document.write('<table bgcolor="black" width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="border table"><tr><td><table style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"><tr><td width="99%" bgcolor="white" align="left"><font color="black"><b>About Wireless / Networking</b></font></td><td width="1%" bgcolor="white" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/02/05/google-dns-vs-opendns.htm" target="_blank">Google DNS vs OpenDNS</a><br>On 3 December 2009, Google launched its Public DNS service. <i>Google Public DNS</i> is a free Internet name resolution service similar to the free version of OpenDNS. Both Google DNS and OpenDNS are designed to speed up and help secure the Web browsing experience by leveraging a fast worldwide network of DNS servers.  <p>What\'s the difference between these two services? As of now, OpenDNS is the more established product, having existed for four more years than Google\'s and offering more options for setup and control. Which one is faster, or more secure, can be debated. The primary and secondary public IP addresses of each differ, obviously:</p>  OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220<br /> Google DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4<br /><br />  &#8594; <b>See also</b> - What Is DNS?<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Google DNS vs OpenDNS originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 23:03:32.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/02/03/bandwidth-requirements-for-the-super-bowl.htm" target="_blank">Bandwidth Requirements for the Super Bowl</a><br><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/compnetworking/1/0/2/c/96466405-blog.png\" alt=\"Super Bowl XLIV - Miami, FL\" title=\"Photo courtesy Elsa / Getty Images\" style=\"border:0; float:right; margin-left:1em\">  [via dailywireless.org] - How much network bandwidth does it take to transmit high definition video of a world famous event? If you said 1.5 Gbps, you have correctly pegged the size of the feed Level 3 Communications plans to deliver for Super Bowl 44. The broadcast of Super Bowls in previous years required compression at the site before uploading to the broadcasting station, but this time Level 3 expects their fiber optic cables to handle the real-time stream uncompressed, enabling a higher quality broadcast. Impressive. <br /> &#8594; <b>More</b> - First-Ever Uncompressed High-Definition Feed for Super Bowl (businesswire.com)<br /> &#8594; <b>More</b> - Level 3 and Super Bowl XLIV (level3.com)  <br /><br /> <font size=\"-2\"><i>Super Bowl XLIV (Miami, FL)  - Photo: Elsa / Getty Images</i></font> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Bandwidth Requirements for the Super Bowl originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 02:13:58.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/02/01/discuss-changing-your-public-ip-address.htm" target="_blank">DISCUSS: Changing Your Public IP Address</a><br>Doug, one of our readers, can no longer send email from his computer. After some troubleshooting, he has isolated the problem. \"Turns out that my IP address has been blacklisted, but not my fault. The ipconfig/release and renew commands do not change the IP address.\"  <p>\"Are these the only ways to get a new IP address, being 1) get a static address, 2) shut down the network for a week or 72 hours, or 3) change ISPs?\" Is there any better solution to Doug\'s problem?</p>  &#8594; <b>Discuss</b> - Changing Your Public IP Address<br /> &#8594; <b>See also</b> - How to Change Your IP Address<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">DISCUSS: Changing Your Public IP Address originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 01:55:01.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/30/99-percent-of-bittorrent-files-illegal.htm" target="_blank">99% of the Files Available on BitTorrent - Illegal?</a><br>A Princeton undergrad and his advising professor recently published the results of their survey on BitTorrent file sharing. ArsTechnica claims the majority of files being shared over BitTorrent are movies and music that are likely being shared illegally, and the data from Sauhard Sahi indeed seems to confirm that. It\'s too bad we can\'t find more productive uses for such excellent P2P network technology than just (mostly) pirating stuff. <br /> &#8594; <b>More</b> - Census of Files Available via BitTorrent<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">99% of the Files Available on BitTorrent - Illegal? originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 22:51:41.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/28/apple-ipad-wifi-and-3g-price.htm" target="_blank">The New Apple iPad - Wi-Fi + 3G, For a Price</a><br><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/compnetworking/1/0/1/c/96213595-blog.png\" alt=\"Apple iPad Announced (January 2010)\" title=\"Photo courtesy Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\" style=\"border:0; float:right; margin-left:1em\">  The Internet was abuzz this week with Apple\'s announcement of its new <i>iPad</i>. A tablet device that can work as both an ebook reader and also a netbook-like computer, the Apple iPad runs iPhone OS rather than Mac OS X. No surprise, then, that it supports both 802.11n Wi-Fi and <i>3G</i> (cellular) wireless networking. Its price may still surprise you, though (hint: you cannot get full wireless support for USD $499).   Read more...<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">The New Apple iPad - Wi-Fi + 3G, For a Price originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 15:53:22.