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Having DSL can be such a joy, especially for those who have experienced the misery that can be dial up internet. There does come a time, however when it is time to go from one DSL provider to another so that it works better for you.

Whether you are dissatisfied with the service that the DSL provider you are working with now is providing or you have just found someone who can offer better service and a better rate, switching service providers can be a great thing to do. At the same time it can be rather frustrating, and there is nothing worse than switching your internet provider just to find out that you should have stuck with the one you had in the first place.

If this sounds like you, make sure that you keep these things in mind when looking for a new provider to switch your service to. Whether you want to believe it or not, it may be better for you to stick with the provider you are currently working with.

If you are switching from one provider to another and getting a better rate for a lower speed, you might want to rethink that. Sure, you are probably thinking that you aren’t really in a hurry as it is and that you want to save a bit of money in the process. For casual internet users who depend on their connection for email and instant messaging that may all be well and fine but for anyone else, you might want to consider going another route.

If you work at home or you download music, pictures, or video you are going to need a higher internet connection speed to work with or you may find yourself frustrated with your internet connection more often than not.

Whatever you do, do not switch your internet to a DSL provider that promises to give you six months of internet service for a ridiculously low price. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Read the fine print before you sign up for anything like this and make sure that the price you are paying is the price you are always going to be paying. For example, if you are paying a lower rate for six months and then every month of service thereafter is considerably more and you are obligated to a 12 month contract, that is not a good deal.

If your current service provider is charging you a bit more than what your introductory rate would be with another company but that is going to be your rate for however long you have service with them, you may want to consider staying with them.

Switching internet companies may be the best or worst decision that you have ever made for your budget. While it is extremely important to make sure that you find a DSL provider that you can afford, those who are thinking about switching should do all of their research before doing so.

“While preventing surfing through web-based proxies is the key offering from the latest Cyberoam version release, there’s more to it than that.

The release also captures the latest trends in surfing and downloads. Streaming radio and TV online is one area. The other is rising mobile application downloads with our growing fascination with the latest in mobile phones. Cyberoam’s content filtering today stands enhanced with 82+ comprehensive categories, making it one of the most comprehensive category databases. The key area we focused on this time is controlling access to emerging unproductive sites.

What we have added are categories like ‘AudioSearch’ and ‘Internet/Radio/TV’; and then there is the ‘MobileEntertainment’ category to block mobile application downloads.

Unchecked HTTP uploads are a significant cause of data leakage. Cyberoam already carried the ability to block document upload over HTTP. Now it reports filenames uploaded via webmail attachments or to storage sites along with the username in keeping with its identity-based security architecture. The benefits we had in mind when taking up this development is to help in audit controls and meeting compliance requirements, all of which play a critical role in preventing data leakage.

Another enhancement to prevent data leakage is the detection and prevention of phone home spyware by Cyberoam IPS, preventing spyware in the network from sending out sensitive data. It also gives details of the infected PC with the username and the spyware application name. This way you zero in the user and the machine instantly even if you are operating in a dynamic IP scenario.

So that’s the main highlights of Cyberoam version 9.5.4.66. It’s to do with greater security, productivity and control over data leakage. And the complete release is on http://www.cyberoam.com/versionrelease.html.“

“Cyberoam is the closest customers get to security that carries human intelligence. That’s what United Kingdom saw in Cyberoam.

I don’t normally post on the partner world in this blog, although identity being necessary with security for now and the future is a cause close to my heart and belief system and I look forward to opportunities to write on it. But with the reception we received with the UK partner community, I can’t help referring to the Cyberoam launch here. And I’m sure the welcome is more for the user identity the partners could see in Cyberoam than for the Go-Karting where they had great fun.

And this was true of both London and Manchester where we met the partners. More came from Leeds, Birmingham, Cardiff & Bristol. So it was a fair representation.

