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IPv4 apocalypse means we just can't measure the internet any more
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-09-19 08:25
IPv4 address exhaustion is making it harder to measure the size of the Internet, even as IPv6 deployment accelerates.
While IPv6 activity doubled in 2015 (to 400 million addresses by year-end), the vast majority of users are still on IPv4 addresses, mostly via dynamic assignment or behind carrier-grade Network Address Translation (NAT) boxes.
Google Is Bringing Free Gigabit Fiber to Public Housing Across the US
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2016-02-03 23:53
Last summer, Google said it would help connect some 275,000 low-income homes to the internet as part of the White House’s ConnectHome initiative. Now the company is making good on that promise.
Today Google announced it had outfitted 100 homes at the West Bluff public housing complex in Kansas City with a free Google Fiber connection. It worked with the Housing Authority of Kansas City on the project, which is the first of many it will complete as part of the ConnectHome partnership.
IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-01-04 00:00
Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. So what's an Internet Protocol, and what's wrong with the previous five versions? And if version 6 is so great, why has it only been adopted by half a percent of the Internet's users each year over the past two decades?
A farmer built his own 4G mast to fix rural broadband issues
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-08-19 00:57
Living in rural England, Richard Guy was a man with a problem. Like many located in similar areas, his "broadband" internet connection was pretty narrow, with download speeds below 1Mbps. While some isolated communities are grouping together to build their own municipal networks, Guy had another solution: mobile data. He created his own 4G mast and wired it up with fiber optic cables, and now enjoys 45Mbps+ connection speeds. Guy, a farmer by trade, has since set up a business called Agri-Broadband to help other rural businesses get connected.
How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-08-17 00:57
Some of the most widely used BitTorrent applications, including uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze are also the most vulnerable to a newly discovered form of denial of service attack that makes it easy for a single person to bring down large sites.
