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...making a phone call, but this time was different. I was placing my first video phone call over the Internet. Although video chatting online has been possible for years, it has not been very practical. That's because most people used dial-up modems, which don't have enough bandwidth to transmit video well. But now that more than a third of all Internet users have DSL or cable-modem connections, online video quality is finally up to snuff, if not exactly Emmy worthy. There's also a low-cost program that makes video chatting simpler than ever...
...worldwide, exceeding 90,000 downloads a day at one point and reaching viewers in Asia, Africa and South America. “Duke’s Office of Information Technology sent us an e-mail saying that we were melting the servers and that they had to cap the bandwidth usage,” says Chavez...
...sure, wi-fi doesn't make sense for every employee. iAnywhere didn't try to replace its wired network entirely, says CEO Terry Stepien. Some of its engineers need even more bandwidth than the fastest wi-fi networks can support, and the tech-support staff need desks with phone lines, so they don't use wireless laptops. (Eventually, some of them will be able to work wirelessly, using an Internet phone system instead of a regular phone...
...more in-depth info about wi-fi home networking--including ways to lock out snoops and bandwidth thieves--check out the FAQs at www.time.com/wireless
...been highly guarded by record companies since the high-quality music downloads compete with CDs—it was thought that this system would have satisfied all. The elegant setup might have allowed MIT to simultaneously keep students and record labels satisfied while mimizing the amount of network bandwidth used by illegal music downloads...