The dip in Firewall/VPN purchases, for long the arbiters of security basics, is a clear indication that customers have long headed towards UTMs. IDC does say that the Firewall/VPN market has dipped with a -0.3 % growth in Q1 2008 over the same period last year.

With more than 10 vendors offering their UTMs in UK, partners and customers are ready for something more.

Not just for the sake of being different, but for one that offers real value. Well, if customers are moving from Firewall to UTM, they had a reason. Now if they are demanding more than a UTM, they have a reason too.

A valid reason. And it is that they see the need to humanize security. To see the users and what they do, the way humans can, making the security response individualized, taking into consideration the context and the individual quirks in behaviour.

Essentially, what attracted them is the fact that Cyberoam is the closest they’d get to human security – the ability to know the user and his or her pattern of activity. That takes security to a different realm – that of human control with all the nuance and intelligence involved.

There’s nothing automatic about security. It’s human.”

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If you live out in the country and you hate being stuck with plain old dial-up internet service, but cannot get DSL or cable service in your area because it is so far from town, the best solution available to you at the moment is satellite internet service.

This is classified as a type of broadband service and is kin to DSL and cable internet service, but the difference is that is requires no ground wiring to work. The satellite dish is mounted on the side or roof of the house and allows you to receive your internet almost the same way you would receive a satellite TV signal.

There are a few bad things about the old dial-up system that used to be the only way you could get online. The first is the fact that it used your phone line to connect to the internet. Not only is this inefficient, but you can neither place nor receive calls while the internet is connected.

If you try to dial a number with your phone while it is connected, it will typically disconnect itself because the signal was interrupted. Most people who have had dial-up have been in the middle of downloading something, whether it is a business-related file or a piece of music, and a relative in another part of the house disconnecting you by trying to use the phone.

No matter how many hours you had been downloading that single file, it was all lost the second your family member tried to make a phone call. After that, all you could do was start over from the beginning and hope no one else tried to dial a number.

For those of us who have a broadband internet service, those days are long gone. DSL uses the phone line, but separates the signals so that the phone and internet do not interfere with each other anymore.

Cable internet service is a whole other thing and you can typically subscribe to it through your cable TV provider. DSL is alright and cable internet is faster, but if you live too far outside of town to get either one, satellite internet service is the answer.

It might be a little expensive to install unless you decide to opt for the payment plan by paying a higher monthly fee for a while, but if you require internet service for your business or just for leisure, this is the way for you to go.

DSL service will eventually be run through all phone lines, but this is quite some time away, depending on how far from populated areas you live.

If you have grown tired of borrowing the home phone line to check your email, then you will appreciate the speed and “always on” aspect of broadband Internet. Even if you already have a dedicated line to an Internet Service Provider, a high speed connection will make a dramatic difference in how you use the Internet. Until recently, choices were very limited. However, there are a number of options now and it is worth considering the following before making the leap to the 21st century:

Speed

Even though the slowest broadband service will be faster than your pokey modem, there are different speeds (and of course prices) with broadband service. The minimum target should be in the 512k BPS, which would make the service approximately ten times faster than the best standard modem for downloads. Uploads are faster than modems but still lag well behind on upload (sending files) speed. Make sure that your provider has an upgrade plan when you want to turbo-charge your connection for movies and other bandwidth-hungry media.

Price

Those who say that money is no object have not opened a phone bill recently! The highest speeds (upwards of 3M BPS) are typically reserved for business users, who can afford the steep monthly charges. But most home and small office customers can find a provider with a 1M BPS plan that should only cost two times the price of their former dial-up ISP. This is a tremendous bargain when you consider the time and productivity advantages you will gain.

Commitment

Often the “same as dial-up” prices will only be valid for a few months, or require a lengthy contract commitment to maintain the bargain. You may have to maintain all products, and at least the same level of service. Check the fine print on the offer, and if it sounds too good to be true, well, you know the rest.

