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Whilst you are sitting around using your computer (or even sipping a cup of coffee), there is a whole host of resources on your PC which are not being used. Wouldn't it be great to be able to sell those resources to people who could use them?? There are several websites out there which promise to pay you money to leave your computer switched on and connected to the internet. Why should they do this - well they are either reliant upon you building a downline (similar to a pyramid selling scheme) where the only real incentive for someone to join the programme and pay a joining fee is to build their own downline and receive payments from people further down the list) or upon using some of your computer resources to perform various processor or bandwidth hungry tasks. The problem with any such system should be obvious to anyone who is concerned over internet security - you have no control over the software which runs on your computer (and may allow other software such as viruses or adware to sneak onto your computer through open ports). The other problem is that many of these programs only add to the amount of spam emails being circulated and they could easily be used to create and control spoof (or fake) websites - known as phishing. Your computer would be linked to the rogue website and not the computer belonging to the original programmer, thus protecting them from prosecution and tracing, whilst leaving you "holding the baby". Certainly we would not recommend that you even consider installing such software without ensuring that you have full system protection for your computer. The Gomez Peer Service promises to allow you to earn money from your PC without having to lift a single finger, offering to provide a steady income stream for all the time that your PC is connected to the internet. They promise that you can make loads of money from this scheme, although we do wonder how they do this, as we have not actually come across any networks which appear to use their monitoring service. The Peer Service is offered by the Gómez Performance Network, which allows companies to keep a constant check on their website performance (loading times and website down times mainly) which can assist companies with fine-tuning their website in order to ensure that visitors become regular visitors, not put-off by pages which take an age to load. Companies can compare their website performance to that of their competitors in order to assess why some competitors websites seem to have a better impact. This forms part of the overall planning structure for a website and becomes one of a range of important tools to ensure that you get lots of visitors and can turn them into regular customers.
Companies must not rely upon performance increases alone, and their strategy must include using the various web-site submission and checking tools available, as well as visitor reporting tools which allow you to see how long each visitor stays on each page and how they navigate around your website. You also need to consider ways of keeping your customers informed and building a strong relationship with them. The problem is related to the fact that users from all over the world will have access to a website and will connect using a variety of methods, from high speed Broadband, to dialup internet, or even mobile internet. It is therefore important to try and get an idea of how your website performs across a wide variety of connection methods. So How Does This Enable You to Make Money?In order to provide this service, the Gómez Performance Network recruits internet users from all over the world, who are frequent users of the internet. They could not possibly provide all the necessary equipment and bandwidth to do this on their own and so they look to people who join their Peer connection (or file sharing) network. These members of the Peer Service are asked to download a program (approx 20Mb) which runs in the background whenever your computer is connected to the internet, and uses your computer's internet connection to test the response times of the websites belonging to the various customers of the Gómez Performance Network. All of this happens in the background and uses very little processing time on your PC (certainly not enough to affect performance noticeably). In fact, during the first 285 minutes on line, the Peer Service program only used 9 minutes of processing time. This service is obviously of great benefit to the Gómez Performance Network who can collate details of connection and performance data from users all over the world, using a wide variety of internet connections and service providers. In return for downloading the Peer Service program (approx 20Mb) and allowing this to run in the background members of the network are paid a fee based upon the amount of time which they are connected to the internet (with the program running), based upon a daily rate of $0.10 and the amount of processing time which it uses, based upon a rate of $0.0005 per minute. The only restriction is that you will not earn anything in a day that you are not connected to the service for more than 4 hours. There is a maximum amount of $45 pm earnings. Obviously it is the processing time which can make you the most money, so a reliable internet connection is essential. You are able to increase earnings by installing the program on more than one PC, introducing others to the program and leaving your PC connected to the internet 24/7 (which many users now do). You can reduce the costs of being part of the service (ie. the costs of running your PC) by setting power saving settings to switch off your monitor if it is not used for a while, but be careful to ensure that your PC is not set to switch off the hard disk or go into standby as this will stop the internet connection. You will also need to ensure that you have reliable anti-virus and firewall software installed. Overall View This would be a good scheme if there appeared to be sufficient call for their services and provided the service lives up to its promises and is certainly worth a try for anyone who spends hours connected to the internet, as you will not notice any reduction in the performance of your PC. However, the only real downside is that your application to the program needs to be approved so that the Gómez Performance Network know that they have a broad range of connection types and geographical locations, in order to ensure the best performance data for its customers. There is a 10 day waiting period to be approved, to enable the Gómez Performance Network to check how much your PC is used, connection speeds etc, and at the end of this you may be turned down, but you never know and it is certainly worth applying if you spend a lot of time connected to the internet and fall within one of the most wanted areas (see the Peer Service Website for details). From a security point of view, there is no control over the software which they try to run on your machine, and you therefore need to ensure that you have strong system protection before participating in any such scheme. You are more likely to be accepted to the scheme if you have an unusual geographical location or internet connection - for example a slow dial-up speed. However, we wonder just how many will now be accepted to this program in the future, especially as Gomez Performance Network will be able to continue their work just on the PCs of people who apply to join. As more and more people migrate to broadband, there will also be less call for this type of monitoring scheme and it will also be more difficult to provide the range of access methods required. We would have provided an idea of earnings, but having been connected to the programme for a couple of weeks, we were rejected, with no right of appeal or real explanation. We therefore wonder just how many do actually get accepted by the programme, or whether they can find sufficient resources by using just the network of computers who are connected for the 10 day approval period.
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