I stumbled across how to increase your bandwidth in windows tonight and thought it was pretty cool and it actually seems to work. I don’t know if it has any negative repercussions but it does seem to increase my bandwidth in windows. Give it a shot!
I had AT&T Uverse installed this weekend. So far it’s all right. The first issue I had was with my VPN router which I use to connect to my office being the DMZ behind the UVerse gateway. Everything appeared to work at first but then I noticed my my router was renewing its IP address every 5 minutes, and every time it would do this I would get disconnected for a second. I could not find a setting or a cause for this so I called ATT. I quickly got a hold of their tech support and was quickly sent to level 2 support (I don’t think the level 1 person had any clue). Once there, the representative logged into my gateway and set a setting he said was called allow router behind router or something like that and now everything is working fine. I’m kind of bummed that setting wasn’t set correctly first off and that I do not have access to it. Anyway though, it is working now so I am happy.
I learned something interesting today. Mozilla Firefox does not support client-side VBScript, which is a pretty big problem for my company because we program everything in VB and use VBScript on the web. We noticed this because we were re-working our pricing on EIOBoard In Out Board and I was running through testing and all things that were supposed to happen when you click on a checkbox or radio button were not. I then hopped over to Firefox’s web site and noticed that they don’t support VBScript because they say VBScript is not secure. Which makes sense I guess. I then checked out Safari and that also doesn’t support VBScript. To make a long story short if you’re into programming things for the web do not use client-side VBScript, use Javascript to make sure it works on everyone’s web browsers.
At a customer of ours we have been having deadlock/locking/blocking problems just about everyday. The weird part is it is only occurring on one database and we have multiple databases on the same server, two of them are very similar. Us, not knowing how to fix the issue, we logged a call with Microsoft. One thing they mentioned was that we do not perform proper maintenance on our databases and the locking could be caused by fragmentation. This is what they told us to run at a minimum once a week. It seemed to help our database run better but the locking issue was not solved.
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable “DBCC DBREINDEX (’?')”
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable ‘Update Statistics ? With FullScan’