Phone

A consideration is whether you want to get rid of your home phone line when you ditch your old ISP. It is typically less expensive, although make sure all the features you liked from traditional phone service are in place. Since digital phone service is now possible, investigate a combined plan that bundles Internet, phone and perhaps even cable or satellite TV service.

Wireless

If you do not already have a wireless router, many providers will lease (or sell) you one to make your broadband connection truly a charm. Not only will you be surfing and downloading at lightning speed, but you will do it without a cable in sight.

Disappearing are the days of busy phone lines and creaky dial-up speeds. Consider these simple points before launching your speed skyward and putting your old modem out to pasture.

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“I call them the ‘Internet parasites’ – constantly multiplying in numbers and infecting whoever and whatever crosses their paths. I am talking about the Internet zombies. Not 1 or 2 in number, there are 10 million zombies out there, sending spam and email based malware everyday!

In their latest exploits, zombies victimized new user groups. They targeted the ISPs to misuse their vast client base to send out spam on the Internet. For the ISPs, this brutality meant huge wastage of precious network resources, reduced network speeds and dissatisfied customers. More importantly, the ISPs faced blacklisting of their IP ranges, which would also block legitimate outbound emails along with the junk.

In the last quarter, phishing attempts increasingly targeted university students and faculty members. Text-based message spam, seemingly coming from IT department, collected their personal information and passwords.

Cyber miscreants were seen targeting the psychological behavior of users through media they trusted the most! In Q2 2008, phishing scams hit the Google Adwords account owners with legitimate-looking subject lines. The email contained genuine-looking Google links which redirected the user to a phishing site hosted on a Chinese domain.

That’s the trend this quarter – Attacks that exploit the user’s psychological behavior and through media that they trusted the most.”

“44,000 pieces of time-wasting, bandwidth eating, server clogging spam a day. That’s 1,338,363 pieces of spam in a month. And a crazy 16,060,365 spam mails in an entire year. That’s one man’s spam in UK – of the highest spam recipient. This tally from ClearMyMail shows the spam problem. It took him 2 hours to wade through the lottery, Nigerian scam and unwelcome organ enlarging solicitations.

What couldn’t I do with those 2 hours. Get my butt on the seat and get the final draft of the article out, answer my 5-year old’s interminable questions all the way to Domino’s, through dinner and back, and more such things that I avoid – all without a tenth of the eye-glazing boredom that deleting spam induces in me. And without the fear of deleting a legitimate mail while suffering from the glaze.

And it happens in organizations too. We did a survey in organizations a while ago. They were deploying firewall and anti-virus by default, but when it came to anti-spam, they weren’t overly concerning themselves with having the best solution around, sometimes none at all. But there’s more to spam than just a load of junk in our inboxes. What we see as a time-waster, is also the carrier of threats, breaching security defenses in networks. Phishing, spyware, viruses, you name it, they arrive with nerve-racking regularity. Even for the trained eye, some of these are deceiving, changing tactics so fast and coming up with novel ways to drive themselves into inboxes that by instinct we click on them before our mental alerts start kicking in. That’s what I did when pdf spam first arrived. Luckily, it had been just another pump and dump scheme.

I hate to give conclusions, sounds like so much thesis, but here I go with this one – that anti-spam is as important as firewall and anti-virus. And not just any anti-spam solution. One that gets to the spam before you do. Which means, it cannot wait for signatures. It cannot rely on content scanning. It must see the pattern of distribution. Look for one that goes beyond content. But first look for one – to add to your firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware arsenal – to begin with.”

Broadband is the name given to high speed Internet connection, which is becoming the preferred way to surf the Web. Dial-Up is quickly becoming a thing of the past, but as more and more people look towards broadband technology to improve their Internet experiences, the question of what service to get pops of often. For that reason, it’s important to know just what your broadband options are, so that you can make an informed decision on how to assimilate high-speed Internet access into your home and your life. There are three major broadband options currently available: Cable, DSL, and Satellite. In addition to these, there are some future broadband options that are soon to emerge, and they’re worth keeping your eye on.

