World IPv6 Day has been and gone, and the result is nothing but good news: everything went smoothly, nothing broke, and the Internet appears ready to begin its gradual transition towards the new addressing scheme over the next few years.
The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings.
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Verizon Wireless may be following rival AT&T in making it difficult for users who do not subscribe to an official tethering plan, valued at $20 per month for 2 GB of data, to unofficially connect their WiFi-enabled laptop to share their Android smartphone’s mobile broadband connection.
Impatient computer users fed up with waiting for hefty downloads could benefit from a laser bandwidth breakthrough that enables data rates of 26Tbits/sec.
The uber-fast broadband landmark – equivalent of downloading 700 DVDs a second – using a single laser beam sent over 50Km, according to scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Bandwidth caps are all the rage these days, in North America and around the world. We're talking about the notorious ceilings on how much broadband data you can use before your ISP starts charging you extra, or slowing down your connection, or shaping your traffic use (eg, blocking your access to certain applications).
I once worked in the IT department of a tech manufacturing company where we ran into an interesting problem: A large portion of the office network would go offline for several minutes to an hour or more at random intervals on random days.
The network administrators ran diagnostic after diagnostic, probed logs, and interrogated routers, yet couldn't pinpoint the problem. However, most of the time the network had started working again before they could find the issue.
