It’s a prompt for a potential Security issue, and I love that IE cares about security of my machine and data on it. But I really don’t like this message popping up all the time.

So I figured out a way to disable it

1. Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security

2. Select the ‘Security’ tab

3. Click the ‘Custom Level’ button

4. In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change “Display mixed content” to ‘Enable’

I know that this makes my machine potentially vulnerable, but then, you know, I am a risk taker….

Thanks to my friend who helped with this setting.

I have my internet wireless router kept 2 rooms away from my usual working location at home here in Redmond, WA. I decided to run speedtest on my internet connectivity at home and I am surprised.

You are reading it right, these are real internet numbers and not because of some error.

My another machine which is connected over wire, shows much better numbers

Then I asked Vishwa who lives in Pune, India to run the same test on his connection and below is what he found. Ironically, he was getting this poor internet speed at Pune IT park.

Update: A friend of mine told me that, most of the internet service providers in USA do a trick so that when someone performs a speed test like i did using the site, numbers are high! Whenever you open a site, first few incoming/outgoing bytes from a new site will be marked for faster delivery and then packet speed for the later goes down slowly.  This would make most of the speed test results inaccurate which are based on the first few byte test.

Though it seems like a valid possible reason, there is no data available to support or against it.

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