How to Change Your Windows DNS Settings & Why You May Want to First, let’s discuss what DNS servers are. Don’t worry – we’re not going to get all technical on you. We will define DNS servers as simply as possible. However, you don’t need to know what a DNS server is to use this tip,… Read More »
How to Diagnose and Fix Your Slow Wireless Internet What’s causing your slow Internet speeds? Is it your Internet service provider or your Wi-Fi setup at home? Here’s one way to find out: Using a laptop, smartphone or tablet, open a browser and go to www.fast.com Stand right next to your router and run a… Read More »
An Inexpensive Way to Speed Up Your Wireless Internet You’ll see a lot of tips on how to speed up your Wi-Fi connection, but honestly fiddling around with your router, Windows’ network settings, etc. won’t do much good. Your Wi-Fi speed is determined –for the most part — by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)… and the… Read More »
Cloudflare’s Free 1.1.1.1 DNS Service May Increase Speed and Privacy Cloudflare’s DNS service competes with — most prominently– Cisco’s OpenDNS and Google Public DNS, Cloudflare makes extraordinary claims for its DNS service including a promise of privacy backed up by 3rd-party auditing. That’s impressive. It is not the intent of this article is to get you to take… Read More »
Tips, Tools, and How-tos for Safer Online Communications For years, we’ve been consistent in our approach to helping you stay safe online. We’ve tried to impress upon you that there isn’t any software that will protect you from everything and no software in the world that will protect you from yourself. Security software should be your… Read More »
InfoAve Premium Bonus Questions & Answers: Part 10 Each week we receive more questions than we can answer in the newsletter due to space restrictions. We try to answer every question we receive. Unfortunately, we just don’t have room to put all the questions and answers in our weekly Premium newsletter. So now, each week, we… Read More »