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Finding usernames through iTunes DAAP

Posted by John Adams on January 13th, 2009

Often on our local network, someone will start using up all of our outbound Internet bandwidth, and this leads to the network administrator’s dilemma:
How do we find the user in question so we can thump them on the head to make them stop?
This is a basic exercise in information gathering. For the most part, [...]

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Netgear fixes WGR3500 bandwidth issues, somewhat.

Posted by John Adams on January 10th, 2009

On this page, Netgear releases Firmware version 1.0.30 for the WNR3500 router. 
In my previous Apple Macbook Pro to Local network host (Mac Mini) testing, my top connection speed was around 2.4 Mbps. After the upgrade, it’s between 4.65Mbps and 7.5Mbps. Nothing near the promised speeds of 802.11N (300Mbit/sec), but I suspect that this is because [...]

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Network performance measurement

Posted by John Adams on November 23rd, 2008

After building a new gigabit network here, we wanted to know exactly what our performance was like. 
I turned to CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, which has long been a provider of excellent network performance tools. Their research focuses on developing tools to measure the Internet in many amazing ways, such as this map [...]

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