160Mbps down / 120Mbps up cable speeds coming
One analyst predicts that by 2011, 40 percent of consumers will be able to take advantage of the higher speeds offered by DOCSIS 3.0. DOCSIS 3.0 achieves its speed boost in part through “channel...
View ArticleSuper-Fast Internet to Debut This Year
South Korea, the world’s most wired nation, continues to push the envelope on the speed of the broadband Internet and looks set to make 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) a commercial possibility. read moreÂ...
View ArticleThree year old boy buys a car on the net
A three-year-old boy has used his mother’s computer to buy a £9,000 car on an internet auction site. Jack Neal’s parents only discovered their son’s successful bid when they received a message from...
View ArticleStudy Shows Internet to Be Resilient Against Terror Attack
Researchers have simulated what would happen to Internet reliability in the United States if terrorists were able to knock out various physical components of the network. The good news is that it would...
View ArticleMap: What Does the Internet Look Like?
“This visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the IPv6 Internet topology collected around March 4th, 2005. Topology data gathered from 17 monitors probing approximately 860 globally routable...
View ArticleLeading UN member warns of ‘broken up’ internet
The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. The Chair of the Internet Governance Forum, warned that...
View ArticleTop 29 Things to do When Your ISP is Down
1. Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years. 2. Reintroduce yourself to your immediate family. read more | digg story
View ArticleRealistic Internet Simulator
Possibly the most realist internet simulator ever created. The internet experience distilled to its most basic form. read more | digg story
View ArticleMap: What Does the Internet Look Like?
Why China has as many IP addresses as an American university, which ISP should be called “Spamalot,” and more. read more | digg story
View ArticleHow do you fix an undersea cable?
Powerful earthquakes near Taiwan shut off international phone and Internet service for the Far East just after Christmas. Five repair ships have been working on the damaged undersea cables since late...
View ArticlePentagon to Put Internet Router in Space
The Department of Defense’s Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009. It will allow voice, video and data communications for US troops using standards developed for the...
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