MacFixIt reader David Faust describes a problem corroborated by other users where system utilizing an AirPort Extreme card will repeatedly drop packets - resulting in extremely slow transfer speeds - ...

I'v got a relatively new ASUS n56u router. I turned on logging of dropped packets the other day and notice that a couple times a minute there are dropped packets being logged from IP addresses I don't ...

This relatively unknown term can be the reason why your internet feels slow.

Cisco routers use buffers as blocks of memory to handle data during the network routing process. As data flows through a network, different rates of transmission occur between routers and network ...

There’s a dreaded disease that’s plagued Internet Service Providers for years. OK, there’s probably several diseases, but today we’re talking about bufferbloat. What it is, how to test for it, and ...

In many households today, broadband Internet connections are used not only for e-mail and Web browsing, but also to stream music and video, play online games and/or perhaps make voice calls using a ...

In the last two newsletters (see here and here) we commented on the fact that data replication was significantly different than other data applications and that it could be negatively impacted by ...