More stories

  • in

    These common home appliances can dramatically slow down your internet speed

    With unprecedented pressure on home internet connections because of work from home changes because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, UK’s communication regulator Ofcom has published a list of practical tips for improving the speed and reliability of your home network. Some of the tips are pretty obvious, such as testing your internet speeds regularly (I […] More

  • in

    Equinix opens fourth Singapore data centre

    Equinix has opened its fourth data centre in Singapore with an initial investment of $74 million, offering 4,220 square metres of colocation space. The fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) aims to support growing digital transformation efforts amongst businesses and increasing interconnectivity in the city-state. Called SG4, the new site is located in a country where […] More

  • in

    Peak evening demand still the network capacity challenge

    Image: Aussie Broadband One of the lovely things about local telco Aussie Broadband is that it publicly shows the capacity of its NBN customer network. A glance at its overall graphs for Australia, or individual states, reveal a nice cumulative snapshot of how a not insignificant player in the telco business has handled the impact […] More

  • in

    Plugable super-fast 2.5Gbps Ethernet adapter

    Working from home and finding that your Wi-Fi network just isn’t up to the task? Need a convenient way to connect to a wired network? Take a look at Plugable’s new 2.5Gbps Ethernet adapter. Yes, you read that right. 2.5Gbps. While most Ethernet adapters peak at 1 Gigabit transfer rates, the Plugable adapter now supports […] More

  • in

    COVID-19 has made network servers hard to find

    There’s hardly an aspect of life that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic hasn’t impacted. And one area of the IT world that is feeling the pinch in network servers. The rapid shutdown of the component supply chain in China has put a crimp in server availability. Heficed, a full-scope internet infrastructure provider headquartered in London, reports […] More

  • in

    Elon Musk's SpaceX: Now 1 million Starlink user terminals OKed for US internet service

    The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s application to roll out a million user terminals in the US to connect with its growing Starlink satellite broadband network.  The approval gives SpaceX a 15-year “blanket license for the operation of up to 1,000,000 fixed earth stations that will communicate with its non-geostationary orbit satellite system”. According […] More