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There was also Tiny Firewall which got bought by Computer Associates around 2005. Probably the most complicated or fine grain control for me at that time in Win

• distances 6mo ago
  This is what I used! At some point I managed to block DHCP lease renewals on my computer, and Internet would always stop working after a given timespan. Took a good while to figure out I caused the problem myself.
  • vasvir 6mo ago
    and that's how you learn... Shooting yourself in the foot really helps to built intuition!
    • Zobat 6mo ago
      Sometimes called "high instructional value".
    • BobaFloutist 6mo ago
      It is probably easier these days when you have a phone to fall back on for if you break the internet on your computer. Playing with your router is still a pain though, especially if you don't have a device with an Ethernet port. You learn all sorts of fun things like "If you change your router's IP address you get logged out of its management at the old IP address" and "Oh, that's what subnet mask means, weird."
      • distances 6mo ago
        > It is probably easier these days when you have a phone to fall back on Most definitely. The old lessons were hard learned, and they stayed with you. Going through everything, trying all the combinations, and reading obscure materials for any hints. I don't want to glorify the old hard way of spending perhaps days on problems that ended up being trivial, but it's obviously different now when one can get all the answers and helpful scripts directly from LLMs. Much less is retained.