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common - comments - 7.3.2006
Choosing multiple files and folders has been possible in Windows for as long as I can remember. Hold the CTRL key and choose the files and/or folders. Pretty simple, but there has to be an easier way right? What's New in Vista - File Select Check Box
windows - comments - 1.6.2006Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
Ed Bott: I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it. But after upgrading a few machines here and
doing some tests, I changed my mind. If Microsoft’s decision to ditch the WGA kill switch in
SP1 didn’t convince you, would you be interested in a 300% increase in network file transfer speeds?
Forget the reports you
might have read about SP1 resulting in no performance boost. That story was based on a
silly artificial benchmark involving scripting of Office applications. Back here in the real world, where gigabit network connections are now
commonplace, you’ll see at least one huge improvement when transferring files over network connections.
In its original
release, Vista had some design problems with its networking stack, resulting in slow file transfers, especially when connecting to computers running
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Home Server (all three of these products share a great deal of their code base, including core networking
components). In Vista SP1, file transfer speeds are dramatically improved. In this post, I’ll describe what I saw.
winbeta.org - 06.12.2007AT&T will spend $18 billion to help boost smartphone speeds
AT&T has been sued multiple times over its alleged "3G" network, where people claim the speeds are not actually 7.2mbps, and range far less than
that, even in hot spots. The plan to help keep up with the growing number of iPhone and smartphone sales put a stress on the current 3G wireless
network. After lawsuits in Florida, San Jose and San Diego in California, and Alabama, the company has set forth $18 billion to upgrade all of
their networks. The upgrades will include adding fiber optic cables to almost all of their cell phone towers to provide true 3G speeds (7.2mbps).
AT&T will be adding 2,100 new cell cities across the nation to widen their reach across America.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 28.05.2009AT&T to speed up 3G network uploads by end of June
Leading US wireless carrier AT&T said Wednesday it would complete the roll-out of HSUPA technology on its 3G network by the end of June, which will
boost possible upload speeds to 800 kilobits per second...
betanews.com - 22.05.2008Seagate shows off 6Gbps SATA3 hard drive transfer speed
Partnering up with AMD, on Monday Seagate announced the latest Serial ATA specification: SATA3. The new specification offers hard drive transfer
speeds of up to 6Gbps, which is around 600MBps. This new specification was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization, in order to
provide a hefty upgrade from today's SATA2 specification. So just how much of an upgrade is it? Your average SATA2 drive today can offer hard
drive transfer speeds of up to 3Gbps, which is roughly 300MBps, so in theory SATA3 will be twice as fast. As CNET notes, it's important to know
that software and hardware holds back these speeds, so in reality they're about 100MBps less than they could be.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 09.03.2009New Internet Data Speeds Set
A group of researchers testing
out the so-called Internet2
network said it had broken
speed records by first sending
data at 7.67 gigabits per
second, and breaking it the
next day with a data transfer
rate of 9.08Gbps...
betanews.com - 26.04.2007Clear, first 4G network launched
Clearwire and Intel have teamed up to produce the world's first 4G network that launched on January 6, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. The network
called Clear allows consumers and businesses the chance to connect wirelessly anywhere in Portland at true broadband speeds. WiMax is the new
technology used on the network, delivers speeds up to 6mbps download using a WiMax-enabled USB modem that plugs directly into their laptops, while
mobile users can expect speeds up to 4mbps download.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 10.01.2009Internet2 Network to Get Speed
Boost
Operators of the Internet2
consortium said they will be
able to boost the speed of the
ultra-fast research network by
as much as 80 times by the
fall of next year. To
accomplish this, the fiber
optic lines will send data
using different colors of
light...
betanews.com - 27.04.2006Samsung to produce faster graphics memory next year
Samsung Electronics next year plans to begin mass production of a new type of graphics memory that both consumes less power and is significantly
faster than existing chips.
Called GDDR (Graphics Double Data Rate) 5, the new chips can transfer data at speeds up to 6Gbps, compared to
transfer speeds of 3.2Gbps offered by GDDR 4 chips, currently the fastest graphics memory available. The difference is even greater when compared to
GDDR 3, which is the most commonly used graphics memory and offers transfer speeds of 1.6Gbps.
neowin.net - 03.12.2007Intel Slashes PC Power-up Time
Chipmaker demonstrates
'Robson' flash memory to
boost laptop startup speeds...
pcworld.com - 18.10.2005Internet2 Backbone Reaches 100Gbps
The Internet2 consortium has been pushing record data transfer speeds for the last 11 years. Yesterday it was announced to have raised its ceiling
tenfold...
betanews.com - 12.10.2007Windows Easy Transfer Companion (Beta)
Windows Easy Transfer
Companion enables you to
automatically transfer your
most important programs from
your Windows XP-based PC to
your new Windows Vista-based
PC. The software will move
more than 100 of the most
popular programs, as well as
many others that you may have
installed.
You have complete control
over selecting which programs
to transfer, so only the
programs you care about will
move. The software will alert
you if some programs may not
be able to transfer, or may
not transfer with high
confidence. Most security
software is not able to
transfer due to technical
reasons.
