You’ve likely heard the terms latency, bandwidth, and throughput before. What do these things mean, and what’s the difference? Latency measures the time it takes for data to transfer from one point of ...

Using an Ethernet cable to connect your gaming console or PC directly to your router can lead to significant improvements in ...

In a recent post on the Internet Society’s blog entitled “Bandwidth is Dead. Long Live Latency,” Jason Livingood, vice ...

The selfhosting community is an interesting and useful part of the Internet dedicated to removing one’s own services and data from the cloud and hosting it on their own servers, often on hardware that ...

It may sound inevitable that a summer of streaming live sports and festivals will put more demand on the home network. Whether watching Wimbledon tennis matches, Euros football finals, or live music, ...

To help companies make the most of AI, Cisco has created the Deep Network model, purpose-built for data-heavy workloads and ...

It’s been an interesting week at work. Make that two weeks. For the last couple of weeks, we have been working on a throughput performance issue between a very expensive Fujitsu M8000 server and ...

In general terms latency is a measure of the delay that occurs between the start of a transaction and its completion. In gaming for example, latency is the delay between clicking a mouse button, and ...

I have in my house. But there are still times when I'm watching a movie and the video starts to stutter and stop. What's going on? It's not that AT&T is failing to deliver the speed. No, it's because ...

Google engineers figured out a way to improve latency within the company’s software-defined networking (SDN) platform — Andromeda. Google released the latest version of the platform, Andromeda 2.1, ...

For testing purposes, I need to simulate sending data across a WAN. Both machines (one RHEL, one a Debian-based appliance) will be located on a single VMWare server, and I can either install a third ...