Let’s start by talking about cable, which is used by more people than any of the other broadband options that are currently available. This is because, for the most part, cable is cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the other services that are available. After all, it is much cheaper to hook up a cable to your computer than to rely on expensive satellite networks or any wireless equipment. There are some problems with Cable, though. Since you have to share a bandwidth with your neighbors, if the company you choose fails to keep up the bandwidth in your area, the speed of your Internet is likely to fall.

Earthlink is one of the most popular providers of cable broadband. For only $41.95 a month, you’ll have fast Internet access throughout your home, and Earthlink does not have any set up or equipment fees. You only have to play for the service you receive. Another major cable Broadband competitor is Cablevision. While it has a slightly cheaper monthly rate, you are responsible for paying for the modem, which costs about $129.95. This service claims to be faster than Earthlink, but that all depends on the bandwidth available, as Earthlink tends to have more.

DSL is quickly growing in popularity and is the closest rival to cable connections these days. By choosing a company that offers DSL, you won’t have to share bandwidth with your neighbors. That means that your Internet speed will remain constant. If you are a business owner, DSL companies tend to have more options for you, whereas other services cater more towards the home. Many DSL companies have gone out of business, however, so make sure you find a reputable one that will preferably offer free installation, since installing DSL on your own is difficult.

Earthlink, the same company that offers cable broadband, also offers DSL in over 90 markets nationwide. It costs $49.95 a month, and once again offers no extra fees for setup or equipment. With a decent download and upload speed, it stands up to its competitors in price and quality. Another major DSL competitor is MSN Broadband, which is cheaper per month by ten dollars. However, there is a one-time fee of $99 for activation. A “Gold” plan is also offered that costs the same as Earthlink and offers an even faster connection. The activation fee still applies.

Finally, we reach the third option that’s widely available: Satellite. This doesn’t have nearly as many subscribers as cable or DSL, though it hasn’t been available as long. The great thing about getting a satellite connection is that it is offered everywhere, so if you live in an area that cable or DSL isn’t offered in, you can still have fast Internet access with a satellite provider. Also, if you already have satellite television, you should check with your provider to see if they offer Internet access as well. More often than not, you can get a great offer by purchasing both services from the same company. The satellite option offers excellent service, but it the most expensive option of the major three. Your service can also be affected by the weather, just like your satellite television.

As usual, Earthlink offers satellite broadband service for only $69.95 per month. The hardware to get everything going is very pricey, costing $399. You’re also going to have to pay for installation and a modem. After all these costs are added together, the whole system starts to get pretty expensive. However, if you’re willing to shell out the cash for it, you’ll get some of the fastest speeds available from any broadband option today.

Now that you’ve gotten a taste for the three major broadband options, let’s goes over the emerging options that are slowly becoming available, just so you can get a taste of the future of broadband. The first is power line broadband, which uses electric utility lines to transfer data. This technology is still in the testing phases, but companies in Cincinnati and Manassas, Va are offering broadband services such as this, while North Carolina and Washington, D.C. are testing the technology. This broadband option brings Internet access straight into people’s home through their wall sockets. All you’ll have to do is plug in and start surfing. Some companies can’t get past power transformers, though, and offer the service through a wireless modem.

Many phone companies have started offering their own broadband wireless service only a couple years ago. They’re now starting to become very popular, though they tend to cost more than DSL or cable options. While this may not appeal to homes, people on the go will be the most likely to take advantage of the service.

So there you have it, all the broadband options available to you today. If you’re looking for faster Internet service and quicker downloads, look into getting set up with one of the options discussed here. This is especially true if you’re still dealing with dial-up. Cable and DSL are most certainly the way most people will want to go today, though satellite coverage has an appeal to many people, especially to those households and businesses that operate outside of DSL or cable company’s areas. So choose the option that’s right for you, and start enjoying faster Internet access.