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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog News from Nature: researchers at Stanford have found what is being widely trailed as 'the speed limit of hard disks'. So it's not really a speed limit at all: it's just some interesting phenomenon that happens when you push today's technology to...
[April 23, 2004, 17:50]
Plusnet Broadband Woes & Lies
Forum When you go beyond this limit your service is throttled to the same speed as P2P downloading - which is incredibly slow. And there is an ultimate download limit of 6GB. Meaning you dont get a full speed broadband service for P2P.
[January 22, 2006, 10:25]
Vodafone To Launch HSDPA
News There is also a £45 "unlimited" package with a 1GB limit, which at full specified speed can be reached in around an hour and a half. Use above that limit may trigger a variety of responses from Vodafone according to its "reasonable opinion...
[June 21, 2006, 10:55]
BT Hits New Broadband Heights
News In August BT put an end to the line length limit that once meant potential customers couldn't sign up for broadband if they were more than 6km from their local exchange. However, Bulldog's fastest services have been restricted to urban areas, while...
[November 4, 2004, 14:48]
Berners-Lee: Keep The Internet Free
News Is that not the equivalent of having the speed limit but no enforcement of the speed limit? Berners-Lee suggested closed DRM regimes were akin to enforcing a speed limit by requiring the offending car to "grind to a halt" and added, "I am inclined...
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
XG Update
Blog Furthermore, there are some cogent, convincing and unanswered questions from wireless experts over how xG can physically do the things that are claimed - in particular, and as I've said before, there's a thing called the Shannon Limit which is...
[October 8, 2007, 10:24]
Buses, Bottlenecks And Speed
News However, the current limit of the ATA bus is due to the fewer drives per controller and the speed of IDE hard drives. This can obviously cause performance problems, but it allows more devices to be connected to the system up to the limit of serial...
[September 24, 2002, 8:21]
NTL Moves To Calm Broadband Limit Fury
News Aizad Hussain, managing director of the NTL:home service, explained that NTL was bringing in a limit on the amount of data its broadband customers could download in an attempt to maintain a decent service for all users.
[February 10, 2003, 16:46]
What Happens If You Breach Mobile Data 'fair Usage'?
News Vodafone's spokesperson conceded that, with the introduction of the new high-speed service, the company would "be looking at usage and see if the fair usage limit is the right one". T-Mobile, which has a larger limit of 2GB, threatens those who go...
[June 26, 2006, 11:15]
BT Breaks £20 Threshold For ADSL - With Limits
News BT Broadband Basic will offer a 512Kbps connection, the same as the more costly BT Broadband and BT Yahoo Broadband, but will introduce a usage limit of 1GB per month. Besides the 1GB limit, the service has a number of limitations that could make...
[March 1, 2004, 9:40]
XG, XMax, Xetera...
Blog This limit isn't something that can be circumvented by cleverness, any more than the speed of light can be broken by a particularly ornate sort of rocket. That graph shows that xG is within the Shannon limit (how could it not be?
[August 16, 2007, 19:12]
BT Pauses Its SDSL Rollout: Is There An Heir Apparent In BT Max?
News BT Max is a wholesale ADSL product which runs a line to its technical limit. Although 8Mbps is vanilla ADSL's downstream bandwidth limit, BT Max's alpha trial (of 500 users) found that over half of the lines ran at around 6Mbps due to line quality...
[September 6, 2005, 12:40]
The Dangers Of Zealotry In Development
News Speaking only one technology language can limit you to one way of thinking. Similarly, the frameworks behind the major software development technologies carry with them a certain set of conceptual predispositions, and blind adherence to these...
[May 19, 2005, 11:20]
Facing The Security Risks Of Cable Modems
News Limit installed services Employ NAT to limit your vulnerabilities Obviously, broadband's high speed comes with some serious downsides. One final but significant vulnerability is the speed that makes broadband so attractive to users.
[July 8, 2002, 16:10]
Faster Routing: 12400 Series Internet Routers
White Papers This archived Webcast from Cisco Systems tackles the issue of faster routers and how enterprises can benefit from pushing their technology's speed limit to the maximum.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
GPSAuto
Downloads You can use GPSAuto in your automobile (car) for accurate measuring (based on GPS system) of actual speed and getting warning when crossing speed limit (speed limits as well as many other parameters are fully configurable).
[October 11, 2006, 4:16]
CD Speed
Downloads CD Speed can set the maximum data transfer rate of your CD-ROM drive and limit compact disk rotation speed. CD Speed is a tool to improve CD reading reliability, lower read noise, and extend your CD-ROM drive lifetime.
[November 1, 2002, 6:11]
KSSWare Extended IP Filter & Monitor
Downloads HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MP3, AVI, RAR, ZIP, EXE, JPEG, and PNG) and can filter any IP, UDP, TCP (including speed limit), ICQ (by UIN), and ICMP packets using standard Windows filtering functions. Also this program can monitor IP traffic (source address...
[April 21, 2007, 16:01]
BT Doubles Business Broadband Speeds, For Free
Talkback Is this going to be like all the other broadband services where they double your connection speed but dump a horrible data limit on you?
[September 30, 2004, 10:40]
HP Doubles Up On Madison
White Papers processors that run at a reduced clock speed to limit power consumption and heat production. This paper talks about the HP mx2 dual processor module (codenamed ? Hondo? The HP mx2 module? s CPU horsepower comes from two second-generation Itanium 2 ?
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
