Internet cafes are coming with increased and improved services these days. That is the reason more people are getting interested in business and more users like to go to Internet cafes and more issues are faced regarding security and management of multiple computers.

A very important concern regarding management is the Bandwidth management. However, it is not a question any more. Bandwidth management software has solved the issue now.

The software assists you to manage the download and upload speed for each computer in your set of arrangements. Computers can be restricted to a specified Bandwidth, time, and allocation per session, access limitations and security options.

Bandwidth management software is highly suitable for Internet cafes and gaming consoles. It automatically restricts the Internet traffic when the client logs out. It enables you to customize download and upload speeds for each computer accordingly and independently.

The software presents a user friendly interface which serves you to manage the whole network without any effort. All the control options are given on the screen to present user friendly software.

First and most important feature of the software is its compatibility with Windows. You do not need to install any expensive hardware for this software. It works very well on your standards PCs. You just need to put two network cards to setup Bandwidth manager.

You do not even need to install the software on client computers. Just run it on the administrator and control a whole network from a single computer.

The software enables you to control the Bandwidth on each computer. Bandwidth limit is the rate and speed of Internet traffic on each computer. It is set in Kb/s, for each user account independently. The Bandwidth management software allows you to set high Bandwidth limit for some computers while low limit for others. Independent management of computers ensures that no user can disrupt other’s activities. Similarly, it enables you to configure Bandwidth quota for every user. Bandwidth quota is the total amount of Internet traffic bought by a user. This quota is set in Mbytes/sec. It just ensures that no user can use extra time than his payment. This option also configures time allowed to the user. Accounts can be temporarily activated or disabled also. It also sets activity timeout for every computer. Computer will be automatically locked and logged off if the quota is expired or the prepaid account runs out. It also enables you to allow certain accounts or computers to access Internet without any restriction.

The software also gives you detailed reports regarding each user account within the network of your Internet cafe. Whatever activities are being performed by all the users, are kept a record of. It stores all the activities. The user login and logout time, log in attempts made, pages visited etc. all are kept in log reports.

It gives the administrator control by generating a login and password for it. Only the administrator can authorize the client computers to access Internet.



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Hi….if you are a person like me, who uses the internet a lot, try to experiment with different software’s, download lots of freeware, shareware programs from the internet and use them….browse un-secure sites to find the under ground stuff, then this blog is definitely for you…

Do you know how much Internet Bandwidth you are using? You need to use a online Bandwidth Test or Bandwidth Meter Software. To test the Bandwidth Speed online use CNET Bandwidth Test, you can visit the URL http://reviews.cnet.com/Bandwidth_meter/7004-7254_7-0.html?tag=pm and fill the details and hit the Go button. Since the Server is hosted in US you may not get 100% accurate results, but you get a result which you can count on.

To use a Bandwidth Meter Software you can install software called DU Meter which can be downloaded from www.download.com, it would show you the actual utilization of your internet in real time.

I have a 512 Kbps Unlimited Airtel Broadband Connection, and I leave it on 24/7. I sometimes see that 120 Kbps bandwidth is being used without even one single browser open or any applications using internet.

Which program is using this bandwidth? Would be a very tough question to answer…and it’s very hard to get out of this problem…

There are 4 things which need to be fixed to fix this issue….

Install an Antivirus, remember how good the antivirus program is it needs the latest definition files to function effectively, update it and run a complete scan, if you don’t have access to internet at that time due to Virus, Spyware and Ad-ware killing your bandwidth you can get the antivirus signature update from computer magazine CD/DVD’s like CHIP, DIGIT etc. If you don’t have a licensed copy of Antivirus, AVG is a good free one to choose….

Next you need to install a Spyware and Ad-ware removal tool. Go to www.download.com and install Ad-ware and Spybot Search and Destroy. Both are free tools but they don’t offer real time protection. You need to run them once in a while to remove Ad-ware and Spyware respectively. Remember you also need to update the definitions for effective removal.

Then run windows update and make sure that all critical updates are installed. If you have a pirated copy of Win XP and Windows Update wont work you can try Auto Patcher http://www.autopatcher.com which can be downloaded through torrents or you can find it on CHIP and Digit Magazine CD’s.

If all these 4 are updated and your system goes through the scan without catching anything then you can rest assure that your system is free from Virus, Ad-ware and Spyware. And most importantly your system Operation System is upto date and the effect of Virus and Spyware would be not so much even if affected.

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Every business needs bandwidth solutions of some sort. For many businesses that require large amounts of bandwidth finding just the right solution….from a cost and application standpoint….can be a confusing process. It doesn’t have to be if you understand what to base your decision on.

Like anything in information technology, it really depends on how you will utilize this infrastructure. It certainly doesn’t make sense to provision high capacity transport links if you will use them for a small fraction of the day or the traffic doesn’t warrant it.

I think one of the hardest things about this arena is that many times the people requesting the bandwidth are confused about what bandwidth really is. There’s a misnomer that bandwidth automatically equals speed. “Well my application is slow, I need more bandwidth”. Many times if a study is done on exactly what your needs are, it turns out to be a very different story from the initial conversation.

With a plethora of technologies out there for WAN and Metro services, wired or wireless customers can choose to subscribe to always on, dedicated access methods or go for a most cost effective model with somewhat “shared” topologies like Multi-Protocol Label Switching. The idea here is that you have options and each solution can satisfy any number of requirements. There’s never been a better time in the industry for choices.

