Can i has a cookie??
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no you may not have a cookie.mad_mick said:
you sound spiritually bereft, you poor poor cookie inquiring (probably purely humorous original poster). I suggest immediate divine intervention.
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/
"Render thy queries unto Google and they shall be answered the prophet of the internet spoke unto the common people, and there was rejoicing and much eating of pie."
Book of google 1:1
Basically a cookie is used by a website (like the escapist) to store information on your computer. This is typically user preferences (like what font/background you have selected, which pages you've been on, and what times). It's stored on your computer rather than theirs, and is generally just a load of text set out in a special way, although I think newer browsers are encrypting/scrambling them, but that's not really important.
Sometimes cookies can be a bit malicious in how they track you though, and it's always a good idea to clear them once in a while, as they can slow browsers down, although this is less of a problem these days.
Sometimes cookies can be a bit malicious in how they track you though, and it's always a good idea to clear them once in a while, as they can slow browsers down, although this is less of a problem these days.
i should had added more detail to my query. My internet connection is very slow when connected to my router, by fine when just running normally through the modem, i pondered this on yahoo answers and someone said (and i quote) ''check your cookie levels, they might need clearing or possibly a reboot as its properly affecting the ability to send information'' so, in a bewildered state, turned to the lovely escapist community, thank you for your help kind sir, or, um, madam?
Just to clear it up, you have a modem and a router. All on the same Internet connection. I'm assuming you connect the same device with a cable to each, or maybe wireless to one, cable to the other. Am I correct in that? And then you get faster speed when using the modem than when using the router.mad_mick said:
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but routers have nothing to do with cookies. They would just distribute the same network access across devices. More or less. The key thing is, they don't handle cookies - your browser does. Normally, you wouldn't notice any change in performance due to cookies. And I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be affected by hardware other than your own PC. By the way, I've never had too much trust for Yahoo Answers.
So, the issue here seems to be the router itself, which is reasonable assumption, given that the router is responsible for your connection. First of all, I'd suggest running SpeedTest [http://www.speedtest.net/] and PingTest [http://www.pingtest.net/] when connected to the router and the modem. See if the results differ connecting through the different devices.
If your router is wireless, see if anybody else isn't using your connection. Also, if possible, check if other devices connecting through the wireless are having problems. It could just be your wireless card.
Finally, you can look through the router's settings (you should have some way of accessing them) and see if anything looks weird there. You might reset the settings to the defaults, if it somehow got misconfigured but you're not sure what to change. Just mind the usual problems with resetting to defaults, namely all custom configurations would be lost. I don't know if you or anybody else did anything with he router.