Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work that’s been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Google’s Mountain View campus on Thursday. The operating system is designed to imbue web applications with the "full functionality of desktop applications." As for the reasons behind the...

Broadband penetration has continued to rise in the European Union this year, according to a new report from the European Commission, which finds that 24% of the EU population had a broadband access line subscription in July 2009, up from 21.6% one year previously. The report also found that mobile broadband is gaining momentum in Europe, having posted a 54% increase since January and now having...

Microsoft has once again denied rumours that it built a backdoor into Windows 7. Long standing conspiracy theories that Redmond outfits Windows with a covert entry point for law enforcement resurfaced after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official told Congress it had worked with Redmond on the operating system. Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told a Senate...

Mobile broadband is continuing to grow at a fast pace due to the ever increasing introduction of new technologies, new networks, new devices and competitive innovation in the market. In July, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced that 7.2 Mbps had become the new baseline for mobile broadband globally, since at that time half of the HSPA networks in commercial service globally...

Ars Technica has allowed the cable industry lobbyists' top lawyer to explain why the cable industry supports breaking your DVR in a misguided effort to add more windows to movie releases. Not surprisingly, he simply repeats the MPAA's flat out lies and misrepresentations on this particular issue. For example, he claims that the movie studios need this or they won't get content out to the industry...

The ZSR0104CP is a broadband router with a single 10/100Mbps WAN port and four 10/100Mbps LAN ports. It supports UPNP, DNS proxy and DMZ.

This router provides VPN pass-through for IPSec and PPTP. It features a built-in SPI firewall to protect the network from hackers and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

The router can be easily configured via Web-based configuration utility, including...

The ZSR1124WE is a wireless router with a single 10/100Base-T WAN port and four 10/100Base-T LAN ports. It has a single 2 in 1 antenna, combining one 6dBi directional and one 3dBi omni-directional antennas.

The integrated access point complies with the IEEE 802.11b/g standards with wireless transmission speeds of up to 54Mbps. It can operate in Access point and Wireless bridge modes. It is WDS...

The GT701D is an ADSL1/2/2+ router with one RJ-11 WAN port and a single 10/100Mbps LAN port. This device provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps. It supports a variety of routing functions, such as NAT, DMZ and port forwarding.

This router features a built-in SPI firewall to protect the network against hackers and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

The router can be easily configured via...

The GT724R is an ADSL1/2/2+ router with one RJ-11 WAN port and four 10/100Mbps LAN ports. This device provides WAN throughput of up to 24Mbps.

This router supports VPN pass-through for IPSec and PPTP. It features a built-in SPI firewall to protect the network against hackers and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

The router can be easily configured via Web-based configuration utility,...

The Duolinks SW24 VPN is a broadband router with 2 10/100Mbps WAN ports and four 10/100Mbps LAN ports. Providing auto-failover and load balancing functions, you can use the two WAN ports simultaneously to increase the available bandwidth. The device also allows you to set the load balancing values for each WAN port individually and configure the load balancing algorithm to work by IP numbers,...

The EnduraLink BR-624 is a broadband router with 2 10/100Mbps WAN ports and four 10/100Mbps LAN ports, providing WAN throughput of up to 44Mbps. It supports auto-failover for uninterrupted Internet connection and uses four smart load-balancing methods: based on transmitted and received bytes, packets, number of established sessions, or number of host IP addresses.

This router supports VPN...

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...

Windows Vista introduces a number of new features to the TCP/IP stack, including CTCP, and TCP Window Auto-Tuning. This new implementation works much better by default than previous Windows versions with broadband internet connections, and is able to adjust the RWIN value on the fly, depending on the BDP (bandwidth-delay product). This, however, introduces some problems with older routers and restricts the user from tweaking some of the TCP/IP parameters. Still, there is always some room for...

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...