January 12th, 2010 Category: General, VMWareI often experienced the problem that a click on the network neighborhood in Windows needs very long. This may have several reasons. I recognized that in my case it is related with the VMWare Workstation installation.
VMWare Workstation installs two virtual network adapters, one is used for host-only networking and the other for NAT networking. This virtual adapters may cause the network neighborhood to become very slow.
To come around this annoying slow network neighborhood I know two possibilities:
- If you only use bridged networking for your virtual machines
=> disable both network adapters in the control panel - If you use host-only or NAT for your virtual machines
=>disable the “Client for Microsoft Networks” and “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” protocols in the properties of the two virtual network adapters
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Written on January 12, 2010 | Posted in
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VMWare April 25th, 2009 Category: iPhone 
Speed Test is a native iPhone application without advertising and allows you to measure the network speed of your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application come from speedtest.net which is a well known site for measuring your speed of your network connection.
Download Link
Written on April 25, 2009 | Posted in
iPhone April 25th, 2009 Category: iPhone 
There are not so many network tools for admins available on the iPhone but a few are available like the “Network Utility“. It provides some terminal-like network tools on your iPhone. The standard edition is free and comes with some advertisements whereas the pro version does not contain any advertisement.
It comes with the main features:
- Ping (ICMP Echo)
- TCP/IP Port scan
- GeoIP Lookup
- Geotargeting with Google Maps
- Whois Query
- IP Address Information
Download Links
Written on April 25, 2009 | Posted in
iPhone April 25th, 2009 Category: iPhone 
Another nice and free network tool for administrators: ChkWebSpeed. It measures the download speed of any website via WiFi or Cellular network. You can add your own websites and check the min, max & avg download speed over 10 iterations.
So you can easily compare several the speed of several the web sites to see if the site is slow or your current network connection.
Written on April 25, 2009 | Posted in
iPhone April 13th, 2009 Category: iPhoneAnother nice free admin tool “Network Ping Lite” with useful features:
- Ping a single IP address
- Ping a subnet to get an overview
- Traceroute to determine the route taken by packets
- Telnet console for simple access to a router or Unix server
Get it from here:
Download link iTunes Store.
Written on April 13, 2009 | Posted in
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