Imbalance in Net speeds impedes sharing
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Blame the Internet's legacy systems if Jay Glatfelter falls asleep Thursday mornings. Co-host of an online audio show about "Lost," Glatfelter must wait about 40 minutes to finish posting his program to the Internet in the hours after ABC's Wednesday night broadcast. If he were downloading it as his listeners do, the same file would take only a few minutes over a cable modem.
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What is "reasonable network management"? At long last, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will investigate claims that Comcast has put a choke hold on P2P file-sharing traffic.â¦
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The average person in the Western world takes the Internet for granted, yet fewer than 20 percent of the 6 billion people living on this planet have access to it. Web-enabling 50 percent of the world&#39;s population by 2015 may sound ambitious, but that&#39;s AMD&#39;s goal for its 50x15 initiative, which will stress the use of alternative sources of sustainable, affordable power.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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Not all of the cable company's broadband subscribers got a recent hike in bandwidth.
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The company tells the FCC that blocking some file sharing prevents subscribers from hogging the bandwidth and keeps net traffic moving.
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Storage appliance maker EqualLogic Inc. says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network.
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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Are you a Comcast customer? Your bandwidth hogging days may be limited.
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A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization "feature" of Vista that's intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources.
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Underpromising in order to overdeliver can't make up for sluggish operating results.
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Throughput improvements to 200 kilobits per second (up from between 70 kbps and 135 kbps) noted by multiple users.
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Comcast customers report sharing disruptions; venture capitalists go shopping and more.
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By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Jun. 13--MONROVIA, Calif. -- In the world of Internet data transfers,  speed is king.    Slow downloads can be both frustrating and costly for businesses that  want to remain efficient.
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One of the nation's largest internet providers routinely interferes with attempts by its subscribers to share files, an Associated Press investigation finds. In doing so, Comcast completely ignores the established practice of treating all internet traffic equally.
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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Over the next two years network based storage virtualization will remain a niche, while thin provisioning will enjoy rapid adoption in the enterprise. And, applying network-based storage virtualization to pool arrays isn't likely to improve this environment if efficient utilization hasn't already been achieved.