Days before the Super Bowl, federal authorities blitzed more than a dozen websites illegally streaming live sporting events. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies announced Thursday that they had seized 16 websites and brought criminal charges against a Michigan man who operated nine of them. In total the authorities took down a record breaking 307 domain names. The...

Tech stocks related to social media, like Groupon and Zynga, see shares rise after Facebook IPO. Groupon Inc shares jumped to their highest level of 2012 Thursday as the daily deal company got a boost from social networking euphoria sparked by Facebook's IPO filing. Zynga shares are up about 11% and have set a new high in today’s action. Zynga's business model is largely based on Facebook's...

Netflix is looking to put an end of the Internet issues in video such as jitter, buffering and freezing with licensed bandwidth-scrunching software from start-up eyeIO. Today EYE IO, LLC (eyeIO) makes its official debut as an Internet video streaming technology provider, announcing its first commercial license agreement with Netflix, Inc. "eyeIO provides a straightforward solution for...

Sweden's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by the founders of The Pirate Bay, meaning their jail sentences and fines are now final. In 2010, TPB founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström received 10 month, eight month, and four month prison sentences, respectively, after being found guilty in 2009 of violating Swedish copyright law. Those sentences will now be upheld along...

After connecting 41,000 low-income households under its $9.95-per-month Internet Essentials broadband service, Comcast will expand eligibility requirements for the program, as well as double connection speeds and step up digital literacy efforts. Comcast estimates that 2 million U.S. households could qualify for the program. The 41,000 who've signed up so far represent about 2 percent of those...

The TL-ER6120 supports multiple VPN protocols including IPsec, PPTP and L2TP in Client/Server mode and can handle pass-through traffic as well. It also features a built-in hardware-based VPN engine allowing the router to support and manage up to 100 LAN-to-LAN/Client-to-LAN IPsec VPN connections.

For defense against external threats, TL-ER5120 features an automatic protection to detect and...

The TL-ER5120 features one fixed Gigabit WAN port, one Gigabit LAN/DMZ port and three free changeable ports that can be set to either LAN or WAN, allowing the router to support up to four WAN ports to satisfy various Internet access requirements through one device.

The Intelligent Load Balancing function can distribute data streams according to the bandwidth proportion of every WAN port to...

The NETGEAR Universal Dual Band WiFi Range Extender, 4-port WiFi Adapter extends dual band WiFi coverage for your wireless home office or home theater network. It works with any standard router or gateway and enables a better WiFi connection for laptops, home theater devices, smartphones and more.

The device supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption. A WPS button allows for easy wireless...

The router provides wireless broadband internet access using 3G/EVDO service. It is optimized for intelligent co-existence between WiFi and EVDO signals.

In combination with the CradlePoint Business Router, the Business Grade Modem (MC100E) provides a complete network solution using a high-speed wireless (3G/EVDO) primary connection.

Designed for both primary connect and network failover...

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...

TL-R600VPN, TP-LINK's SafeStream™ Gigabit Broadband VPN Router, supports Gigabit Ethernet connections on both WAN and LAN ports which guarantee high-speed wired connectivity.

TL-R600VPN's abundant security strategies such as SPI Firewall, DoS Defense and IP-MAC Binding help protect your network against most known attacks.

The router supports IPsec and PPTP VPN protocols and can handle...

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...