Joel Tenenbaum, a file sharer who is in a legal battle with some major labels for file sharing - asked the appeals court for help after a jury awarded the labels $675,000 for the sharing of just a few songs. The judge, Nancy Gertner, reduced the award to $67,500 - knocking 90% off the jury's award. However, the appeals court in the case reinstated the original $675,000 on procedural grounds. ...

Antivirus firm Avira yesterday faced a problem that led several of its products to mistakenly block legitimate Windows applications during an Avira software update. Components reportedly blocked included iexplore.exe, notepad.exe and regedit.exe, plus applications including Microsoft Office and Google Updater were also sin- binned. Today, Avira updated the software to sidestep the problem. ...

LightSquared Inc. filed for bankruptcy, which is probably the end of its plans to deploy a high-speed wireless network that would reach to as many as 260 million people. LightSquared, in a statement, said the company plans to continue its normal operation through the process, and still plans to build its 4G LTE network. "Today's filing was not an option the company embraced quickly or easily,...

A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content. The system is called Pirate Pay and according to reports, so far they have managed to stop tens of thousands of downloads in a collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures. The system was sponsored by Microsoft. "We used a number of servers to make a connection to each...

Buffalo Technology, a global manufacturer of network devices, today announced that the AirStation™ WZR-D1800H wireless router and WLI-H4-D1300 wireless media bridge are now available for purchase from select retail partners. Based on Broadcom's 5G WiFi chips and first unveiled on the show floor at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, WZR-D1800H and WLI-H4-D1300...

The LevelOne PLI-3411 200Mbps Powerline Wireless Access Point can be used to bridge Ethernet devices such as modems, routers, PCs, set-top-boxes, and game consoles, allowing users to share network access via existing in-home power cabling.

The device has an extra built-in 802.11n access point, enabling users to enjoy mobility, high-speed wireless connection and better coverage with no more...

Adopting advanced MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output), providing WMM (Wi-Fi Multi Media), and featuring Gigabit Ethernet ports for fast wired connections, ensure that users are free to enjoy multiple simultaneous bandwidth consuming and interruption sensitive applications.

The TL-WR1042ND is specially equipped with a USB storage port on the back of the router capable of deploying storage, a media...

ASUS RT-N15U is a SOHO networking device which provides 300Mbps wireless data rate and stable Gigabit LAN connection. The versatile USB application also supports all-in-one printer, FTP server, and UPnP streaming, enriching the wireless environment completely.

The RT-N15U provides up to four SSIDs with dynamic bandwidth management. High bandwidth for top priority and full access while basic...

The MBR1515 is an LTE Mobile router, intended for the North American market. The router has one SIM card slot, one 10/100Base-T WAN port and a 4-port Ethernet switch.

Built-in port forwarding settings, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP™) and virtual private network (VPN) pass-through make it simple to play Internet games, send instant messages, and host Internet services.

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RNX-N300RT 300M Wireless N Router integrates 4-port Switch, Firewall, NAT-Router and Wireless AP. Powered by 2x2 MIMO technology, the 300M Wireless N Router delivers exceptional range and speed, which can fully meet the needs of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) networks and the users' demand on higher networking performance.

RNX-N300RT 300M Wireless N Router provides up to 300Mbps wireless...

The TL-WA5210G 2.4GHz High Power Wireless Outdoor CPE is dedicated to Outdoor wireless network solutions. It complies with the IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b standards so that the data transmission rate is up to 54Mbps.

The device provides 3 operation modes: AP client router, AP router and AP. In AP client router mode, it works as a WISP CPE and can access the Internet wirelessly via your...

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have a great potential to speed up your system, and they're becoming mainstream with prices dropping and the technology maturing. SSDs are faster, have no moving parts, use less power, are quieter, less succeptible to physical shock, with lower access time and latency than traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs). However, SSDs use memory chips to store data, which makes them quite different than traditional mechanical drives and most current...

Introduction With the popularity of wireless networks and mobile computing, an overall understanding of common security issues has become not only relevant, but very necessary for both home/SOHO users and IT professionals alike. This article is aimed at illustrating current security flaws in WEP/WPA/WPA2. Successfully cracking a wireless network assumes some basic familiarity with networking principles and terminology, as well as working with command-line tools. A basic familiarity...

This article is intended as a primer on some TCP/IP networking concepts and factors that determine an optimal TCP Receive Window.   The TCP Window  The TCP Window is the amount of outstanding data (unacknowledged by the recepient) that can remain in the network. After sending that amount of data, the sender stops and waits for acknowledgement back from the receiver that it has gotten some of it. As such, this value is probably the single most important...

Microsoft enforces a limit on half-open TCP/IP connections that is hard-coded in tcpip.sys. The maximum simultaneous half-open (incomplete) outbound TCP connection attempts per second that the system can make is intended to limit the spread of malicious viruses and worms, as well as limit the possibility of launching a DDoS attack. However, it has proven to also limit some applications using many TCP connections, such as P2P and P2PTV programs. When the OS reaches the half-open...

Introduction The Travel Mate 292XC is a part of the 290 Series laptops from Acer. There is a large range of models within the 290 series with different specifications, some Centrino based, and others just Pentium M. This particular model being reviewed, the LX-T3505.455, is a Celeron M 330 processor version and it is a very well priced for its specifications. This model was purchased for about $599.99 CAD and has the following specs: Processor: Intel Celeron M 330 Processor...

Introduction D-Link was founded in 1986, and since then has catered to both consumer and SOHO users. D-Link is already a well known name in the home networking market, however in the past D-Link products have been considered inferior to those of their competitors such as Linksys (Cisco) and Netgear (Bay Networks). Recently this stigma has begun to disappear with D-Link taking a large portion of the home and SOHO markets. The D-Link DI-524 is one of the company's new series of Wireless-G routers,...

Introduction Compex is an established, yet forward-thinking company in the networking, wireless and telecommunications industry. The company was founded in 1987 and focuses on designing, development and manufacturing a complete line of networking products for the home, SOHO, broadband, and WLAN market needs. The NetPassage 26G is a notable addition to the wireless wave of broadband routers that is sweeping the current home/SOHO market. It comes with a...

Netgear is well known in the networking market.  Originally a consumer-oriented subsidiary of Bay Networks, they have since been spun off to become their own company.  Some of the first consumer routers came out of Netgear, and they have been a major player in the home networking scene.  Their latest line of products sports a new sleek look, a major change of the square purple boxes for which they were known.  Personally, I was a fan of the old box, but then again, not everybody wants a...