Category: networking

Reconnect when your Network Connection Drops Out in Windows 10

Sometimes a network connection can drop out suddenly, and you’re just left with a “can’t connect” planet icon in the System Tray. The usual solution would be to restart the PC, but you might have something open on the desktop that will be lost if…

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Limit the Bandwidth Used by OneDrive and Dropbox in Windows 10

If like me you have to shuffle a lot of files back and forth to the cloud, then you might find that the cloud service apps such as Microsoft’s OneDrive, and Dropbox, can consume quite a lot of bandwidth. This can become a real problem…

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Limit the Bandwidth an App Can Use with NetLimiter in Windows 10

Okay so there’s a story behind this article. A few months ago I moved from my house in the UK, to the South of France. This has afforded me a wonderfully peaceful lifestyle in the countryside, but has come with the downside of a very…

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Managing Corrupt Wi-Fi Networks in Windows 10

Wi-Fi is brilliant, it enables all of us to stay connected to the world around us whenever, wherever we are. However when something goes wrong and the Wi-Fi connection becomes corrupt, you can quickly find yourself locked out of the network you need to connect…

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