March 23, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on FCC opens up more spectrum to keep mobile phones working during coronavirus pandemic
You may be worried about there being enough internet to go around thanks to the coronavirus pushing us into our homes, but mobile phones are also facing a potential bandwidth shortage. So the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AT&T, … Continue reading
January 23, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on 5G or faux G?
I am so, so tired of reading stories proclaiming the mobile wonders of the world of tomorrow. 5G will bring up 8K videos to our self-driving cars, and it will do it 100 times faster than 4G! Give me a … Continue reading
September 30, 2013
by sjvn01
0 comments
Once upon a time, 2007 to be exact, if you wanted to use the Web on your phone, you had access to only a limited subset of it via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) (PDF). Then along came the iPhone and … Continue reading
September 27, 2013
by sjvn01
0 comments
Ordinary users don’t have to worry about switching from the old-style IPv4 internet to IPv6 … yet. Businesses are another matter. Europe, the Middle East, and some of Central Asia ran out IPv4 addresses in 2012. The rest of Asia … Continue reading
August 27, 2013
by sjvn01
0 comments
Say good-bye to Internet’s narrowband yesterday of modems when a great connection could bring you the Internet at up to a breath-taking 53.6Kbps (Kilobits per second). Today, only 3 percent of U.S. Internet users are stuck at dial-up speeds. Better … Continue reading
February 17, 2013
by sjvn01
0 comments
OK, so here’s the good news. When Apple released iOS 6.11 last week it did fix the problem some European phone users were having with 3G connections. The bad news is that iOS’s other network-related problems persist. Apple’s iOS 6.11 … Continue reading