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Sorry that there was nothing new posted today, but I spent all day grinding through the Cheap Draft 802.11n Router Roundup that will go up sometime Friday.

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Doug Reid

Measuring Network Performance – Jperf and TCP, Part 2

Having introduced Iperf and Jperf, as well as covering details on TCP throughput tests by adjusting Window Size values, it's time to complete this series with comments on adjusting MSS and Buffer Length values. I'm also going to touch on using the results of Jperf testing to make changes to a PC to improve network performance.

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Fanny Mlinarsky

IEEE 802 Wireless Meeting Summary – July 2007

• 802.11-2007 Edition of the standard incorporating 802.11a, b, c, d, e, g, h, i and j was published in June of 2007. The following 9 amendments to this edition are now in progress: 802.11k, n, p, r, s, u, v, w and y.

• 802.11k – Radio Resource Measurement – has been forwarded to sponsor ballot; final approval expected December 2007

• 802.11n – High Throughput – 3076 comments received on draft 2 with 1594 technical comments; 1200 technical comments remain to be resolved; expect draft 3.0 to be approved in the September 2007 interim meeting; final approval expected at the end of 2008

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Craig Ellison

The Hidden Gotcha of VoIP phones

Sometimes you just need an operator. It's not often, but there are services that a real, live operator can perform that you just don't get when you subscribe to one of the popular VOIP services such as Vonage. Of course, you're not gong to make collect calls from your VOIP line, and international calls likewise need no operator intervention.Â But what happens if you need to check the status of a line? That was the scenario I recently faced.

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