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IP Addressing Explained (and a little history too)

What are IP addresses and how are they used? Let’s go through a high level overview and a little of history since their inception. […]

All My Operating Systems.

My very first computer was a mainframe IBM 360. Well, it wasn’t mine, nobody owned a computer back in the seventies. The 360 was the mainframe available at the university where I studied Electronics Engineering, the University of Palermo, in Italy. It ran under an operating system that was called DOS, an acronym for […]

Bandwidth or Throughput? What are they? What Should you look for?

Bandwidth and Throughput! There is a lot of confusion about these terms, what they mean, what you should care for.

Let’s try some definition first, and then let’s go into the details.

From the electrical perspective, Bandwidth is the max amount of frequency a cable can support without signal degradation. In the networking field, […]