[gnome-user-docs] Write material for two net- stubs



commit cf04bc85d2278ff355d892de1e7135eb29809253
Author: Phil Bull <philbull gmail com>
Date:   Mon Mar 28 22:39:50 2011 +0100

    Write material for two net- stubs

 gnome-help/C/net-proxy.page |   27 ++++++-------------
 gnome-help/C/net-slow.page  |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gnome-help/C/net-proxy.page b/gnome-help/C/net-proxy.page
index 4e596bd..ea39217 100644
--- a/gnome-help/C/net-proxy.page
+++ b/gnome-help/C/net-proxy.page
@@ -1,33 +1,24 @@
 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
-      type="topic" style="tip"
+      type="topic"
       id="net-proxy">
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="net"/>
-    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-20" status="stub"/>
+    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-29" status="review"/>
 
     <credit type="author">
-      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
-      <email>jwcampbell gmail com</email>
-      <years>2011</years>
+      <name>Phil Bull</name>
+      <email>philbull gmail com</email>
     </credit>
 
-    <desc>XXXXX</desc>
+    <desc>A proxy filters websites that you look at, usually for control or security purposes.</desc>
   </info>
 
-  <title>What is a proxy?</title>
+<title>What is a proxy?</title>
 
-  <comment>
-    <cite date="2011-03-20" href="mailto:jwcampbell gmail com">Jim Campbell</cite>
-    <p>This assumes the reader knows how to.... By the end of this page,
-    the reader will be able to....</p>
-  </comment>
+<p>A <em>web proxy</em> filters websites that you look at. They are commonly used in businesses and at public wireless hotspots to control what websites you can look at, prevent you from accessing the internet without logging-in, or to do security checks on websites.</p>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
+<p>When you go to a website, the text and images on that website pass through the proxy first before reaching your computer. The proxy will scan the contents of the website and will decide whether to display it or whether to show you a different page, for example.</p>
 
-  <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
-  </steps>
+<p>An example of where proxies are commonly used is in universities. When a student connects to the university's wireless network and tries to visit a website, the proxy will instead redirect them to a log-in page. They will then log-in to the network and can go to the page they were trying to look at. Someone who is not a student will get the same log-in page but will not have log-in details, so will be unable to browse the web. This stops people who are not authorized from using the connection.</p>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/gnome-help/C/net-slow.page b/gnome-help/C/net-slow.page
index a7a4e31..6fc7092 100644
--- a/gnome-help/C/net-slow.page
+++ b/gnome-help/C/net-slow.page
@@ -3,31 +3,52 @@
       id="net-slow">
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="net#problems"/>
-    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-20" status="stub"/>
+    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-29" status="review"/>
 
-    <credit type="author copyright">
-      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
-      <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
-      <years>2011</years>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Phil Bull</name>
+      <email>philbull gmail com</email>
     </credit>
 
-    <desc></desc>
+    <desc>Other things might be downloading, you could have a poor connection, or it could be the time of day.</desc>
   </info>
 
-  <title>The Internet is slow</title>
+<title>The internet seems slow</title>
 
-  <comment>
-    <cite date="2011-03-20" href="mailto:shaunm gnome org">Shaun McCance</cite>
-    <p>This assumes the reader knows how to.... By the end of this page,
-    the reader will be able to....</p>
-  </comment>
+<p>If you are using the internet and it seems slow, there are a number of things could be causing the slow down.</p>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
-
-  <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
-  </steps>
+<p>A couple of quick fixes to try are closing your web browser and then re-opening it, and disconnecting from the internet and then reconnecting again. (Doing this resets a lot of things that might be causing the internet to run slowly.)</p>
 
+<list>
+ <item>
+  <p>Busy time of day</p>
+  <p>Internet service providers commonly set-up internet connections so that they are shared between several households. Even though you connect separately, through your own phone line or cable connection, the connection to the rest of the internet at the telephone exchange might actually be shared. If this is the case and lots of your neighbors are using the internet at the same time as you, you might notice a slow-down. You're most likely to experience this at times when your neighbors are probably on the internet (in the evenings, for example).</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+ <item>
+  <p>Downloading lots of things at once</p>
+  <p>If you or someone else using your internet connection are downloading several files at once, or watching videos, the internet connection might not be fast enough to keep up with the demand. In this case, it will feel slower.</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+ <item>
+  <p>Unreliable connection</p>
+  <p>Some internet connections are just unreliable, especially temporary ones or those in high demand areas. If you are in a busy coffee shop or a conference center, the internet connection might be too busy or simply unreliable.</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+ <item>
+  <p>Low wireless connection signal</p>
+  <p>If you're connected to the internet by wireless (wifi), check the network icon on the top bar to see if you have good wireless signal. If not, the internet may seem slow because you don't have a very strong signal.</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+ <item>
+  <p>Using a slower mobile internet connection</p>
+  <p>If you have a mobile internet connection and notice that it is going slowly, you may have moved into an area where signal reception is poor. When this happens, the internet connection will automatically switch from a fast "mobile broadband" connection like 3G to a more reliable, but slower, connection like GPRS.</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+ <item>
+  <p>Web browser has a problem</p>
+  <p>Sometimes web browsers encounter a problem which makes them run slow. This could be for any number of reasons - you could have visited a website which the browser struggled to load, or you might have had the browser open for a long time, for example. Try closing all of the browser's windows and then opening the browser again to see if this makes a difference.</p>
+ </item>
+ 
+</list>
 </page>



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