How to Use Quality of Service (QoS) to Get Faster Internet When You Really Need It

Did You Know? The phrase “like water off a duck’s back” is an appropriate one: not only does water roll off a duck’s back, but duck feathers are so water resistant that even when diving underwater, their downy underlayer of feathers stays completely dry. Geek Trivia Which Of These Natural Disasters Has The Potential To Change The Length Of The Day? Volcanic Eruptions → Tsunamis → Hurricanes → Earthquakes → Advertisement Download The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Popular Services (a $5 value) FREE for a limited time This eBook is about the most important and relevant keyboard shortcuts for skyrocketing your productivity. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Scan Business Cards into Your iPhone’s Contact List How to Enable Night Shift On Your iPhone for Easy Nighttime Reading How to Use Quality of Service (QoS) to Get Faster Internet When You Really Need It What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Networks in Windows? How to Skip the Trash and Instantly Delete Files in OS X How to Restrict Access to Your PlayStation 4 with a Passcode How to Use Periods in Dates in Excel How to Register to Vote Online Geek Comic Today's Tech Term MVP MVP (short for Minimum Viable Product) refers to a development technique where new products or websites have been developed just enough to have the core features and nothing more so that they are ready for deployment and/or to satisfy early adopters. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Here's the Original Pitch for 'Diablo,' Coffee Stains, Clip Art, and All Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo is one of the most highly regarded games of all time--here's the original proposal. [Motherboard] Apple's small flagship phone is a much-needed course correction Opinion: Big flagships are great, but we need other kinds of high-end phones. [ArsTechnica] Remote, Controlled:How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV Vizio is now shipping TVs that reflect how we're watching TV: with a tablet remote that takes the place of the phones we're all using to control our streaming video anyway. [The Verge] Nintendo's first smartphone game racks up 1 million users Launched in Japan ahead of international release, Nintendo's first mobile game racks up exactly the kind of downloads you'd expect from a Nintendo product (and probably makes both you and Nintendo wonder why they didn't start sooner). [Engadget] Kill the Password: A String of Characters Won't Protect You "The age of the password is over. We just haven't realized it yet." [Wired] How to Scan Business Cards into Your iPhone’s Contact List If you're a salesperson, a marketing specialist, or anyone else who collects a lot of business cards, you’d probably like a better way to store all those cards. Well, it's time to go paperless and use your iPhone to turn those cards into contacts. Read This Article → How to Enable Night Shift On Your iPhone for Easy Nighttime Reading Bright blue-white light blasting in your face at night isn’t so great for your sleep or general health, but don’t worry: iOS now supports color shifting so you can warm up the light of your iPhone for easy nighttime reading. Read This Article → How to Use Quality of Service (QoS) to Get Faster Internet When You Really Need It Not all Internet traffic is equal. Streaming HD video or having a stutter-free Skype call is probably more important to you than downloading a big file. The Quality of Service feature on your router lets you prioritize the things you care about, so they happen faster than the things you don’t. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Networks in Windows? Windows lets you set each network you connect to as either a “Private” or “Public” network. When you connect to a network the first time, Windows 10 asks if you want your computer to be discoverable or not by other computers. Read This Article → How to Skip the Trash and Instantly Delete Files in OS X In Windows, you can turn the Recycle Bin into a trash dump by holding the “Shift” key to permanently delete a file. Mac users haven’t been so lucky, until the release of OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Read This Article → How to Restrict Access to Your PlayStation 4 with a Passcode Anyone with physical access to your PlayStation 4 can just grab the controller, turn it on, and start playing–at least by default. You can restrict access to your PlayStation 4 so people can’t  play your games, mess with your save files, and make online purchases without your permission. Read This Article → How to Use Periods in Dates in Excel By default, short dates in Excel are formatted using slashes (3/14/2016). If you use a lot of dates in your worksheets, and you prefer to put periods in your dates (3.14.2016), you can easily change the format. Read This Article → How to Register to Vote Online While the ability to actually vote online is still just a dream, most states in the U.S. do at least offer you the ability to register online. Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of where (and how) to get it done. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Popular Services (a $5 value) FREE for a limited time This eBook is about the most important and relevant keyboard shortcuts for skyrocketing your productivity. Click here to download