Category Archives: Network Delay
It’s Worse than that Jim – Bandwidth is not equal to Link Speed either.
In a recent blog my colleague, Phil Bull notes that there’s confusion over bandwidth and speed. This discussion started with an article on Network World’s website where Netforecast said “No Matter What the FCC Says, Bandwidth Is Not Speed”. Basically … Continue reading
Developing software that utilizes the network
The correct way to develop software that utilizes a network still seems to be a little understood subject. The main issue seems to be that there are few people around who have the experience necessary to understand both the correct … Continue reading
Watching the World Cup online at work may be illegal
With the World Cup just around the corner, you may be tempted to catch a match live while at work by watching streaming media over your computer. However, today our UK office received a letter from the TV Licensing Agency … Continue reading
How do you measure Latency (RTT) in a network these days?
I had a debate with one of our customers the other day on how to measure latency in their network. You may wonder why this even matters: Well, as I outlined in a previous blog, for almost all TCP based applications (Mail, … Continue reading