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I've only just moved from dial-up to broadband (cable, connection via ethernet), and have a couple of questions:
1. Is there an easy way to cut the connection temporarily (for instance if I want to carry out some tasks as root, I'd rather do this with the PC offline)?
2. I liked having the graphical "view data rate" window provided by the KInternet dial-up tool. Is there an equivalent utility that I can use with broadband?
I've only just moved from dial-up to broadband (cable, connection via ethernet), and have a couple of questions:
1. Is there an easy way to cut the connection temporarily (for instance if I want to carry out some tasks as root, I'd rather do this with the PC offline)?
2. I liked having the graphical "view data rate" window provided by the KInternet dial-up tool. Is there an equivalent utility that I can use with broadband?
Yours,
Rob
For Q1 it's very easy. In a root consol do ifdown ethX X=ethernet port eg 0. To bring the link back up do ifup ethX
For Q2 Its really not that important because this is a digital signal and should remain constant and the data rate should be viewable via the router connection software. Remember a serial modem is analogue and converts audio to digital transmission. I use a system monitor called GKrellm which includes network monitoring.
Thanks for the answers. Actually, I found that I could monitor network activity with the KDE System Guard. I'd already found it and used it a little, but I hadn't realised that I could add and remove the default sensors.
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