[Kurt] likes to know what’s going on with his network. He already uses bandwidth checking software on his DD-WRT capable router, but he wanted a second opinion. So he built his own network monitor.

There are a lot of reasons why systems slow down. Some process might be bogging down the CPU, you may be seeing a lot of disk contention, or maybe memory is in high demand and a lot of swapping is ...

Microsoft expects organizations using its Delivery Optimization peer-to-peer update scheme will optimally see 60 percent to 70 percent improvements in terms of network bandwidth use when handling ...

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Phil Hippensteel breaks down the concept of bandwidth, one of AV-over-IP’s most common terms. How much do you know about it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Joining a slew of management vendors, AdventNet last week announced it would launch a NetFlow-based bandwidth-monitoring tool to help network administrators identify application traffic on their nets ...

Wireless networking is ubiquitous: you can jump on a Wi-Fi network just about anywhere in the world, it seems. Yet despite the prevalence of the technology, little exists in the way of standards and ...

If you already know what your business will look like a year from now—what the market demand will be, how your customers will respond, and the technologies that will be available to serve them—then ...

All things being equal, we'd all prefer to have more bandwidth rather than less. But of course, cost and availability both limit the bandwidth we can actually install, forcing organizations to ...

Telecommunications provider BT has taken the wraps off its "bandwidth on demand" offering, enabling customers to turn up and down the speeds they're using at will under consumption-based pricing. As ...