Oct 21, 2010 | broadband, business, hardware, Internet, network
Previously: First Rumbling Of The Coming IPv6 Transition In the early 90s, a bunch of smart people in a position of authority got together and put together a replacement for IPv4 named IPv6, after many committee meetings and a few false starts. Since the immediate...
Oct 19, 2010 | broadband, Internet, network, news
You’re looking at a graph that will get an inordinate amount of attention in the global technical community and cause tremendous disruption for the next few years. Let me give you a very broad overview of an issue that you hope will be solved long before you ever have...
Oct 14, 2010 | broadband, IE, Internet, network, web_services
I stand by my reconsideration of Firefox, but I think my criticism of Internet Explorer was unjust. Some of my browsing problems were likely not caused by IE at all. They appear to have been caused by OpenDNS, some settings deep in my office network that affected my...
Sep 30, 2010 | broadband, laptops, mobile, wireless
Wireless networks are convenient and likely to be the way most of us get our network and Internet connections in the future. Wireless networks are a huge pain and nearly incomprehensible. Both of those things are true. Wireless technology has come a long way since the...
Apr 5, 2010 | broadband, business, web_services
BROADBAND While high-visibility battles are fought over health care and regulation of financial institutions, there are equally important things happening at a lower level, as federal agencies begin to reassert themselves under the leadership of people who believe in...
Jul 30, 2009 | broadband, computers, hardware, Internet, network
Ace consultant Brian Dent of CompuDent Systems points out an interesting corollary to the speed increases from Comcast: Just one caveat I’ve run into. A lot of the existing routers can’t handle a 50Mbps incoming signal. I have a 50Mbps account with a...
