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  2. Troubleshoot a broadband internet connection - AOL Help

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    Check the physical connection - A loose cable or cord can often be the cause of a connection problem. Make sure everything is securely connected to the wall and device. 3. Reboot your modem/router - Sometimes the old "turn it off and on again" approach actually does work! Just wait about five minutes before turning it back on to make sure ...

  3. Packet loss - Wikipedia

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    Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data travelling across a computer network fail to reach their destination. Packet loss is either caused by errors in data transmission, typically across wireless networks, [1] [2] or network congestion. [3]: 36 Packet loss is measured as a percentage of packets lost with respect to packets sent.

  4. Air gap (networking) - Wikipedia

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    An air gapped network (right) with no connection to a nearby internet-connected network (left) An air gap, air wall, air gapping [1] or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network. [2]

  5. Bufferbloat - Wikipedia

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    When the bufferbloat phenomenon is present and the network is under load, even normal web page loads can take many seconds to complete, or simple DNS queries can fail due to timeouts. [10] Actually any TCP connection can timeout and disconnect, and UDP packets can get discarded. Since the continuation of a TCP download stream depends on ...

  6. Troubleshoot a dial-up connection - AOL Help

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    An active internet connection is required to be able to access all the best that America Online® offers. If you're using dial-up internet and can't connect, try the following troubleshooting steps: Check the dial tone - If you DO have one, it's likely the problem has something to do with your computer. If you DON'T, it's likely the problem has ...

  7. NO CARRIER - Wikipedia

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    Three network interface widgets (2 Ethernet and 1 WiFi) showing two network interfaces being up, one being down with no cable plugged in (hence: "no carrier"), underlined in red. NO CARRIER (capitalized) is a word code transmitted from a modem to its attached device (typically a computer ), indicating the modem is not (or no longer) connected ...

  8. Wi-Fi deauthentication attack - Wikipedia

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    Sending the frame from the access point to a station is called a "sanctioned technique to inform a rogue station that they have been disconnected from the network". [1] An attacker can send a deauthentication frame at any time to a wireless access point, with a spoofed address for the victim.

  9. IEEE 802.3 - Wikipedia

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    IEEE 802.3 is a working group and a collection of standards defining the physical layer and data link layer's media access control (MAC) of wired Ethernet.The standards are produced by the working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).