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« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2008, 08:59:23 PM » |
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« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2008, 10:18:33 PM » |
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Can you help out a bit, ANBU? I don't know how to implement your advice to block those sites. Any advice?
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« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2008, 04:38:37 AM » |
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A download accelerator works on the concept of smaller packets.
Tere was a hack for firefox. creating smaller packets made the downloading a bit faster.... or at least take a shorter period of time. The rate was the same, but the way it handled it was faster.
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« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2008, 11:10:21 AM » |
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Can you help out a bit, ANBU? I don't know how to implement your advice to block those sites. Any advice?
I added those sites as a filter in Adblock Plus. |
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« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2008, 01:02:35 PM » |
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How so?
I apologize. I clicked new, and yours was the first, and along with the thread title it looked like you were suggesting them. Oops. |
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« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2008, 01:24:33 PM » |
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I added those sites as a filter in Adblock Plus.
Is it helping? |
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« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2008, 04:12:15 PM » |
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Is it helping?
If it is, it is minor. |
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« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2008, 04:40:00 PM » |
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If it is, it is minor.
I did the same thing and I don't see much of a difference, either. ANBU (and MLG, -crowd-, etc.), would that list work better at the firewall than at the blocker like AdBlockPlus in FireFox? |
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« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2008, 07:49:14 PM » |
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I've never found it to really work on any software-based firewall program that I've ever installed on my pc. The best place to incorporate them is in the router itself, if it gives you that option. If you provide me your router brand and model, I may be able to find the manual online and give you a quick breakdown on how to type them in. If not, a quick synopsis is this, log into the router, there should be a firewall section and it should give an area to type in websites to block.
I've had a couple of routers, both Netgears. My first one was a prosafe model w/ a print server built-in. That had a firewall that extremely effective if not brutal on those sites. My current one, which was a more moderately priced one, has the option but it's not as strong as the prosafe models. I'm probably gonna end up replacing it, and hopefully in the near future, because of the fact that the one I mentioned in a previous post has a usb print server built into it.
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« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2008, 08:06:31 PM » |
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There are people that put those URL's in the HOSTS file and redirect the request locally. The hosts file is the first place that OS looks to figure out where to look for a website, so it looks there finds itself and knows right away that it doesn't have the ad so it moves on. The router is essentially doing the same thing.
Is one better than the other...I can't really say if one works better than the other, but if you mess up your hosts file it could be a real pain in the ass. The other thing is putting it in the router you only have to do it once and it takes care of all of your computers.
As for the FF adblock, I don't know how it works, so I don't know if it will actually speed things up. If your goal is to just not see the ads, then this is prolly the easiest way to handle it.
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« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2008, 08:14:15 PM » |
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Thanks, guys! I may drag out the manual for the router and see if I can put them in there. I've already put it in AdBlockPlus.
Appreciate all the help.
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