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AirCell Tests Ground-to-Air BandwidthAirCell Tests Ground-to-Air BandwidthAirCell Tests Ground-to-Air Bandwidth 07/07/2004 02:37 PM AirCell says it successfully showed broadband speeds on an airplane uses ground-to-air communication: AirCell reports average speeds of 300 to 500 Kpbs, and peaks of 2.4 Mbps. Their plan is to use a network of ground-based towers to offer cellular voice and data in planes with passengers using their own, existing cellular equipment. The test was with a business jet, but they say they looked at many parameters. The company says it is in discussions to offer the service commercially by next summer. Connexion by Boeing and Tenzing on focused on satellites to bring bandwidth to planes, but AirCell and Sky Way (which has a more Homeland Security oriented business) are using ground towers pointing at the air. It could wind up being substantially less expensive if they can get the frequencies and the sites, especially if they can backhaul bandwidth to the ground towers wirelessly. [link via Daily Wireless]... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)AirCell Tests Ground-to-Air BandwidthGrok Headline matches for AirCell Tests Ground-to-Air BandwidthRSS Comes with Bandwidth Price TagRSS Comes with Bandwidth Price Tag 09/20/2004 10:46 PM As XML syndication grows in popularity, feed publishers are discovering unintended and unfortunate consequences: hits on bandwidth and scouring for solutions. Bandwidth vs StorageBandwidth vs Storage 09/16/2004 11:14 AM My discussion on the bandwidth versus storage versus quality debate on PaidContent.org. Cutting Bandwidth NeedsCutting Bandwidth Needs 12/07/2002 09:31 AM "...suggestions for cutting bandwidth, particularly in a mostly text-based environment?" Bandwidth Monitor NG 0.1Bandwidth Monitor NG 0.1 09/07/2004 08:21 AM A simple bandwidth monitor for Linux or other systems with /proc/net/dev. What RSS Bandwidth Problem?What RSS Bandwidth Problem? 02/05/2005 10:12 PM The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won't frickin' die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way... I Shall Fear No BandwidthI Shall Fear No Bandwidth 03/08/2004 11:15 PM Church offers Wi-Fi for reading scripture commentary, comparing texts, and following sports scores: It sounds like a parody at first, a church providing Wi-Fi access throughout the building, but Richard Tallent makes a good case for combining technology with religious practice. It's not quite the parable of the prodigal son, but he notes that it's the folks who are hardest to reach who are the ones who should have the most outreach to bring them in. He also provides a link to Acts which describes a listener to Paul who fell asleep and out an open window while he was preaching. There is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes). [via Robert Scoble]... The Bandwidth Math on RSSThe Bandwidth Math on RSS 09/10/2004 07:27 AM Scoble's math radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/09/08.html#a8200 Bandwidth to spare?Bandwidth to spare? 08/02/2004 08:26 PM It has been some time since we last asked for more mirrors. It is time to do so again. Fink is very grateful for the resources granted to us by our community. To further improve our service to the community we require an even better mirror system. We especially lack mirrors in central Europe, Russia and the Far East. If you feel that you have at least two Mbit to spare for a rsync mirror or more to offer a distfiles mirror please contact us. To get a better understanding of the different types of mirrors Fink offers, please go and review finkmirrors.net. This is the official homepage for all mirror related issues. If you feel that you can offer other types of resources, web-space for testing as an example, please do not hestitate in contacting us as well. Bandwidth ManagerBandwidth Manager 03/30/2005 05:26 PM Welcome to Bandwidth Manager! Bandwidth Monitor NG 0.3Bandwidth Monitor NG 0.3 09/16/2004 02:01 AM A simple bandwidth monitor for Linux or other systems with /proc/net/dev. More on RSS bandwidth consumptionMore on RSS bandwidth consumption 07/21/2004 11:02 AM A few months back I wrote about RSS bandwidth consumption, and this subject is again in the news following Chad Dickerson's recent InfoWorld column about his love/hate relationship with RSS. Dickerson notes that desktop RSS readers which hit a feed too frequently - and then download the feed even when it hasn't changed - are resulting in a huge server load. However, as Dare Obasanjo points out, many of those complaining about RSS bandwidth consumption fail to configure their own servers to address the problem. Dare shows that InfoWorld's feed supports neither GZip encoding nor conditional HTTP Get, both of which would dramatically decrease RSS bandwidth consumption. The latest RSS reader stats show that all the major ones support these techniques, so make sure your server (and/or the feed itself) supports these techniques. If you have a static feed, chances are your server handles this for you - but if you have a dynamic feed (i.e.: one created on-the-fly with PHP or ASP), you may need to make some changes. In the past, raising this topic has been followed by naive calls to stop using desktop RSS readers in favor of web-based applications, since web-based aggregators consume less bandwidth. I'm far too biased to argue about desktop vs. web aggregators, but the argument is moot since many people find the UI and feature set of web-based apps too limiting for their needs and will always want a desktop application (witness Outlook vs. HotMail). Arguing for either type of application is pointless, since each will be around for a long time. BTW, I'm glad to see that Sam Ruby is proposing updating the Atom spec and the feed validator to support HTTP conditional get. My guess is that a lot of bandwidth will be saved once the feed validator warns about feeds that don't take advantage the If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match HTTP headers. Oh, and since I mentioned RSS reader stats, I have to get this off my chest: server stats are not an accurate representation of the popularity of individual RSS readers. A number of RSS readers default to checking for updates every hour, whereas FeedDemon defaults to checking every three hours. So, three times as many people would need to use FeedDemon for it to be ranked equally with these other apps. Bandwidth roundtableBandwidth roundtable 07/26/2004 08:39 AM Leading figures from the worlds of business, labor and technology give their insights into broadband policy. She used up all my darned bandwidth!She used up all my darned bandwidth! 01/03/2005 03:08 AM Xeni Jardin: 
Those being the words of Michael
Verdi -- father of "Youngest Videoblogger In the World" Dylan Verdi, who was
featured in
last week's ABC News segment about bloggers as "People of The
Year." Mr. Verdi has just posted this short "the making of" movie
which explains how his 11-year-old daughter became an accidental
pheblogenomenon in the span of 24 hours last week. Hey, the kid's
gotta be alright -- she's listening to the same record I was at
eleven, and on vinyl too.
