Network speed tests really only give you a small window into your network's performance. It's not a completely useless test, ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

David Strom is the author of two books on computer networking, along with thousands of articles on various IT topics. Follow him on Twitter: @dstrom As agencies' networks widen their reach through the ...

Best practices seem to be on the mind of most IT professionals these days. Ad hoc firefighting and troubleshooting practices are no longer acceptable as regulatory and security concerns mount within ...

The selfhosting community is an interesting and useful part of the Internet dedicated to removing one’s own services and data from the cloud and hosting it on their own servers, often on hardware that ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Latency is the enemy of interactive audio and video. Packets that take too long to get to their destination are as good as lost, and that lowers the quality of the audio or video connection.

While still a relative newcomer to the performance management marketplace, Network Physics touches one of my personal hot buttons: leveraging insights across management disciplines to enable multiple ...

SpaceX has US Federal Communications Committee (FCC) approval to build a constellation of 4,425 low Earth orbit communication satellites. It will use phased array antennas for up and downlinks and ...