Like all good heavyweight encounters, this one follows a bitter war of words in the press and a lot of confusing and unnecessary delays. Instead of the delay which users get with circuit switched data while logging on to the network, they should be...
However, as delays have shown, the introduction of 3G is not as easy as some were expecting. One of its recent demonstrations featured video, scores and team statistics of NBA championship games beamed to Compaq IPAQs running PocketPC on a wireless...
The parameter, normally set by the operating system, can make a network more reliable, if set to a lower number of bytes, or faster when long delays are present, if set to a high number of bytes. The only problem with the traffic was that its...
An IP packet is formed when a router chops up a stream of digital information into manageable chunks. After looking up the packet's destination in the number's address tables, the router forwards the packet to the next router in the chain.
You can throw a huge amount of junk at the router but quality of service lets you carry on without dropping any voice packets. VoIP has many upsides but moving your telephony system to a packet-based network could leave you at the mercy of hackers.
Instead Plumpton finds herself constantly checking that all the motorway signage is giving out the correct information on queues and delays - and makes sure her colleagues know about it as soon as she gets into work if anything is wrong.