Tanner has paid extra to his cable company for the highest speed of Internet connectivity, but browsing speeds seem slow. How can he determine what speed he is actually getting?   2. Brandon lives out in the country, where no cable or DSL is available. He is currently on dial-up; what type of service might he consider instead?   3. Andrew is considering a fiber optic ADSL2+ Internet service, but he lives more than 18,000 feet from the central office. Will he be limited to 1.5 Mbps service? Why or why not?   4. Cindy wants to use an FTP program that she has just installed, but it doesn’t find an Internet connection. All her other applications find the Internet just fine. What should she check?   5. Mary recently enabled the firewall feature on her home router. When her son Tom comes home from school and tries to play his favorite online game, it tells him that it can’t get an Internet connection. Can Tom solve this problem by adjusting the Windows Firewall settings? Why or why not?

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  1. Tanner has paid extra to his cable company for the highest speed of Internet connectivity, but browsing speeds seem slow. How can he determine what speed he is actually getting?

 

2. Brandon lives out in the country, where no cable or DSL is available. He is currently on dial-up; what type of service might he consider instead?

 

3. Andrew is considering a fiber optic ADSL2+ Internet service, but he lives more than 18,000 feet from the central office. Will he be limited to 1.5 Mbps service? Why or why not?

 

4. Cindy wants to use an FTP program that she has just installed, but it doesn’t find an Internet connection. All her other applications find the Internet just fine. What should she check?

 

5. Mary recently enabled the firewall feature on her home router. When her son Tom comes home from school and tries to play his favorite online game, it tells him that it can’t get an Internet connection. Can Tom solve this problem by adjusting the Windows Firewall settings? Why or why not?

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