Well hello, I have been looking around this forum for quite a while now (along with several DSL site's) trying to find a means of assessing, and if need be tweaking my 256 kbs ADSL connection, and after using information gained and ping plotter (v2.41), over a 12 hour period I seem to have some interesting results, but I'm not quite sure what to make of them, could I possibly PM one of the administrators attaching the results and any further details required so that any suggestions, comments or tweaks may be posted to help me in my quest?

Many thanks in advance!

P.S. I also think that adding the following information as an "ADMIN" post to your forum would be of help to other future posters, as without doing this I was unable to make this post from behind Norton F/W 2003! (found on another forum that I visit, but URL's changed for here).


Important! Users with Norton Personal Firewall
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If you have your firewall on, you will not be able to post. Here is the solution to fix this.

Windows XP users with "Norton Personal Firewall" software, or similar (adding a trusted site):


Open NIS.

Click Options.

Click Internet Security (or Personal Firewall).

Click Advanced Options.

Click the Web tab.

Click Add Site. A new site/domain box appears.

Enter the url of the site that you want to receive the referrer information and click OK. That site name appears in the left frame of the Advanced Options window.

Click the name of the new site.

Click the Privacy tab.

Check the "Use these rules for..." box.

Change the Referrer from "Block" to "Allow."

Click Apply, and then click OK.

Click OK to close the Options window.


Also If you wish to disable all filtering: Click on custom settings and make sure enable privacy is checked. Then click on the Custom Level tab. Under Confidential settings select medium. Under Cookie Blocking select None:Allow Cookies. Do not place a check mark next to Enable Browser Privacy. Place a check mark next to Enable Secure Connections (https). Click OK and you're all set.

In Norton '03 the steps are slightly diffrent.

1. Open the NPF or NIS main window and click options> Internet Security

2. Move to the 'Web Content' tab

3. Click the 'Add Site' button and type 'www.pingplotter.com' w/o the quotes. Click OK.

4. In the site list to the left click on the new www.pingplotter.com entry.

5. In the 'Information about visited sites' section on the right clear the 'Use Default settings' check box and click the 'permit' radio button.

6. Hit ok and close the main window.

NOTE: You may have to wait a few moments or close and restart the browser for the change to take effect.

Also you must know the Supervisor password if one is set.

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