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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, […]

On Wireless Standards

Since in my previous post I have talked about issues related to the deployment of WiFi networks, it is only fair if I step back a bit and provide some explanations about WiFi standards and how and why they are regulated.

Wireless standards are those related to the wireless communications in general, and in particular:

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