<p>There are plenty of alternatives to Firefox such as Opera, Maxathon, Lynx, and Safari. However, Firefox Beta 2 stands above all.</p>
<p>Opera rocks!!!</p>
<p>Next thing you know someone here is going to say Netscape is the best browser ever. Go on say it. You know you want to.</p>
<p>i like firefox, but i think IE7 is much improved over IE6. :)</p>
<p>oh, and Netscape definitely is the best browser ever. :D ;)</p>
<p>yeah ie 7 is pretty decent... with the tabbed browsing and stuff, the only thing it doesn't have is a download manager or else it is just as good as firefox....</p>
<p>i believe your computer will have a static IP whenever its connected to the ResNet internet lines after you register with ResNet</p>
<p>No you have a dynamic IP - it just usually doesn't change :)
When you unplug your computer from the network and then plug it back in later, your computer tells the network what IP address it had before and if that IP address is still available (which it usually is), it will reassign that IP to your computer. I had mine change once or twice during the year</p>
<p>im in the ucla dorms, Is there any safe way to download files? Is azureus safe? I heard that its uploading that gets you caught not downloading. how about somebody sending me a file through AIM? a direct file transfer from one to another??</p>
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<p>True - you can't be prosecuted for downloading a file because the entity catching you would have to be the supplier of the illicit material, and thats entrapment. So you have to be uploading - however, bittorrent basically forces you to share (i.e. upload) at the same time you are downloading a file.</p>
<p>direct file transfers, such as those via a private FTP or AIM are safe, since someone needs a warrant to track such activity.</p>
<p>how do you connect to the ChemWLAN wireless network? i tried using my BOL user/pass, but it didn't work.</p>
<p>i know that's the department wireless, not the university wireless...so maybe you need to be part of the department to be able to access?</p>
<p>what's the fastest down/up speeds one can expect from the dorm ethernet lines and UCLAWLAN?</p>
<p>Dorm lines feel hella slow. Speed tests show them at around 5000-6600ish. So at most like 800ish, but I have yet to reach that (I havent downloaded much). The highest upload I've seen is 300kb.</p>
<p>Are you smoking something? The dorm (wired) internet is unbelievably fast. I ran the CNET bandwidth test every so often when i was in the dorms, and I was constantly getting speeds of between 30000 and 40000 Kbps (>T3). Downloading would have pretty amazing speeds too.</p>
<p>I agree with Icarus...
I've been getting >T1 results on the CNet Bandwidth Test when I lived in Rieber Hall. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>what?</p>
<p>i'm also using the CNET Bandwidth test.</p>
<p>i'm getting really varied results, depending on time of day. the highest i've seen is around 800 kilobits/sec down!</p>
<p>i'm sure my TCP/IP settings are correct.</p>
<p>You guys are running the wrong tests. Try this:
<a href="http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest%5B/url%5D">www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest</a></p>
<p>that's giving me a 400 kilobit/sec downspeed rating. lol</p>
<p>im not running anything else either.</p>
<p>400 is average for so many people on one grid (T3 connection)</p>
<p>Lol, I'm not smokin anything. I'm just testing various sites and the highest I have gotten so far is 5000-6600ish. </p>
<p><a href="http://project-alt.com/upload/files/1/speed.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://project-alt.com/upload/files/1/speed.jpg</a>
<a href="http://project-alt.com/upload/files/1/speed2.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://project-alt.com/upload/files/1/speed2.jpg</a></p>
<p>Maybe my computer settings are wrong, but my roomates feel the slow webpage loading. Downloads are nowhere near T3 though.</p>
<p>I'm just comparing it to the net I used to have to home. Webpages didn't load this slow at home. I'm kind of just going off a "feel" and speed test sites because I haven't really downloaded anything from a good site using UCLA net.</p>