It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the ...

I recently sat through a presentation where an analyst said that 802.11n wouldn’t be that successful because it offers on the order of 100Mbit/sec., and “no one needs that kind of performance.” I ...

Okay, I have some basic networking knowledge, not as much as most of you, but enough.<BR><BR>Now, I used to understand the throughput issue back when there were 56K modems, but with the advent of DSL ...

There was an interesting discussion over in one of the Cisco forums on how to calculate your WAN speed. Those of you who read my last post know that packet loss, latency, and bandwidth all play into ...