HughesTech Labs:

Fix Your Slow Internet Access, if you use Wi-Fi for your Internet Access and for no apparent reason it becomes very slow or just un-useable, then check this out:

Did you know that the wireless Telephones most people use around the house or office operate in the same Frequency Spectrum that is also allocated to the Wi-fi band of frequencies? Of course not most people don’t.

Here is a real-life scenario; My Son was using his wireless Xbox 360 and started complaining to his Mother that the Internet wireless provided by AT&T’s U-verse RG 3800HGV-B (2Wire) wireless router was super slow, she was also on her laptop seeing the same results.

Of course they confronted me with their problem, which I was not seeing while using a LAN connection to the RG 3800HGV-B Router.

So I walked upstairs to my Son’s room and had a look around, there it was, in plain sight an AT&T Wireless house phone sitting about 2 feet from the XBox 360. I removed the phone and put it back where it belonged (down stairs) and the Wi-FI Problem was SOLVED.

REALY, was it solved? I was curious as to why my Wife’s laptop was also slow, when the problem was in the Kid’s room.

I checked the RG 3800HGV-B Router’s status page and noticed that the wireless was getting almost 100% in errors while the wireless phone was near the Kid’s Xbox 360.

This FIX of moving the wireless phone to another location also fixed the Wife’s slow Internet Access. So not only did it cause problems with the Kid’s Internet Access, it was a Wi-Fi wide problem for all users.

So the moral of this story is, MOVE YOUR WIRELESS TELEPHONES away from Wireless Routers, Laptops, video games and anything that uses Wi-Fi……

This should really FIX a ton of Wi-Fi issues people are having.

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HughesTech Labs:

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HughesTech Labs:

Our Engineers have been reviewing Internet security protection schema’s and want to inform users of the false sense of security you may have with your current Internet Security Systems.

Whether you are a System Administrator for a business or just a Home System Administrator, Firewalls are great for blocking certain internet port numbers, but they are simply “child’s play” when it comes to Internet Security!

Most Networks, have internal web servers which use Internet port 80 or port 443 for SSL type connections so that the internet community can visit their web sites. This is where Firewalls are useless, you can’t block port 80 or port 443 and expect that the Internet community can visit your internal web sites.

Guess what? Most of today’s Malware, Viruses, Bots and Trojans are transported via port 80!

So what type of Internet Security do you have in place if you have ports 80 & 443 open in your Firewall? You have no protection at all! If you are a Network Administrator and all you have in your arsenal is a Firewall, you better think about  CYA real quick before you are looking for a new job!

Protecting PCs and Network Servers is after the fact, the true fact is, you have this crap (Viruses etc.) in your internal network!

Most anti-virus software you install on Client PCs and Servers, only works if a known footprint is detected, well viruses are being released to the Internet as I type this and your anti-virus software knows nothing about these!

We have been reviewing an Internet Security System that works at an Internet Level where the “Root Cause Starts”.

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