Many years ago, the internet was not always active on the computer and had to be activated manually by making a call on the modem. Luckily today it is no longer necessary to do this and you can keep your PC connected to the internet all the time, without ever disconnecting it.
If, however, you have the desire or the need to activate and deactivate the internet during the day, perhaps to avoid distractions as much as possible or not to consume bandwidth, there is a small tool that allows you to turn the connection on and off, with a click. internet on Windows PC, as you would on a mobile phone.
The tool is InternetOff, already mentioned in the past in the guide on how to disable the network card and disconnect from the internet with a click, which has recently been updated with the support of the planning utility .
InternetOff allows you to quickly activate or deactivate your internet connection.
The new version also allows you to use a planning tool to decide how much to turn off the internet connection automatically and how much to reactivate it, for the various days of the week .
The program allows you to protect its settings with a password to prevent them from being changed.
This tool is a great resource for those who surf with a consumer connection on a PC and is especially useful for deactivating the internet in order to protect the PC from potential data security threats.
Shutdown by calendar can then be useful to limit the use of the internet in the home by children or to avoid distractions and temptations when we are working.
InternetOff can be downloaded for free and must be installed and kept running in the background.
If you don't see its icon near the Windows desktop clock, press the up arrow to see it.
In the program settings, you can activate the schedule, i.e. programming, and decide, hour by hour and for all days of the week, when the internet must be turned off on the computer .
Another useful program to disable the connection quickly is NetDisabler which gives three options to block the internet: disable the network card, block the internet from DNS or block access to websites from the Windows Firewall.
