How can I purposely slow down the Internet connection for everyone in my house, discreetly?
I have been in support for a long time.There are usually two questions. What do you want to do and why do you want to do it. You have luckily answered both honestly.Your first question is your solution to your second question, and it is a poor one. It involves deceiving your parents to get them to do what you want. Grow up! Solve the problem yourself!Do you have proof the ISP is "ripping you off?" Your parents dont "care" because life is busy, or their internet habits do not require fast speed. Go to speedtest.net and run the test several times, recording uoload abd download speeds. Repeat every hour or two for a day or two.. Not necessary to do while you are sleeping unless you torrent during the night. Use a wired connection if possible, or at least keep your laptop next to wifi router. If possible, rerun on another device to ensure issue is not your pc.Your speed will fluctuate depending on time of day. And if its dsl, it wl fluctuate depending how many neighbors in your dsl shared pool are using their internet too.If its really bad you can try unplugging your broadband gateway/router (some call this a modem). For instance, Comcast will very occasionally bump up speed by sending code to comcast router, but it won't work until modem is restarted.If your analysis shows that download and /or upload speeds are not close to the tier group you pay for, give their tech support line a call. Yourself. Make sure your parents know about it. You may be on hold for a while. Or not. They may run a test remotely, or scedule a visit. This should be free if they own the router, which they almost certainly do.
Can you watch Netflix without an internet connection?
Yes you can. But first, you’d need Internet Connection to watch Netflix without Internet Connection.Bit confusing?Well, let me explain then….Netflix is a streaming service so you MUST need internet connection to stream a movie or show on Netflix.But sometimes we want to watch movies offline, especially when we have long ride.So to deal with it, you can simply download Movies when you are online so you can later watch them offline.And then, it won’t require you have an Internet connection.Simple….So just select the Netflix movies and series that you would like to watch and then download them.Of course, streaming sites like NetFlix and Hulu don’t have a downloading option, but you can easily take care of it using a handy downloader.For instance, I myself use iTube Studio to download movies from Hulu. It automatically shows a handy “Download” button on top of the movie that I stream. And to download it, I simply make one click on that “download” button.It works same on YouTube, ESPN, and NetFlix as well. So you can use this handy downloader.It allows you to transfer your downloaded movies to your Mobile phone, so I believe you will like this tool.And there are many such handy downloaders that allow download movies from NetFlix, and you can find a list of them right here Netflix Downloader: Top 5 Free Netflix Video Downloader Download for Mac and PCHope this helpsCheers…
I recently found out that my son has been streaming movies for free from a site called 123movies. Am I going to be paid a visit by the cops? He claims that since he's only streaming the movies and not downloading them it's not illegal.
You won’t get a visit from “the cops” because it’s not a crime to stream or download movies, even if they’re “illegal”. Downloading unauthorized copies of a video for personal use is, in the United States, at most civil copyright infringement (and in some situations is not even that). It’s not a crime, and so the police will not be involved. You may get sued by the movie distributor, but there won’t be any cops coming to visit (except possibly to serve you with notice of the lawsuit).In addition, a stream is not a copy under US copyright law (US copyright law doesn’t cover what are called ephemeral copies) and so if he’s just streaming, he’s not committing any offense. The site providing the stream may be, and if they’re streaming illegally, they’re the ones on the hook for civil (and possibly criminal) copyright infringement, not you or your son. It is illegal to offer a stream (or download) of copyrighted audio or audiovisual content without a license from the copyright owner; it is not an offense to receive such a stream.The problem that people who download videos get into is that the tools used for downloading them usually also offer the downloaded content for further redistribution to others who want to download it. It’s this reoffering for further download by others that creates the legal problem for the downloader, not the download itself.Keep in mind that it’s also possible that what they’re doing is legal. Perhaps they generate revenue through advertisements embedded in or displayed alongside the stream, which they use to pay the royalties. Or they have some other arrangement that allows them to offer this content legally (or quasi-legally) without collecting a fee from their customers. If that’s what they do, it’s perfectly legal. (I have no idea what 123movies business model is, nor do I care.)
Why is my external hard drive not showing up in my computer?
Answering to give another option of what MAY be the problem.As you stated the hard drive isn’t showing up in “my computer”, I’m taking this as you mean within the “folder” My Computer (or simply Computer for newer versions of Windows), it may need to be formatted and drive letter assigned. This is a problem I run into every blue moon and after about 15-minutes of fidgeting around I figure out this simple problem.Open the start-menu, and right-click on “My Computer” (or “Computer” for newer operating systems), then select “Manage”. Once the Computer Manager window opens, on the left side panel, expand “Storage” and you should see “Disk Management”, select it. Within the main window you should see all your drives on display: OS (C:), CD/DVD (D:), and so on. Look for a volume that defines your external hard drive but doesn’t have the parenthesis around a single letter. This is likely your new external hard drive.Right-click the volume, then select “Change Device Letter and Paths”. In the next window click “Add…”. And in the next window click the radio button for “Assign the following drive letter”, then in the drop-down to the right, select a letter for the drive. Once done, click OK and back in the main Computer Management window, the volume should now read “Volume_Name_here (F:)”, where “F” is the letter you’ve assigned to the hard drive. The external hard drive should now show up in My Computer (Computer).Again, not saying any of the existing answers wrong, but giving another potential answer due to the lack of details given. Change, add, or remove a drive letter - Windows Help