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Harvard tripled its computer network's bandwidth two weeks ago in response to greater network usage...
...Bandwidth pertains to the network's capacity to move traffic through the computer system. The increase will ensure the network's efficiency, officials said...
Davis would not say how HASCS was limiting network traffic, but a message from FAS Network Operations to the HASCS newsgroup yesterday said HASCS had placed restrictions "limiting the bandwidth of packets matching the signature of the Napster application...
...Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even in the mid-'90s, when faster computers and high-bandwidth connections to the Internet made it possible to seek and find MP3 files, ripping CDs was a tedious process...
...naive. Like a swing voter, I got sucked in by negative TV ads. When I moved to San Francisco in April, Pacific Bell was all over the airwaves with a spot that spoofed life in a cable-modem world, where neighbors have to share Internet bandwidth and end up fighting one another during prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed...