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by Richard n Williams - 2008-07-08
Microsoft Windows has a built in time synchronisation facility called windows time (w32time.exe). Windows time is based on Network Time Protocol (NTP) an Internet protocol designed to synchronise com...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-07-07
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet standard protocol designed over 25 years ago and still under constant development. NTP synchronises devises on a network to a single timing source. If time ...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-07-07
It is a question that has perplexed philosophers and scientists since the dawn of man, ‘what exactly is time?' and it has only been in our recent history that we have started to discover answers, t...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-07-02
Computer time synchronisation is highly important in modern computer networks, precision and time synchronization is critical in many applications, particularly time sensitive transactions. Just imag...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-07-01
Precision and time synchronisation is highly important for modern computer networks, without synchronisation many time sensitive transactions would be impossible to carry out.The internal clock in co...
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by Colin Yao - 2008-06-29
In the last decade, a wide variety of applications have been developed that covers a dozen of datacom networking technologies. The transmission speed ranges from 10Mbits up to 10Gbit/s and growing.Hig...
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by Colin Yao - 2008-06-29
What happens if a major fiber optic cable is cut or a major hubbing location is destroyed in a fiber network? Will the whole system be brought down?That is the subject of this article: the survivabili...
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by Colin Yao - 2008-06-29
The structure of an optical receiver is simple: consisting of just a photodiode to produce the electrical current and an amplifier. But do not be fooled: it is far more complex to design a really high...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-06-25
Time has always been a fascination for mankind although it has only been recently, thanks to the work of Albert Einstein and others, have we have begun to understand exactly what it is.However, despi...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-06-25
Time synchronisation in modern computer networks is essential, all computers need to know the time as many applications, from sending an email to storing information are reliant on the PC knowing whe...
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by Richard n Williams - 2008-06-25
NTP servers (Network Time Protocol) are devices that can synchronise a computer network to an authoritative UTC time source. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is a global time scale used throughout th...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
How fast is your Internet service? Even if it is the fastest service that is currently available, such as broadband, high speed cable service, would you be surprises to learn that you can make it fast...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
For some people who use the Internet, speed is everything. For online competitive gamers, it can mean the difference between victory and defeat in close spit second calls. For business people, it mean...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
Just about anyone that uses a computer on the Internet can use a little more speed. This particularly holds true for anyone that still uses a standard dial up service for their Internet connection. Al...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
The fact is, that no matter what you do on the Internet, you can use more speed. Even online chatters and shoppers can use a boost of speed, so they can spend more time having fun and less time starri...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
For decades, young men and women across the U.S. and Canada have viewed their automobiles as an extension of their persona. Young men often preferred sleek, low slung, phallic vehicles with large tire...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
Make no mistake about it, speed is everything in this day and age. This fixation with speed has now transferred over to the Internet as well and it seems that nothing on the net now is ever fast enoug...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
Ever since the advent of the Internet and personal computers finding their way into homes around the globe, people have been talking about speed. Speed, as it pertains to a computer connected to the I...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
So you think that you have pretty fast Internet service. Are you truly happy with it? How fast is it? These are all questions that Internet users are frequently asking themselves more often for a numb...
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by Jamie Charlesten - 2008-06-25
It seems that some people are just never happy with the speed of anything. They approach their computers Internet speed the same way that a high school kid does his car, always wanting more. For other...