the target mobile number and trace the desired details, you can try this link from Numbering Plans. With this, you can trace any number in the world.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><a href="http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=phonenr" target="_blank">Go To Search</a></b></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #444444;">After the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in India, methods discussed above are not found to be very much accurate.</span></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By using the above free services, you can only know “where” the call is from and not “who” the caller is. Only the mobile operator is able to tell you “who” the caller is, Unfortunately in India, there is no such paid service that gives you more accurate details about the caller. So, if you are in an emergency and need to find out the actual person behind the call, I would recommend that you file a complaint and take the help of the police. I hope this information has helped you.</span></div> <br /></div>

How to Trace Mobile Numbers Back to the Caller

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What is a Proxy Server and How it Works?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">In a computer network, a </span><strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">proxy server</strong><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> is any computer system offering a service that acts as an intermediary between the two communicating parties, the client and the server. In the presence of a proxy server, there is no direct communication between the client and the server. Instead, the client connects to the proxy server and sends requests for resources such as a document, web page or a file that resides on a remote server. The proxy server handles this request by fetching the required resources from the remote server and forwarding the same to the client.</span></span></h3> <div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">How Proxy Server Works?</span></h3> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">An illustration of how a proxy server works is shown below:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Working of a Proxy Server" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Working-of-Proxy-Server.jpg" /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">As shown in the above example, whenever the client connects to a web proxy server and makes a request for the resources (in this case, “Sample.html”) that reside on a remote server (in this case, xyz.com), the proxy server forwards this request to the target server on behalf of the client, so as to fetch the requested resource and deliver it back to the client. An example of client can be a user operated computer that is connected to the Internet.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Types of Proxy Servers and their Uses:</span></h3> <div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Forward Proxies:</span></h3> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">A forward proxy is the same one described above where the proxy server forwards the client’s request to the target server to establish a communication between the two. Here the client specifies the resources to be fetched and the target server to connect to, so that the forward proxy server acts accordingly. Except for </span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">reverse proxy</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> (discussed in the latter part of this article), all other types of proxy servers described in this article falls under </span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">forward proxy</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></div> <div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Open Proxy:</span></h3> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">An </span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">open proxy</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> is a type of </span><em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">forwarding proxy</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> that is openly available to any Internet user. Most often, an open proxy is used by Internet users to conceal their IP address so that they remain anonymous during their web activity. The following are some of the web proxies that fall under the <b>category of </b></span><b><em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">open proxy</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">:</span></b></span></div> <div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></h4> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anonymous Proxy:</span></i></h4> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">An </span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">anonymous proxy</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> is a type of open proxy that conceals IP address of Internet users so that the target server cannot identify the origin of the requesting client. However, an anonymous proxy identifies itself as a proxy server but still manages to maintain the anonymity of the users.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div> <div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Distorting Proxy:</span></i></h4> </div> <div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy, but reveals an incorrect IP address of the client to the target server.</span></div> </div> <div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High Anonymity Proxy (Elite Proxy):</span></i></h4> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">An </span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">elite proxy </strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">provides maximum anonymity as it neither identifies itself as a proxy nor reveals the original IP address of the client. In most cases, users have to pay for this type of proxy as it is seldom available freely on the Internet.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Reverse Proxy</span></h3> </div> <div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike a forwarding proxy where the client knows that it is connecting through a proxy, a <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reverse proxy</strong> appears to the client as an ordinary server. However, when the client requests resources from this server, it forwards those requests to the target server (actual server where the resources reside) so as to fetch back the requested resource and forward the same to the client. Here, the client is given an impression that it is connecting to the actual server, but in reality there exists a reverse proxy residing between the client and the actual server.</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.7999992370605px;">Reverse proxies are often used to reduce load on the actual server by</span><span style="line-height: 23.7999992370605px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0060a6; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">load balancing</a><span style="line-height: 23.7999992370605px;">, to enhance security and to cache static content, so that they can be served faster to the client. Often big companies like Google which gets a large number of hits maintain a reverse proxy so as to enhance the performance of their servers. It is not a surprise that whenever you are connecting to google.com, you are only connecting to a reverse proxy that forwards your search queries to the actual servers to return the results back to you.</span></span></div> </div> </div>

What is a Proxy Server and How it Works?

