This story brought to you by Wired
“The Federal Trade Commission issued a staff report Wednesday on Net Neutrality, coming firmly down in the wait-and-see-if-ISPs-begin-acting-badly camp, cautioning lawmakers to be careful about creating rules that interfere with competition.
The FTC’s Internet Access Task Force’s report, which the five-member commission approved unanimously, describes the debate, the internet’s architecture […]
Ok so this is a sweet test. HP setup two datacenters, a primary and a backup datacenter, then they blew up the primary datacenter to see failover times. I would have liked to be involved in that, to be able to blowup a bunch of server racks and see it failover in real time. SWEET!
Here […]
Today is the last day for citizens and corporations to file comments on Net Neutrality with government regulators. The topic of Net Neutrality is basically if a law should be passed that would force equal ISP service to all instead of allowing ISPs to potentially play favorites. They may choose to offer faster or better […]
The well designed and well run network should basically run itself. Every hour of everyday the network should just hum along. People shouldn’t even realize that it is there. Users should be able to plug-in to a jack or hook-up to wifi without have to contact the IT dept. A well run network should handle […]
You hosting something on your home PC and the IP address keeps getting changed by your ISP? Check out this service called Dynamic DNS, it is a service that allows you to have a hostname permanently pointed back to your home computer even with a dynamic IP. How they do it is you install a […]
The US house passed another cyber-security bill to cover a range of cyber crimes and allow for civil penalties up to $3 million. The bill is called the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act.
Makes it unlawful to:
“…engage in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with specified conduct, including: (1) taking unsolicited control […]
So this is a follow-up post to Latency Vs. Bandwidth where I gave a good link to an explanation on the differences between the problem of Latency and Bandwidth on the Internet. The same blogger had a follow-up post that explained a few ways for you to help improve high latencies.
This is another good article that […]
If you want to take a quite look at the overall health of the major ISP backbones I found the site for you. I ran across it the other day and it is pretty sweet. Too bad the ISP my company is on isn’t listed but all of the big dog ISPs are.
Internet Health Report
Technorati […]
I ran across a pretty good read today that explains the problem with latency on WAN networks. The first part starts out saying that a lot of IT managers do not understand that just throughing more bandwidth at a problem won’t solve all your problems. This might be true of IT manager’s but all Network […]
RSS Feed
