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SpeedGuide.net - Best Broadband Speed tweaks
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"Some of the best Broadband tweaks and Speed patches on the Net"
The site focuses on system performance, with areas including Broadband Internet connections, Windows, Overclocking,
all targeted towards a technically aware audience. A large section of SpeedGuide.net is dedicated to Cable Modems and DSL technology,
stressing on improving TCP/IP performance over high speed/latency networks.
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Feds seize illegal sports-streaming sites 2012.02.03 11:33 EST by Daniela
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...
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Facebook financials boosts Internet stocks 2012.02.03 10:58 EST by Daniela
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...
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Netflix looks to beat bandwidth caps with new software 2012.02.02 13:59 EST by Daniela
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...
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The Pirate Bay Switches Domains After Founders' Appeal Denied 2012.02.02 11:49 EST by Daniela
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...
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Comcast To Widen Low-Income Broadband Program, Double Speeds 2012.02.01 15:21 EST by Daniela (2 comments)
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...
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SSD Speed Tweaks by Philip (3 comments)
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...
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How To Crack WEP and WPA Wireless Networks by Philip (86 comments)
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...
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The TCP Window, Latency, and the Bandwidth Delay product by Philip (4 comments)
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...
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Windows Vista tcpip.sys connection limit patch for Event ID 4226 by Philip (18 comments)
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...
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Compex NetPassage 26G Wireless Gateway by Philip
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...
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Netgear RP614 Review by Jason (Qwijib0) Katterhenry (17 comments)
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...
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