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Easy Ways To Hide Your IP Address Online

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: blue;">How To Hide IP Address Online</span></h3> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Hide IP Address" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hide-IP-Address_small.jpg" title="T2 Tricks" /></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every computer on the Internet has a unique IP address allotted to it which makes it possible to trace it back to its exact location. Even though the concept of Internet Protocol address has been designed for its transparency and traceability, in some cases this questions the privacy of the Internet user where one would not like to reveal his/her identity to the outside world.</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, if you are one such person who is in search of ways to <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hide your IP address online</strong>, then you are at the right place. In this post, I will discuss some of the easy and popular ways to mask your IP address so that your identity and privacy is kept safe.</span></div> <h2 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why Hide IP Address?</span></h2> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following are some of the common reasons why people want to mask their IP address online:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By hiding the IP address, people can browse websites anonymously without leaving the trace of their identity.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To access websites and portals that are not available to the IP addresse’s their Geo location.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay safe from intruders and hackers by showing a fake IP to the world.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hiding IP means hiding geographical location.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hiding IP prevents leaving a digital footprint of their online activity.</span></li> </ol> <h2 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to Hide Your IP?</span></h2> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the most common ways to hide IP and safeguard your online identity are discussed below:</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Using a VPN Proxy – The Safe and Secure Way to Hide Your IP</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using a trusted VPN service is the best way to hide your IP during your online activities. Here is a list of most popular and highly reliable VPN services that you can go for:</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>   Hide My Ass VPN</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.7em;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.7em;">– Hide My Ass is one of the most popular and trusted VPN service that allows people to easily conceal their IP address and protect their online privacy.</span></span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hidemyass.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" Download Free" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3ecwV266HQqGpoMM1V2xqWMbg0kmsTbaAuBIM1AGb4DlrXa40U4icwEMGobX27wc-5Yad2wuyaeOA1O5xiA1W5Kf1vw-O_F-cRpnKn8c3FZ0M0BGuGfO4nin1nok-bp7ksj6RXKp6ww/s1600/download_button-11.gif" title="T2 Tricks" /></a></span></div> </div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">   <b>VyprVPN</b></span><span style="line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><b> </b>– VyprVPN offers the world’s fastest VPN services to its clients and supports wide range of operating systems including Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.</span></span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.goldenfrog.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt=" Download Free" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3ecwV266HQqGpoMM1V2xqWMbg0kmsTbaAuBIM1AGb4DlrXa40U4icwEMGobX27wc-5Yad2wuyaeOA1O5xiA1W5Kf1vw-O_F-cRpnKn8c3FZ0M0BGuGfO4nin1nok-bp7ksj6RXKp6ww/s1600/download_button-11.gif" title="T2 Tricks" /></span></a></div> </div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following are some of the advantages of using a VPN service over any other method of concealing your IP address:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to hiding your IP, a VPN service encrypts all your web traffic to keep you safe from hackers and intruders.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike other IP hiding methods (discussed in the latter part of this article) which affects your speed of browsing, a VPN service keeps your Internet speed fast without affecting its performance.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have a long list of countries and states to select from as your place of origin. For example, if you are originally from United Kingdom, you may choose an IP address that belong to United States so that the websites that you visit will see you as from US and not UK.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By selecting an IP address of your choice, you can easily bypass location blocks and even access restricted websites that are not available for your country.</span><div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </li> </ol> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Website Based Proxy Servers</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is another popular way to quickly mask IP address on the Internet. Since it is a web based service, users need not have to install any piece of software program on their computer. The following are some of the popular websites that offer free services to hide IP address:</span></div> <ul style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hidemyass.com/">www.hidemyass.com</a></span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.newipnow.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #0060a6; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.newipnow.com</span></a></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://anonymouse.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; color: #0060a6; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anonymouse.org</span></a></li> </ul> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The downside of using these free services to hide your IP address is that most of them become overloaded and are too slow to use. In addition, some of them will not offer a secured connection (SSL) and you will often be presented with annoying ads and pop-ups during the course of your browsing.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Browser Configured Proxy Servers</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are hundreds of freely available open proxies that can be found on the Internet. You can obtain the IP address of one of those freely available proxy servers and configure your browser to start hiding your original IP address. However, as they are openly available to public, most of them are either dead or perform too slow under normal conditions.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Which Service to Choose?</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have made my sincere attempt to present readers with all the available options to successfully hide the IP address on their computers. If you only want to hide your IP address for a specific amount of time and are not concerned with the performance, go for the free web based services. On the other hand, if you have the necessity to hide your IP on a regular basis, need high security and performance, go for paid VPN services like Hide My Ass or VyprVPN.</span></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>What is Browser Cookies How its Work Explain</b></span></h3> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Most Internet users are familiar with the term “</span><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Cookie</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">” but only a few know what exactly it is and the purpose it serves. This article will help you understand the working of different types of browser cookies in a simple and easy to follow manner.