Earlier this year, it was reported that VDSL2 technology using noise cancellation technology can go up to 300 Mbps at 400 meters loop length.  Vendors like Alcatel-Lucent have managed to test 910 Mbps over 4 pairs of copper phone lines.  Since most homes have 2 pairs, that likely means half of that 910 Mbps figure.  One [...]

To simulate what would happen on a cell tower, I tested BitTorrent on a Starbucks hotspot with a T1 backhaul during off hours to see how much jitter I could induce. The resulting damage was brutal.

For streaming video lovers, the past year has been rough with Facebook slashing video quality in half and even a hint of Hulu dropping quality.  Then I started seeing some recent 720P videos on YouTube dropping from 2 Mbps to 1 Mbps which was a very alarming trend so I wanted to verify this by [...]

The news today is that the Television networks are blocking Google TV, a new streaming video set top box appliance for the living room, from accessing their web streams.  It’s not surprising that Google is being very tame about it and not crying foul since it wasn’t that long ago when Google blocked Syabas from [...]

We’ve heard countless stories from the media stemming from a flawed FCC report that U.S. broadband providers were ripping off consumers by delivering only half of the bandwidth they advertise. Now a new study with the most accurate data exonerates American ISPs.

We been told countless times that the United States has a lagging broadband infrastructure compared to other first world nations. But how is it that the U.S. leads in broadband data consumption second only to South Korea? The answer seems to lie in abundant and inexpensive server and core Internet capacity.

Matt Lassar of ArsTechnica argues why Traffic Pumping scams are a good thing by quoting the scammers.

ESPN has been blocking ISPs from ESPN360 for the last 4 years unless the ISP pays a per subscriber fee to ESPN and Net Neutrality supporters have always said that was legal. Now that News Corp tried the same thing as ESPN, Net Neutrality advocates want to make that illegal.

When computer algorithms beat humans in the stock market, the developer gets a bonus. When humans beat computer algorithm, the human goes to jail.

If a single aggressive Instant Messaging application brought T-Mobile’s wireless network to its knees, imagine what BitTorrent with 50 aggressive communication streams would do to it.