August 28th, 2010
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 →
August 26th, 2010
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 →
August 24th, 2010
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 →
August 18th, 2010
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 →
August 18th, 2010
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 →
August 12th, 2010
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 →
August 10th, 2010
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 →
August 8th, 2010
A guest speaker at this year’s Defcon network security conference criticized the security … Read Full Post  Read More →
August 6th, 2010
“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 →
August 4th, 2010
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 →
August 2nd, 2010
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 →
July 31st, 2010
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 →
July 30th, 2010
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 →
July 26th, 2010
Category 7 (CAT7) is a next-generation standard cabling technology primarily designed for Ethernet networks. Category 7 … Read Full Post  Read More →
July 24th, 2010
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 →
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