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Browser Cookie" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Browser-Cookie_Big.jpg" title="T2 Tricks " /></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To begin with, a <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cookie</strong> (also known as <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">browser cookie</strong>, <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet cookie</strong>, <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">web cookie</strong> or <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HTTP cookie</strong>) is a small piece of data that websites store on your hard disk in the form of a text file. Cookies allow websites to store specific information helpful to remember each visitor uniquely. A cookie is set when the user visits a particular website for the first time. Thereafter, each time the user loads the website the browser sends the cookie back to the web server so that it can keep track of the user’s previous activity.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Purpose of Browser Cookies:</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following are some of the common purposes served by cookies:</span></div> <ul style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enable automatic user log-in thereby eliminating the need for a password input</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enhance user experience by storing user preferences so that the site can look different for each visitor</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep track of items in the shopping cart</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Record user’s activity such as browsing history, click patterns, page visits and so on</span></li> </ul> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Types of Browser Cookies:</span></h3> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Session Cookie</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since web pages have no memories, a visitor navigating to a different page on the same website is treated as an entirely new visitor. This is where <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">session cookies</strong> come in handy. It makes it possible for the website to keep track of the user from page to page so that user specific information such as shopping cart data, account details and other preferences are not lost during navigation.</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A session cookie is stored in the temporary memory while the user is on the website. If no expiry date is specified during its creation, session cookies are normally deleted by the browsers upon closure.</span></div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Persistent Cookie</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">persistent cookie</strong> facilitates websites to track user settings and information when they visit the same website in the future. Unlike most session cookies, a persistent cookie does not get deleted upon browser closure. This makes it possible for the websites to easily authenticate users upon revisits without having to login again. In addition, persistent cookies help enhance user experience by storing their previous inputs such as language selection, themes and menu preferences.</span></div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Secure Cookie</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">secure cookie</strong> has a secure attribute enabled so that its content gets encrypted every time it moves between the web server and the browser. This cookie is used only in the HTTPS mode and thus offers protection against cookie theft.</span></div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Third-Party Cookie</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Third-party cookies</strong> are those that originate from a website other than the one that you are currently using. For example, when you visit a website<strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.abc.com</strong>, all the cookies that come from this website are called <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">first-party</em>cookies. Suppose, if this website (www.abc.com) is running an advertisement on its page from a third party website <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.xyz.com</strong>, then the cookie that originates from this website (www.xyz.com) is referred to as a <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">third-party</em> cookie.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Structure of a Cookie</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cookie is comprised of the following seven components:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name of the cookie</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Value/Content of the cookie</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Domain associated with the cookie</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Path for which the cookie is valid</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attribute to specify whether the cookie requires a secure connection</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attribute specifying whether the cookie can be accessed by a script</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expiry information of the cookie</span></li> </ol> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following snapshot shows the contents of Google’s cookie stored on chrome browser:</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Contents of Google's Cookie" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Cookie-Contents.jpg" /></span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Drawbacks of Cookies</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though cookies make our lives easier on the Internet, they come with drawbacks as well. Some of the major ones are listed below:</span></div> <ul style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shared Machines</strong>: Most people share their computers with their friends and family. As a result, a cookie set during the usage of one user may not be appropriate for the other user using the same machine. For example, when a new user revisits a shopping website such as amazon.com, he/she will be presented with all the information belonging to the previous user such as order details, shipping address and other personal preferences. This may cause annoyance to the new user as he/she may be required to change all the preferences once again to match personal requirements. Additionally, the exposure of previous user’s preferences and settings to the new user may raise security issues.</span></div> </li> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: disc inside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Accidental Deletion</strong>: In many cases, cookies can get erased accidentally when you clear your browsing history or use a third party cookie cleaner program. When this happens all your stored settings and preference gets lost and the website treats you as a completely new user.</span></div> </li> <h3 style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Privacy Issues</span></h3> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since cookies are capable of tracking a number of user specific information such as online behavior and personal preferences, they can be used to hamper the privacy of users. A website may use cookie information to display related advertising products based on your previous purchase. For example, Google often stores and uses your search keywords to display matching advertisements on all its partner network. Some sites are also known to have engaged in selling the cookie data to third parties which seriously hurts the privacy of individuals.</span></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; float: none; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 969;"> </div> </ul> </div> </div>