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/24/building-computer-networks-to-help-haiti.htm" target="_blank">Building Networks to Help Haiti</a><br><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/compnetworking/1/0/0/c/96149123-blog.png\" alt=\"Thousands of Haiti Earthquake Victims Still Displaced (24 January 2010)\" title=\"Photo courtesy Getty Images\" style=\"border:0; float:right; margin-left:1em\">  Like many, I\'m deeply saddened to see the tragic devastation and loss of life from the recent earthquakes in Haiti. It\'s also quite distressing to hear the allegations that United Nations relief crews enjoy luxuries such as Wi-Fi and beer while too many Haitians are apparently still not receiving sufficient aid. Wireless technology is essential to coordinating large-scale efforts such as this. Let us hope that government agencies, corporations and non-profit organizations such as Inveneo are better using it than the Daily Mail article suggests. Do you have any positive stories to share from Haiti? <br /> &#8594; <b>See also</b> - Expanding Haiti WiFi Network Impact with CrisisCamp DC (inveneo.org)  <br /><br /> <font size=\"-2\"><i>Thousands of Haiti Earthquake Victims Still Displaced - Photo: Getty Images</i></font><p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Building Networks to Help Haiti originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 23:16:50.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/22/kindle-dx-gets-global-wireless.htm" target="_blank">Kindle DX Gets Global Wireless</a><br><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/compnetworking/1/0/-/c/86435885-blog.png\" alt=\"Amazon Kindle DX Introduced (May 2009)\" title=\"Photo courtesy Spencer Platt / Getty Images\" style=\"border:0; float:right; margin-left:1em\">  The Amazon Kindle DX with \"global wireless\" support, recently announced at CES 2010, is now shipping. Until this week, the DX only worked with cellular services in the U.S. Now the DX like the smaller Kindle can work with 3G carriers internationally. While Kindle was one of the first families of ebook reader, it faces strong competition from other products, and the addition of better wireless connectivity is a good selling point. <br /> &#8594; <b>More</b> - Amazon\'s Kindle DX Goes Global<br /> &#8594; <b>See also</b> - Types of Wireless Internet Service<br /> &#8594; <b>See also</b> - Kindle 2.3 Software Update (portables.about.com)  <br /><br /> <font size=\"-2\"><i>Amazon Kindle DX  - Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty Images</i></font><p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Kindle DX Gets Global Wireless originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 13:28:13.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/20/discuss-very-large-home-networks.htm" target="_blank">DISCUSS: Very Large Home Networks (a.k.a. House O\' Torrents)</a><br><p>\"<i>... In total it\'s 12 rooms with 14 laptops and 6 desktops... We would like to just provide each room with a WIRED LAN/Cat5 internet connection, and if they want Wi-Fi, they get their own router. Question is how should this be... [configured]?</i>\"</p>  One of our readers from the Netherlands has moved into a communal living group with 20 computers sharing a single home network. This house full of BitTorrent fans need help in scaling up their network: Their 25 Mbps (!) Internet connection isn\'t quite cutting it apparently. Short of taking shifts at getting online or kicking their torrent habit, what would you do in this situation?  <br /> &#8594; <b>Discuss</b> - Very Large Home Networks<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">DISCUSS: Very Large Home Networks (a.k.a. House O\' Torrents) originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 02:41:40.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/16/did-this-network-flaw-expose-your-facebook-account.htm" target="_blank">Did This Network Flaw Expose Your Facebook Account?</a><br><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/compnetworking/1/0/y/b/85595219-blog.png\" alt=\"Facebook on a Mobile Phone (London, UK)\" title=\"Photo courtesy Dan Kitwood / Getty Images\" style=\"border:0; float:right; margin-left:1em;\" />  Several recent incidents suggest the AT&#038;T cellular network may have experienced a routing problem that delivered the Web cookies of some Facebook users to other people\'s phones. That\'s the conclusion from an Associated Press piece detailing the experience of a few folks who logged into Facebook only to find themselves inside the account of someone else with full access. Scary? You bet. Impossible? Nope. <br /> &#8594; <b>More</b> - Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error (sfgate.com)  <br /><br /> <font size=\"-2\"><i>Facebook on a Mobile Phone (London, UK) - Photo courtesy Dan Kitwood / Getty Images</i></font><p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Did This Network Flaw Expose Your Facebook Account? originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 22:16:57.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white"><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/b/2010/01/16/what-700-mhz-wireless-means-to-you.htm" target="_blank">What 700 MHz Wireless Means to You</a><br>Numerous news outlets are reporting that 700 MHz wireless microphones can no longer be sold in the U.S. per order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). An FCC ban on use of these microphones starts in June. These changes will keep the 700 MHz portion of wireless airspace open for mobile broadband and other communication services from providers like Verizon and AT&#038;T (who own rights to much of it).  <p>Television watchers in the U.S. previously enjoyed 700 MHz communications in the form of standard broadcast (UHF) channels 52 through 69. With the switch to digital television last year, the space is free except for wireless microphones. Typical owners of 700 MHz microphones are establishments that run wireless intercoms and public address systems, like churches. They may not actually be prosecuted or fined for continuing to use those microphones but, sooner or later, interference from the new national wireless services will take over their airwaves.</p>  &#8594; <b>See also</b> - FCC Tells Wireless Mics to Get off 700MHz Spectrum Band (pcworld.com)<p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">What 700 MHz Wireless Means to You originally appeared on About.com Wireless / Networking on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 19:11:04.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="white"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/" title="rss viewer"><font color="black">powered by feedroll</font></a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>');