What Does Net Privacy Have to Do with Bandwidth Shaping?
I definitely understand the need for privacy. Obviously, if I was doing something nefarious, I wouldn’t want it known, but that’s not my reason. Day in and day out, measures are taken to maintain my...
View ArticleCommentary: Is IPv6 Heading Toward a Walled-Off Garden?
In a recent post we highlighted some of the media coverage regarding the imminent demise of the IPv4 address space. Subsequently, during a moment of introspection, I realized there is another angle to...
View ArticleHow to Block Frostwire, utorrent and Other P2P Protocols
Because in layer 7 shaping of p2p, speed of detection is everything. If you wait a few milliseconds too long to analyze and detect a torrent, it is already too late because the torrent has transferred...
View ArticleDoes your ISP restrict you from the public Internet?
By Art Reisman The term, walled off Garden, is the practice of a service provider locking you into their local content. A classic example of the walled off garden was exemplified by the early...
View ArticleInternet Regulation, what is the world coming to ?
A friend of mine just forwarded an article titled “How Net Neutrality Rules Could Undermine the Open Internet” Basically Net Neutrality advocates are now worried that bringing the FCC in to help...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Internet Name be Changed to CDSFBB (Content Delivery...
By Art Reisman – CTO – APconnections Okay, so I fabricated that headline, it’s not true, but I hope it goes viral and sends a message that our public Internet is being threatened by business interests...
View ArticleThe Internet, Free to the Highest Bidder.
It looks like the FCC has caved, “The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it would propose new rules that allow companies like Disney, Google or Netflix to pay Internet service...
View ArticleNet Neutrality must be preserved
As much as I hate to admit it, it seems a few of our Republican congressional leaders are “all in” on allowing large content providers to have privileged priority access on the Internet. Their goal for...
View ArticleNetEqualizer is Net Neutral, Packet Shaping is Not
The NetEqualizer has long been considered a net neutral appliance. Given the new net neutrality FCC regulations, upheld yesterday, I thought it would be good time to reiterate how the NetEqualizer...
View ArticleBandwidth Shaping Shake Up, Your Packet Shaper May be Obsolete?
A traffic classifier using Layer 7, cannot see inside HTTPS or a VPN tunnel, and thus it is essentially becomes a big expensive albatross with little value as the rate of encrypted traffic increases.
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