What the heck is port forwarding?

What a great question! Port forwarding is the redirection of computer signals down electronic pathways in your computer.

Why would anyone want to mess with port forwarding?

Your Internet signal enters your computer via the network cable or the wireless adaptor. Within the cable/adaptor are 65,536 pathways to direct the stream of Internet signal or “transfer packets.” Each one of these pathways is a port. To travel through these ports, each transfer packet is required to do three things.

There are few surprises that are worse than finding out that the game you just downloaded for the kids has a virus in it. Now you’re faced with a problem that should not have happened in the first place.

The first rule of downloading

The first rule to safe downloading is to watch out for the sites you go to: the old saw about ‘if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ applies in the computer world as well. If you can’t believe your good luck in finding the latest album you have been wanting for free, the best bet is to past it up! If you have the good fortune to find the latest, hottest game, perhaps you had best stop and think a minute.

If you use Mozilla Firefox as your preferred web browser you may have encountered some problems when using it, especially if you have a Windows operating system. One common problem that many Firefox users seem to complain about is the slow download speed, and the fix to this problem is usually much simpler than it may first appear.

Today we all want faster a computer, faster browsers, and faster downloads. This is the age of instant information after all. While there is no fix that will make your computer respond instantly, at least not yet, there are a few things you can do to make Internet Explorer run a bit faster and download pages quicker than before.