While I think about whether to upgrade to Windows 8 these are the things I’ll be looking for in my test installation: Ease of install, “Learn-ability”, Ease of use, Security/Privacy, Networking, Compatibility with older programs. By now pretty well everyone knows that Windows 8 is available for sale. Microsoft is touting this new version of ...
Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want ...
Unique game-day requirements of a professional football team call for a unique internet solution. Bonding multiple cable services meets their high data (video) upload demands much quicker, and at a much lower cost, than comparable Fibre services. ...
I have some exciting news to share in this month’s blog post. Telus has recently made available new tools that help us manage our clients’ ADSL connections. While the standard ADSL limitations remain we can now reset and play with port settings to achieve best performance possible from your ADSL connection. What used to involve ...
In part one of this series I discussed network congestion inside a private network and in part two, congestion across the Internet. In this month’s installment I will discuss packet loss and the impact this has on network performance. What is “packet loss”? A packet is, to put it simply, an envelope of data. Let’s ...
Last month I wrote about how to test for and correct congestion on your local area network. Our next step in trying to determine where congestion might lie is to look outside your local network and use traceroute tools to find congestion points on the Internet. To do this we’ll use a few software tools which are ...
I’m about to start out on another one of my three part-blog posts. In the next couple months I will be looking at packet loss and Internet congestion but today we’ll start with the congestion that forms behind your internet connection – right there in your own network — and we’ll use an Internet Speed ...
Skyway West keeps a record of ADSL problems we have encountered over the years that were either stumpers or real mind benders. In this month’s blog post I would like to share one of those stories with you. For the record, this actually qualifies as both a stumper and a mind bender. The client was ...
In previous blog posts I discussed setting up email on iOS and Blackberry devices. We have now added instructions for Google Android devices to the Skyway West web site. As with Blackberry the problem in providing setup instructions is the multiple versions of the Android OS. Currently Android has two OS versions for phones and two ...
There’s a lot of unhappiness out there among companies that have jumped head-first into an IP-based phone system (VoIP), looking to save money and improve communications, only to discover the vision falls short. Let me tell you how this has come to be… Big Profits in Dial Tone? A short story… back in the day, ...
