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- Bandwidth
- (1) Capacity or time. Computer people sometimes use the term very broadly. For example, "there's not enough bandwidth around here to get the job done" means there's not...
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- Web 2.0 causing extra strain on telcos
- While operators may be happy to see the extra revenue coming in from selling bandwidth, coping with the strain is not a simple task. Web 2.0 sites are causing new strain for telcos, according to a Citrix Systems top exec. Klaus Oestermann, group vice president, Citrix...
- Tags: Web, Telecommunications Company, Strain, Web 2.0 Site, Web 2.0, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, bandwidth, telephone companies, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-06-08
- NBMonitor Network Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.1 (Windows)
- NBMonitor tracks your internet bandwidth upload and downloads usage, monitors all your Internet, it shows all the active connections you have to the Internet at any given moment and also the volume of traffic flowing through them. NBMonitor displays real-time details about your network connections and network adapter's bandwidth usage....
- Tags: Monitor, Bandwidth, Network, Microsoft Windows, Nsasoft, Internet, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-06-08
- Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?
- Novel idea of the day: Allow Wi-Fi routers to share bandwidth with the outside world via a side channel. Dana Blankenhorn over at our latest addition---SmartPlanet.com---makes the following suggestion: Give each router its own on-off switch, so that it will remain on after the computer it...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Router, Wi-Fi, Routers & Switches, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher 6.2.2.983 (Windows)
- PRTG Traffic Grapher is an easy to use Windows application for monitoring and classifying bandwidth usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. PRTG is mainly used for bandwidth usage monitoring, but may also be used to monitor many other aspects of...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Microsoft Windows, Paessler, PRTG Traffic Grapher, PRTG, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-06-01
- Long live the Sneakernet: Computing's most resilient network
- When Amazon Web Services' latest---and arguably most valuable---service is a system that allows you to ship terabytes of data to the cloud via snail mail you just have to chuckle. Yes folks, for all the fancy talk of cloud computing, terabytes---not to mention petabytes---of data and technological advancement the Sneakernet...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Terabyte, Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Sneakernet, Gigabyte Data Set, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Google does 3 Chrome updates, and runs out of bandwidth
- Google does 3 Chrome updates, and runs out of bandwidthSo, Garett sticks to the RIGHT definitionand he is to blame for the sloppiness in Chrome's members' blog posts? Great. This cult of google is approaching Apple's cult level: "something it's not what it is, it's whatever Apple says it is,...
- Tags: Google Inc., bandwidth, Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-05-10
- Google does 3 Chrome updates, and runs out of bandwidth
- It sounds like there isn't going to be a dev channel release of Chrome this week -- simply because they've already updated the stable, and beta channels this week, and simply can't do any more because they ran out of bandwidth. You wouldn't think bandwidth at Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bandwidth, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-05-09
- Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?
- Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?Common Carriers?Until we have real competition, like they do in Japan, we're going to be discussing caps and net neutrality. You want competition? Make every ISP a common carrier. Separate the content interests from the carriage interests. Allow...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., bandwidth, Mb/s, Cablevision 101 Mbps claim, Mbps claim, Cablevision 101, Price-War
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99
- AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99Crossfire that, and you've got great performance.If gamers would get two of 4770s instead of a 4890, they'll get a much better performance and that's a bargain!But I'd rather go with a 4750 and underclock to match the performance of a 4670 as...
- Tags: Performance management, Games, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., card, Nvidia 9800, AMD Radeon HD 4770, GDDR5
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- What Price Bandwidth? Time Warner Cable Should Not Back Off
- Let Time Warner Cable charge whatever it wants for bandwidth on the Internet. This is a free country. If you decide to go elsewhere, that's the penalty to TWC. But TWC should not back off on its usage-metered billing plans. People who don't download movies should not...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Bandwidth, Verizon Communications Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Zeebo - the fourth game console?
- Zeebo - the fourth game console?This Would Flop Miserably In The USANot so much because of the console itself, but with ISPs imposing bandwidth throttling hard core gamers would suffer at the hands of the almighty data cap.Couldn't possibly use more bandwidth than XBLAThe bandwidth used by the Zeebo can't...
- Tags: Games, Game players, XBLA, Zeebo, game, bandwidth, console, game console
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Five things I'd like to see from my broadband provider
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld posted yesterday five things he would like to see change about his cable operator. As cable is practically a thing of the past over here in the UK, with satellite and Freeview free digital channels hitting most television sets, I thought long and hard about where the next...
- Tags: House, Bandwidth, VoIP, P2P, Broadband, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Cyberoam UTM Provides Non-Stop Business Security and Connectivity to NDMC
- New Delhi Municipal Council NDMC is the Municipal Council of India's Capital City - New Delhi. NDMC was already using Cisco PIX. They wanted to replace this legacy firewall and also wanted to protect their 15 servers. A legacy firewall solution only cannot control indiscriminate surfing and blended threats originating...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Business Security, Elitecore Technologies, Cyberoam UTM, New Delhi Municipal Council, Internet, Network Security, Networking
- Case studies 2009-03-23
- Damon86 Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.3329.34004 (Windows)
- Bandwidth Monitor will sit in the background recording the amount of bandwidth you have used. The program will automatically save your usage and can also been exported should you wish to upgrade or transfer the stats to a new computer.
- Tags: Monitor, Bandwidth, Microsoft Windows, Whord.net, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-02-20
- Simple image hosting script 1.0.0 (Windows)
- Simple image hosting script for your website which doesn't require your space or bandwidth. Easy installation and great support. You can use this standalone or integrate it into an existing website with a simple instructions. Your users won't use your bandwidth or space to use it. Great way to make...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Hosting, Zwixy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-02-11
- throttled 0.5.1 (Mac)
- Throttled is a bandwidth shaper for Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and linux which allows you to put a cap on your upstream bandwidth and keep your download speeds high even when your server is sending out at full speed. Features: Allows you to set either a global throttle for all...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Apple Macintosh, Network, Throttle, IntrArts Creative Media, CPU Usage, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-02-04
- Throttled Pro 1.5.1 (Mac)
- Throttled Pro provides weighted network queues (WF2Q+) that guarantee bandwidth for all your essential network services like web browsing, email, and online gaming. In addition, it provides ACK packet priority which speeds up downloads when you are sending out a lot of data. This combination assures that you get the...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Apple Macintosh, Network, Online Game, File-sharing, IntrArts Creative Media, Throttled Pro, Games, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-02-04
- Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre Showcases Latest in Web and Internet Content Security
- Over the past few years, increasing volumes of spam entering Suntec Singapore's network caused the organisation significant problems. Users were experiencing significant delays accessing critical applications via the Internet because of the massive amounts of bandwidth that spam was consuming. Suntec Singapore's IT staff was using the basic rules in...
- Tags: Web, Bandwidth, Content Filtering, Marshal, Suntec Singapore, Internet, Content Management, Cyberthreats, Spam, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Case studies 2009-01-29
- GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream
- GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream8? 12? 16? In a business?Hell, my own key is 20 characters AT HOME! I would hope any sensible IT manager would use way more than 8! And my router password is 13 characters.RE: GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstreamTell...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking, password, bandwidth, LAN
- Discussion threads 2009-01-22
- Disaster Recovery White Paper: Reducing the Bandwidth to Keep Remote Sites Constantly Up-to-Date
- Although the consolidation from discrete physical servers to virtual servers has made it possible for many organizations to configure an affordable remote Disaster Recovery DR site, the inter-site traffic to keep the DR location current soon grows to be a problem. The volume of updates from newly created virtual machines...
- Tags: Bandwidth, DataCore Software, Remote Site, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-20

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