Category Archives: connectivityYou know, I hear this term Unified Communications all the time. It recently came up as I saw the press release of Jajah and CallWave partnering up to “make global communications easier for people and businesses to communicate and collaborate.”
The theory of having all your communication come through one inbox is appealing, no doubt. GrandCentral […]
Pat Phelan over at Cubic Telecom wrote a post about how much Twitter is costing businesses. As someone rightly pointed out in the comments, what’s the cost of any given thing to business anyway?
I think the bigger, more important question is why are we wasting our time–whatever it costs–using a service that clearly doesn’t have […]
Sometimes I think these companies like Jupiter Research make these predictions just to boost their own sense of self-importance. Take the latest buzzword technology–in this case Mobile WiMax–come up with some reasonable sounding numbers–will get 80 million users by 2013–and then publish a report about it. The press and the blogosphere go wild.
These may be […]
Before the electrical telegraph was invented, there was the optical telegraph. Optical telegraph were the “smoke signals” of their day, making it possible to communicate messages over a long distance.
According to an article on optical telegraphs,optical telegraph networks existed all over Europe and North America until the electrical telegraph was invented. They were able to […]
Given that I recently gave Skype a huge thumbs up on their High Quality Video stuff, I got some calls from the fine folks at SightSpeed, who were obviously a bit concerned about what I had to say. Aside from a call with their CEO Peter Csathy, I also had a call with their CTO […]
What you see here is a “makeshift” router of sorts: the combination of a simple 5-port switch and a D-Link DWL-G730AP that I had purchased a while ago. Why am I using this when I have a perfectly good Linksys router I could use that does both of these things (the router pictured here)?
Quite simple, […]
I can’t remember the last time I willingly used any product of Yahoo’s aside from Flickr. Personally, I try and be a company man and use my employer’s offering in the space. So why do I care about Yahoo? Why does anyone care about Yahoo?
I got to thinking about this when I saw Andy Abramson’s […]
When we look for a place to live, one of the absolute requirements is: can we get broadband. No broadband, we don’t live there. (A close second is proximity to an airport). It’s an occupational hazard of working from home.
When you live in the middle of nowhere like this guy who asked Slashdot, and you […]
One thing I did on this trip was give my boss my Verizon Wireless V620 PC-card, which allows me to get high-speed Internet access anywhere Verizon Wireless had service. A couple of problems with this arrangement: that PC-card wouldn’t work on my Mac and Verizon Wireless has only 1XRTT service in my neck of the […]
I have a network that is more complex than your average person. Then again,my day job involves technical support. Or at least it used to. Occasionally, I am called upon to actually do technical support, but these days it’s mostly writing. Or editing writing.
Even so, I have two Internet connections at home: DSL and Cable. […]
I’ve been getting a little jealous of word that American Airlines was going to add WiFi in their planes. American Airlines is not an airline I usually take. I would have taken them to Ottawa, but they wanted twice as much as Air Canada this time around. It’s also nice to experience different airports every […]
Several months ago, I was contacted by an old friend from my days of supporting Check Point FireWall-1 about a new venture he was working on called SupportSpace. I eventually joined their Advisory Committee.
The basic idea behind SupportSpace is: hooking up people that need help with people that provide that help. It’s like putting your […]
I’ve been having some nagging problems with my DSL service with CenturyTel. The long and the short of it is that I have not been able to take advantage of the highest speeds CenturyTel offers.
I bought a Westell 327w11 modem on the advice of CenturyTel technical support. Modem kept disconnecting frequently, not to mention a […]
This is completely and totally unsubstantiated, considering it comes from a random user on DSL Broadband Reports, but it does add fuel to the fire of what the heck Comcrap considers “excessive use.” Certainly the 0.01% number seems reasonable and would explain why they have been unable to state conclusively “what the bandwidth limit” is.
I […]
Previously, I had written about my experiences getting Cable and DSL up in my new place. Going through all the machinations made me realize a couple of key differences between Cable and DSL.
As deployed in the majority of cases, Cable simply has more available bandwidth to the customer premises than DSL. At my old place, […]
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