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How to Bypass Right Click Block on Any Website

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to Bypass Right Click Block on Any Website</span></h3> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Bypass Right Click Block" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bypass_Right-Click-Block.jpg" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might remember an experience where you tried to right-click on a web page but got a pop-up message saying that the “right-click functionality has been disabled”. Sometimes you may be trying to copy an image or view the source of a web page but when the right-click is disabled, these things would seem impossible. Bank websites and other sites that require a secure transaction such as a payment gateway are the ones to impose this kind of limited functionality on their pages. In this post, I will show you the ways by which you can easily bypass right-click block feature on any website.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to block the right-click activity, most websites make use of JavaScript which is one of the popular scripting languages used to enhance functionality, improve user experience and provide rich interactive features. In addition to this, it can also be used to strengthen the website’s security by adding some of the simple security features such as <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disabling right-click</em>, <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">protecting images</em>,<em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> hiding or masking parts of a web page</em> and so on.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How JavaScript Works?</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before you proceed to the next part which tells you how to disable the JavaScript functionality and bypass any of the restrictions imposed by it, it would be worthwhile for you to take up a minute to understand how JavaScript works.</span></div> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JavaScript is a client side scripting language (in most cases), which means when loaded it runs from your own web browser. Most modern browsers including IE, Firefox, Chrome and others support JavaScript so that they can interpret the code and carry out actions that are defined in the script. In other words, it is your browser which is acting upon the instruction of JavaScript to carry out the defined actions such as blocking the right-click activity. So, disabling the JavaScript support on your browser can be a simple solution to bypass all the restrictions imposed by the website.</span></div> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to Disable the JavaScript?</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a step-by-step procedure to disable JavaScript on different browsers:</span></div> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Internet Explorer:</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are using IE, just follow the steps below:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the menu bar, go to <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools -> Internet Options</strong>.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the “Internet Options” window, switch to <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Security</em> tab and click on the button <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Custom level…</em></span></li> </ol> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="IE Security Settings" height="320" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IE_Security_Settings.jpg" width="304" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Security Settings</em>, look for the option <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Active scripting</em> and select the <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Disable</em> radio button as shown above and click on “OK”.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may even select the <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prompt</em> radio button, so that each time a page is loaded, you will have the option to either enable or disable the scripting.</span></li> </ol> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Google Chrome:</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are using Chrome, you can disable the JavaScript by following the steps below:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click on the Chrome “menu” button (on the top right corner) and select<em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools</em>.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the “Settings” page, click on <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Show advanced settings…</em></span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now under <strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Privacy</strong>, click on the button <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Content settings…</em></span></li> </ol> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Chrome Content Settings" height="320" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Chrome_Content_Settings.jpg" width="308" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the <em style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JavaScript</em>, select the radio button which says “Do not allow any site to run JavaScript” and click on “Done”.