Link to
Michael Verdi's QuickTime movie, and
Link to video of last week's ABC News segment. (Thanks,
Wonbo!) From the GroundFrom the Ground 08/21/2004 04:22 PM incredibly fascinating blog .. From the Ground confutus2.blogspot.com Internap Divvies Up the BandwidthInternap Divvies Up the Bandwidth 05/12/2004 12:52 PM Internap has updated its traffic routing products to include application-based policy options. Counting bandwidth usage in PHPCounting bandwidth usage in PHP 08/05/2004 03:48 AM Here's a question: is it possible, given a bunch of videofiles on your server, to keep track of bandwidth usage with PHP (+ Apache, Linux)? Maybe something like mod_throttle/3.1.2 can help? I am thinking through different ways of dynamically generating different SMIL files (with PHP) based on how much ... Optimizing Bandwidth at MicrosoftOptimizing Bandwidth at Microsoft 06/29/2004 11:39 PM To successfully manage wide area network demand and escalating operating costs at Microsoft, Microsoft IT assembled a small, dedicated team, tasked with identifying and implementing ways to improve engineering, operating, and management efficiencies for overall bandwidth consumption. Their goals were to increase network efficiency by 12 percent and reduce costs by nine percent. Through strategies such as the rigorous auditing of existing bandwidth usage, and more accurate forecasting of future bandwidth needs, existing capacity was utilized more efficiently and costs reduced. ok0n's Bandwidth Manager 1ok0n's Bandwidth Manager 1 04/18/2004 07:13 AM An easy to use bandwidth manager for middle-sized ISPs. Cutting that old Bandwidth BloatCutting that old Bandwidth Bloat 05/05/2004 10:46 PM "Does anyone have more suggestions of things I can do to shave off more bandwidth? Anything I'm maybe overlooking right now that I could be doing?" Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 7.32Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 7.32 12/03/2003 01:22 PM A turn-key tool to distribute bandwidth on busy networks. Bandwidth Vs Latency TimingsBandwidth Vs Latency Timings 11/13/2003 06:30 AM RSS readers and bandwidth consumptionRSS readers and bandwidth consumption 05/04/2004 12:32 PM Wired recently asked wh ether RSS readers will clog the Web, raising concerns about bandwidth problems associated with RSS. While these concerns are valid, they're really less about RSS and more about the poor design of some RSS readers. So, I'd like to point out how FeedDemon was designed to minimize bandwidth consumption. The primary concern is how often RSS readers download feeds to
check for new items. After all, if a feed is updated once a day,
there's a huge waste of bandwidth if RSS readers are downloading the
feed every few minutes. However, a well-designed RSS reader won't
download the entire feed if it hasn't been modified - instead, it will
do as FeedDemon does and utilize HTTP If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match (ETag) requests. If the feed hasn't changed, then
the server simply returns a FeedDemon honors the RSS <ttl> element, which enables feed authors to state how often the feed should be updated. FeedDemon won't allow setting a feed's update frequency lower than the <ttl>, so be sure to use this element in your feed if you're concerned about unnecessary bandwidth consumption. In addition, FeedDemon honors the <sk ipdays> and <skiphours> elements. And I should add that FeedDemon defaults to checking for updates every three hours, not every few minutes. Users can set the update frequency lower than this (provided it's not lower than the feed's <ttl>), but in my experience, few users actually do this. So, while RSS bandwidth consumption is a valid concern, it's a concern that I addressed from the very start when designing FeedDemon. MemoryLink Displays Bandwidth-in-a-BoxMemoryLink Displays Bandwidth-in-a-Box 04/07/2005 05:39 PM MemoryLink's new secure, high-bandwidth portable video system makes its U.S. debut at the ISC West security conference in Las Vegas. BT introducing bandwidth limitsBT introducing bandwidth limits 07/06/2004 06:29 AM Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 8.24Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 8.24 06/25/2004 10:32 AM A turn-key tool to distribute bandwidth on busy networks. Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth
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