Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...

There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the "improper" use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled ...

I "phoned" my cousin Bob in Southern California the other day. Except, there wasn't any phone: just two PCs linked to the Internet via broadband cable connections. I had plugged a Plantronics headset ...

The fundamental technology underpinning the internet is called packet-switching. And Donald Davies was the first one to call it that. In the mid-1960s, Davies was a researcher with Britain's National ...

A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

Exploring the evolution of information technology highlights intriguing similarities between the internet's core transmission unit, the packet, and the token, which is fundamental to today's AI-driven ...

Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet ...

Running speed tests didn't reveal anything, and latency looked perfectly fine, too. But it was doing ping tests and ...

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