The UNIX ping command lets you test network servers and latency. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. The UNIX ping command is a tiny UNIX network tool that allows you to test your network, ...

Free VoIP Speed Testing: How to Evaluate Call Quality on Your Network Your email has been sent VoIP speed tests measure critical metrics (e.g., latency, jitter, packet loss, and mean opinion score) to ...

The selfhosting community is an interesting and useful part of the Internet dedicated to removing one’s own services and data from the cloud and hosting it on their own servers, often on hardware that ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

Videoconferencing has revealed to all of us how good—or poor—our Internet connections really are. However, if you’re just loading Web pages or reading email, it’s unlikely you can get a sense of ...

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In this article, I examine low-latency services provided by streaming CDNs, removing actual vendor names and making conclusions based on delivery method. I’ll start with a discussion of the basics of ...

Japan’s SoftBank worked with Ericsson’s in-country division and Qualcomm on a network trial that used a handful of 5G ...

Nothing strips the cloud’s ethereal aura like networking, laying bare its physical limitations and vagaries. When it comes to moving data to and from cloud infrastructure, all the technology Google, ...

South Africa’s mobile network operators all have excellent average latency and jitter, according to data collected using the MyBroadband Speed Test app. Telkom recorded the best average latency, while ...