Short connection? Then you only need to own a Fritz!Box from AVM and operate it in Deutsche Telekom’s fiber optic network (FTTH). If you then call a mobile phone number and want to talk a little longer, you will lose relatively quickly. Or rather, after just two minutes and one second. Because that’s when the connection is lost and you [...]
The French company nPerf, based in Lyon, has a worldwide server network that is also optimized to measure your connection speed precisely. We have included the GUI ourselves on our homepage and have been using this service for our readers for years. Today’s study is based on tests conducted by users of the nPerf mobile app, which is [...]
You would think that Windows 11 automatically includes at least the most important standard drivers. The WLAN is active and there might even be an Ethernet cable in the LAN port. You feel well prepared and then you get to a point where you really wonder if they smoked some special weed in Redmond. I have rarely seen so much stupid ignorance and [...]
I’m sure I don’t need to describe a router any further, because everyone knows that the Internet doesn’t just come out of the wall socket, but also needs to be distributed throughout the home in a manner that is as latency-free and high-bandwidth as possible. Since Wi-Fi 6E now enables real tri-band routers that can generate a [...]
Last week, Microsoft released a security patch for Windows 11, which, in addition to some annoying interventions in the system (e.g. network detection was deactivated without being asked), also caused a system with an active Microsoft account, which relies on the PIN for authentication in the start screen, to discard exactly this PIN when changing [...]
Is Wi-Fi 6 now the panacea for poor WLAN reception? No, but it can certainly actively support the therapy. You can’t reinvent physics, but you can harness it. It’s been almost 3 years since I set up a Wi-Fi 5 network over two floors here in the lab and also published a longer article about it. If you’re lucky enough to have a [...]
I admit it, I’ve been putting off the topic of Wi-Fi 6 for ages. But in the meantime, in addition to the appropriate smartphones, I also own several clients that can use Wi-Fi 6, but are not allowed to, because my good old Fritz!Box 7590 does not allow this. And I have long considered whether I do not separate once between business and [...]
It was around midnight an not the first time (and will certainly not be the last time), but a DDos attack is always less beautiful (but superfluous as a crop), no matter how elaborate and extensive it has now taken place. However, I go for 2 years, despite a powerful Epyc server and a redundant connection in the data center, the somewhat safer way [...]
First of all, I would like to thank some colleagues who really amazed me via Messenger and Tweet with this interesting piece of Twitter reading and which I would also like to share with you. Because one thing is also clear: cryptographic currency scams are almost as old as digital tokens themselves, but the most recent incident is still one for [...]
Google is cutting its marketing budget for the second half of 2020 by up to 50 percent, according to audited internal documents, according to CNBC. This development only clearly shows that even the largest and highest rated companies are not immune to the devastating effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a further move, Google informed [...]
2K Games is now the next publisher to remove its entire range of games from GeForce NOW, the cloud streaming service introduced by NVIDIA last month after several years of beta. As usual, NVIDIA provided the news about the GeForce NOW forums. However, the community representative also said talks are underway with 2K Games to get the company back [...]
Less is more? At least with Wi-Fi, none of this applies and anyone who, like me, has his rooms in an old, listed house, can never have enough. Also in the case of technology. Of course, it is precisely with this that an enormous amount of money can be sunk, and it is therefore all the more important to be targeted. That's why I want to give [...]
A symantec blog post this week revealed that China's spy group Buckeye used the NSA's "Double Pulsar" and "Eternal Blue" exploit at least a year before the Shadow Brokers group was released. Symantec believes that Buckeye may also have been able to examine the NSA's tools during an NSA attack, which allowed him to [...]
Together with nPerf SAS from France, we now offer our readers a very special service: a real speed test for your Internet connections! But not only that, because nPerf does not require the installation of any plugins or Flash, but also offers statistics, the possibility to record your measurements statistically and much more. We have therefore [...]
As you know, I went more or less voluntarily to the YouTubers, even though I don't actually stream games, but "only" have to make sure that the HDMI signals of my cameras get to the workstation as latency and loss-free as possible. With up to three cameras, an equipment can become quite expensive quite quickly, which also includes [...]
On 23.11.2018 Telekom, together with the obligatory media frenzy with RTL (broadcast station 190), released the first UHD television station - provided the appropriate tariff and the appropriate end device. Only what was announced with a lot of effort, for many customers in the end probably only remained a thick PR bubble. We have simply tested [...]
Does anyone remember my first test of this bright orange online WiFi box, which you find as Skyroam Solis in well-stocked online retail? I mean, good friends like to forgive some weaknesses and also my little, faithful travel companion was not without. But at least so far, he has patiently and brazenly endured everything that an annoyed editor [...]
Update from 11/13/2018 Skyroam has now introduced the "Fair Use Policy", which also means that the much-feared throttle to 3G and slower after the used-up free transfer of 500 MB per day, is completely eliminated. It remains at 4G even if this limit has been significantly exceeded. I recently noticed that this works in San Francisco [...]
Since the 25th. The new General Data Protection Regulation will be implemented in Europe in May 2018 – with fewer warnings than previously feared. Nevertheless, German companies in particular are not yet able to breathe. Temporarily shut down websites, blocked media offers and thousands of consultations with lawyers and data protection authorities [...]
