Wi-Fi Inspector is a popular tool from Xirrus used to monitor and troubleshoot wireless networks. It is a software utility for Microsoft Windows computers. Compared to utilities built into the … Read Full Post  Read More →

The “most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever” occurred in 2008, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn. Was it a well-coordinated cyberattack that penetrated the Pentagon’s … Read Full Post  Read More →

With our homes (mostly) going wireless, one new product you may not have expected to see is a broadband router with expanded cabling capability. Yet the D-Link DIR-632 is exactly … Read Full Post  Read More →

It has been almost two years since 1 gigabit per second home Internet in Japan first became available. Japan is a world leader in providing high bandwidth connections to residences. … Read Full Post  Read More →

It has been almost two years since 1 gigabit per second home Internet in Japan first became available. Japan is a world leader in providing high bandwidth connections to residences. … Read Full Post  Read More →

Although Saudi Arabia joined the UAE in banning BlackBerry network services last week, the Saudi government has since changed its mind. Governments seemed to be concerned about BlackBerries because their … Read Full Post  Read More →

Site member Matthew M. is one of many who’ve ask me for advice about starting a rural Internet Service Provider (ISP) business. Matthew’s idea is to build a mesh network … Read Full Post  Read More →

A guest speaker at this year’s Defcon network security conference criticized the security … Read Full Post  Read More →

“There are two sides to every story” or so the saying goes. In 2008, criminal charges were brought against a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, California … Read Full Post  Read More →

You may think you have fast Internet service today. Or you may have resigned yourself to a future of agonizingly slow connections. In the U.S., at least, the range of … Read Full Post  Read More →

Streaming video over a wireless network is a challenging technical problem that requires both high bandwidth and low latency . So what could be harder than that? Try 3D video over … Read Full Post  Read More →

The recent Apple iPhone 4 Antennagate controversy put a bright public spotlight onto an technical issue of wireless networking well-known to engineers for many years. Called attenuation , the concept is … Read Full Post  Read More →

Some owners of the Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS have difficulty connecting their devices to the Internet due to an incompatibility with their home router’s network firewall . In the worst … Read Full Post  Read More →

Category 7 (CAT7) is a next-generation standard cabling technology primarily designed for Ethernet networks. Category 7 … Read Full Post  Read More →

There’s no shortage of complaints in the U.S. over the perceived shortage of wireless spectrum: Failure to get cellular phone service, interference from neighbors’ Wi-Fi home networks, and slow download … Read Full Post  Read More →