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10 Linux commands for testing connectivity and transfer rates

Network World

Note that it is not at all uncommon for upload speeds to be considerably slower than download speeds. Internet providers understand that most people download considerably more data than they upload. In the test below, the download speed is nearly nine times the upload speed. ms jitter) Download: 10.34 MB) Upload: 1.00

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Internet traffic surges by 25% for second year in a row, average US download speed is 201 Mbps

TechSpot

Only a third of IPv6-capable requests worldwide were made over IPv6. Cloudflare's summary of findings for 2023 shows that nearly half of web requests used HTTP/2, with 20% using HTTP/3. In India, however, that share reached 70% Read Entire Article

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. If those false advertisements indicate that a better path is available than the legitimate path, traffic may be directed that way—only the path leads to malicious servers that could steal credentials, download malware, and execute other damaging activities.

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Network World’s Best of Enterprise Network 2024 award winners

Network World

Read on to meet the winners and finalists, or download the PDF edition below. focused on IPv6 support, plus enhanced integrations with ServiceNow and Cisco. Gluware delivers new features and enhancements to its platform several times a year. streamlined workloads; Gluware 5.2 added 40 major features, and Gluware 5.3

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A Tutorial For Enhancing Your Home DNS Protection

CTOvision

With certain types of DNS attacks an adversary can make you think you are going to a favorite website but can re-direct you to a bad one, perhaps to steal your login info or to download malicious code. Click either IPV4 or IPv6 and click properties. This is another very important reason to use a managed DNS service.

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What is 5G Technology: 5G Connectivity and Speed Explained

Galido

With the future 5G technology, you can achieve speed where we can download in a few seconds who in 4G would take minutes or even in 3G hours! 5G allows you to download multimedia files of about 800 MB in barely a second while with 4G we speak of an average of 30 seconds. Differences Between 4G and 5G? Mobile Generations.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Customers then use Amazon Cloud Player Web application to easily manage their music collections with download and stream options. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. APAC Summer Tour.

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