In the last newsletter, we continued a discussion of discarding voice vs. data packets. This time we’ll continue that discussion with a proposal for how data transmission could be greatly enhanced by ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling economics of building corporate private-line networks. By the late 1980s, ...

Right-click on the Start menu (the Windows icon on your taskbar) and select Command Prompt (Admin)/Windows PowerShell (Admin) ...

Each device driver can choose to count (and report) bytes but does not need to. It's harder to count bytes than to just count packets and it's safe to say that most driver writers do not ...

The vast majority of administrators go to great lengths to protect the files on their network. Typically, elaborate firewalls are used to keep outsiders away from file servers. The files residing on ...

The most important networking command in Linux might be ping. This command lets you check if a remote machine is responding to your requests. You can use ping to check if your internet connection is ...

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The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up.