</span></li> </ol> <h4 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Mozilla Firefox:</span></h4> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steps to disable JavaScript on Firefox:</span></div> <ol style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the menu bar, click on<strong style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tools -> Options</strong>.</span></li> <li style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the Options window, switch to Content tab, uncheck the option which says “Enable JavaScript” and click on “OK”</span></li> </ol> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Firefox Content Options" height="300" src="http://www.gohacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Firefox_Content_Options.jpg" width="320" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <h3 style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to Bypass the Right Click Block?</span></h3> <div style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to bypass the right-click block or any other restriction imposed by JavaScript, all you need to do is just disable it in the browser and refresh the same page, so that it now reloads without JavaScript functionality. You are now free to right-click on the page, view its source or even copy any of the images that you may want to. Don’t forget to re-enable the JavaScript once again when your job is over. Otherwise lack of JavaScript support may result in unusual rendering of web pages.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Internet Download Speed too Low | How to Fix?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGfB7-3SSF3CxEV-bXQXCuXg4whrynE6x0gKinxGUsY0qP2ZnJ6sggRyd5KWGSL9HMfD_HFnwfrp5FakV8OkzyezctSLKgChPae_GfflH5G3ZOHoYAyDcbHbgOg33fdkWB5uK7_RwSRCd/s320/img_52f408dc8fb80.jpg" width="320" /></div> <h3 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: red;">Why is My Download Speed Slower Than the Internet | How to Fix?</span></span></h3> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Your ISP advertises a 40Mb connection, but that doesn’t look anything like the download speed you see when you’re grabbing a big file. What’s the deal? Are you not getting all the bandwidth you’re paying for?</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Let’s start by delving back into the history of computer networks. Data transferover networks has always been measured in bits. A bit is the smallest and most basic unit of measurement in computing and digital communications. Bits are most commonly represented in the binary system, via 0 and 1. Bit, in fact, is a contraction of the the longer phrase “Binary Digit”.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The speed of networks is denoted using a bit-per-second notation written bits/second and almost always shortened to b/s. Originally networks were so slow that their speed was measured in just bits. Then the network speeds increased and we started using the prefix kilo to denote thousands of bits. Nearly everyone throughout the 1990s connected to their ISPs using 56k modems (or, 56 Kb/s). Then with the advent and adoption of broadband technology likeDSL and cable modems, speeds increased again and we started talking about speeds in terms of not just bits or kilobits, but megabits and consumers started seeing connection speeds framed in terms of MB/s.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now, here’s where things get confusing for the average non-geeky-Joe. Computer storage is not measured in bits, it’s measured in bytes. A bit, as we’ve established, is the tiniest unit of measurement in the digital kingdom, that primordial 1 or 0. A byte, however, is unit of digital information that (in nearly every computer system and most certainly in the Windows, Linux, or OS Xsystem you’re using) is eight bits long. Another term, used by computer scientists to avoid confusion over the different size byte structures out there in the world, is octet. In other words, the byte system that your operating systemuses is a bunch of bits strung together in groups of eight.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This difference is where it, on the surface, all seems to fall apart. You see, you have a broadband connection that is capable of 40 megabits per second (under ideal conditions, 40,000,000 bits come down the line). However, as we just learned, a byte is 8 bits. Your operating system  and all the apps on it (web browsers, download helpers, torrent clients, etc.) all measure data transmission and volume in bytes not bits. If we divide the speed of your connection (measured in bits) by 8, we arrive at something resembling the download speed you’re seeing in your speed tests: 40,000,000 bits becomes 5,000,000 bytes. Divide those values by a million to get us back to a more comfortable mega denotation and they become 40 megabits and 5 megabytes, respectively. Slap on the per-second label to indicate we’re talking about data transmission speeds and suddenly we have the speed your ISP is advertising (40 Mb/s) and the speed you’re seeing when you max your connection (5 MB/s).</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although it’s certainly confusing to consumers, you are in fact getting exactly what you’re paying for (and can even pat yourself on the back because you’re getting downloads speeds consistently at the edge of what your internet package supports).</span></div>

Internet Download Speed too Low | How to Fix?

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