The best option is the cheapest one that works. Dark Fiber and Metro Ethernet, if an option, should usually be looked at first to establish a price for negotiating. I think you should focus on negotiating techniques that work to bring these bandwidths within affordable reach.

No matter how much bandwidth you are using, you will get a better deal for it at a major Network Access Point (NAP) where you have more bidders for your business, and from which you can easily shift carriers, set up failovers and redundancy, etc.. Every high end user needs their own boxes to shape traffic at the NAP, and they need them in two different racks connected to two different carriers. Accept the hit of that and you’ll quickly see that the ten to thirty thousand dollars a typical urban company requires to get two boxes into a NAP (admittedly on a single dark fiber route) pays for itself in bandwidth charges in pretty much a single year. Even just to PLAN to do it and show your spreadsheet to your carrier, a project that might cost five grand to do right, will result in more than that much per year off your bill.

Think of it like any other high end purchase. You demonstrate that you’re not a pushover, that you have options, that you understand the options and how to increase the number of options, and you bargain based on the bottom line of the cheapest solution you can find. When they tell you it will “cost too much to have your own boxes and dark fiber to the NAP”, you snap back the lowest number you can justify, call it “insurance”, and rule it out as a cost factor. When they tell you “we can monitor boxes far better than you can”, leverage that into quality of service guarantees in the contract with real dollar penalties for failures or slowdowns. When they tell you “our facility is state of the art”, GO THERE and count up the number of non-bulletproof windows and visible insecure perches that someone can shoot the servers from, grab the corded phone and walk over to the rack, pulling it right out of the wall and looking astonished: “how am I supposed to give someone instructions over the phone? They can’t even walk to the rack! You expect them to scribble it down while cradling the phone in their neck and then go over to the box and do what I said?!?!?!?”

Basically, you must point out every deficiency in their facility or service and refuse to acknowledge that your own home-built solution would have any inadequacies, or that the competitors all have the same problems. In a high end negotiation, you must have NO mercy.

By the way, once you’ve got a contract with your carrier, you must be very nice to them, in total contrast to the way you leveraged like mad in the first negotiation. Don’t nickel-and-dime them after you’ve agreed on terms, don’t let your bandwidth payments get late. These people hold your crown jewels. As mean as you are to the salespeople, be that nice to the geeks.

Technologically, you should consider Storage Area Networks (SAN) if you have multiple locations in the same city, and the use of SAN links over IP which is increasingly common. Basically, the entire city becomes a vast RAID hard drive. You should also understand some of the good business reasons to adopt very high bandwidth such as reducing the number of over-the-Internet transactions which slow things down and may compromise security in favour of internal intranet transactions. Also, having as few layers of software as possible between the hard drive and the user is a major plus.

Also consider the price difference between Sonet equipment versus Ethernet. These days layer-3 ethernet switches are more and more capable for usage as a router. While Sonet traditionally is quite expensive vs Ethernet (especialy for the hardware)…. dark fiber and ethernet solutions from carriers are getting broad industry support. Although I do favor Sonet for its better debuging capablities, error counters, alarms etc. Ethernet in wide area environments seems to do the jobs as well. Ethernet would save you the need to buy a decent router able to terminate Sonet and give you the choice to go with a decent layer-3 switch. Another option is 10GigE WAN PHY…..it still has all the advantages of Sonet combined with Ethernet, gives you the ability to use cheaper layer-3 switches, looks for the carrier as a normal Sonet service and works over long distances.

To look at the tradeoffs, you’ll have to start by finding out what is available at your end user location. Within North America, the alternatives include ATM OC-3/12/48, SONET (and Next Generation SONET) probably more likely OC-12/48/192, and Metro Ethernet at 100 Mbps (a little slower than OC-3), 1 Gbps (about OC-24) and 10 Gbps (OC-192). Things that aren’t available need not be considered.

What are the availability requirements? If you are thinking of SONET, find out if it will come to your premises as a star or ring or dual ring. Metro Ethernet might be faster but not necessarily physically diverse. Sometimes, you can be creative and use a short free-space link to get access to a physically diverse medium.

For more background and insights I suggest reading “WAN Survival Guide” and “Building Service Provider Networks” by Howard Berkowitz. Both are excellent resources.

I have worked with many customers to design infrastructure solutions that incorporate high-end DWDM or CWDM connections between datacenters. Now, this is a business solution and the common user would never dream of having a connection such as this, available to them. Other customers that I work with will incorporate leased lined anywhere from a T1 to OC3. Those connections are very much sized for purpose with a percentage of growth factored in.

The practice that I go through is to evaluate need. What are you trying to accomplish? Is it transactional based or are you replicating data for DR? Are you simply connecting two or more remote offices for the purpose of a Citrix solution? Each of these questions will result in different answers when all is said and done.

Remeber that redundancy is ALWAYS a factor in business oriented solutions. Especially as it pertains to data replication and DR/HA failover to “hot” datacenters. We are starting to see more and more of this type of configuration. I have a few customers that are fortunate enough to have multi-ring DWDM infrastructures to make their valuable data available in the unfortunate event of a disaster.

As corny as it sounds, I have to say that your ultimate solution depends on the intended usage of that bandwidth. I would also say that there really is no generalized “ideal” bandwidth solution. It all comes down to intent and budget. With today’s technology in WAN (TCP/IP/FC/FCIP/IFCP) acceleration (Juniper, Riverbed, Cisco), you can transfer vast amounts of data in a smaller pipe. It really is cool technology but still requires cost justification to implement.

Whatever you decide….do your homework….be prepared….negotiate….then install and enjoy.