Easy Transfer Companion is
designed to be used in
addition to Windows Easy
Transfer?which is part of
Windows Vista and
automatically transfers your
data and settings.
jcxp.net - 16.02.2007Understanding how multimedia playback moderates Vista's network transfer speeds
Mark Russinovich, one of our Technical Fellows and a prominent member of the Windows community, posted today on a topic that's received much
discussion in the past few days -- that being the manner in which Windows Vista throttles network traffic on gigabit Ethernet networks when the user
is engaged in multimedia playback.
As Mark puts it, "many people have correctly surmised that the degradation in network
performance during multimedia playback is directly connected with mechanisms employed by the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), a feature new
to Windows Vista." This throttling of network traffic is mainly apparent on networks with infrastructure allowing gigabit throughput and is
experienced by a user receiving, as opposed to sending, data.
The explanation is quite technical and rather esoteric, but the
gist is that when receiving data on faster networks, the number of system interrupts is increased and because network-driven system interrupts are
handled at higher priority than media playback, multimedia playback can be affected if the number of network-driven interrupts outpaces content
refilling the multimedia playback buffer. Mark's full explanation is quite a bit more detailed -- I've only described it here in outline.
While this behavior is by design, the throttling parameters as shipped caused greater-than-anticipated degradation on gigabit Ethernet
systems. In addition, there's also a related bug we've identified in scenarios involving multiple NICs but for which we're scheduling a fix. If
you'd like all the details in their technical glory, visit
Mark's blog. He'll have more news on this topic as it develops.
winbeta.org - 28.08.2007Internet2 P2P Network Shuts
Down
A peer-to-peer network that
took advantage of the
super-fast speeds of the
Internet2 research network
closed it doors late Monday.
Founder of the i2Hub network
Wayne Chang has declined
comment citing legal reasons,
and the blank front page of
the network's Web site now
carries the message
"R.I.P. 11.14.2005."..
betanews.com - 15.11.2005i2Hub P2P Network Shuts Down
A peer-to-peer network that
took advantage of the
super-fast speeds of the
Internet2 research network
closed it doors late Monday.
Founder of the i2Hub network
Wayne Chang has declined
comment citing legal reasons,
and the blank front page of
the network's Web site now
carries the message
"R.I.P. 11.14.2005."..
betanews.com - 16.11.2005IBM Builds Super Fast File
System
IBM on Thursday announced that
it had scored a breakthrough
in file system technology that
increases the speed of data
access by seven times.
Researchers were able to
attain a 102-gigabyte per
second transfer rate on the
ASC Purple supercomputer at
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in a recent test...
betanews.com - 10.03.2006USB 3.0 To Boost Peripherals to Multi-Gigabit Speeds
The "SuperSpeed" USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors
over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope, take care of our wired peripheral and syncing needs for another five years or
more.
USB 3.0 is built upon, and is backwards-compatible with, the USB 2.0 "High Speed" spec. It would be generous to even call the
specifications "early" at this stage, but the group still had lots of information about how USB 3.0 will work and what features it will provide. The
spec should be finalized sometime in the middle of 2008, with initial devices available in '09, and broad deployment by 2010.
The main two
goals of SuperSpeed USB are to provide a 10X boost in transfer rate (from 480-Mbits/s in USB 2.0 to 4.8 Gbits/s in USB 3.0), while dramatically
lowering power consumption. One example of their speed goals is to transfer a 27GB HD movie to a portable device in 70 seconds. The same thing would
take 15 minutes or more with HighSpeed USB (2.0). The SuperSpeed devices will use the same connectors and the same programming and device models as
existing devices.
neowin.net - 19.09.2007Sony integrates 'super 3G' into laptops
Sony has upgraded six Vaio notebooks to include High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connectivity. It claims the SZ6 and TZ20 series, which
consist of six notebooks in all, will eventually provide users with download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps while on the move.
Released
under Sony's new Everywair brand, the technology will initially provide internet connections of up to 3.6Mbps, however a firmware upgrade to be
released at some unknown point in the future will then enable users to gain connection speeds of up to 7.2Mbps.
Sony also told
Register Hardware T-Mobile will be its preferred network partner. It also said the technology means users won't have to be within range of a Wi-Fi
hotspot or fixed connection to enjoy broadband internet speeds. Unless, they're out of range of the 3G network, of course.....
winbeta.org - 28.08.2007'P4P' could double P2P transfer speeds
In results unveiled Friday at DCIA's P2P Market Conference in New York City, P4P technology was shown to enhance download rates by 205 percent over
unmanaged P2P downloads...
betanews.com - 18.03.2008Comcast gets a theoretical upstream speed boost
Comcast announced today that it has increased the upstream speeds nationwide for customers of two of its residential Internet packages, from 384 and
768 Kbps to 1 and 2 Mbps respectively...
betanews.com - 12.06.2008Similarity searches accelerate P2P downloads by 30-70%
I know you've all searched
for a file, only to see it be
displayed over and over in a
P2P client's search results.
The file name or description
may be different, but you can
see the file is the same
because of the size or some
other element. Now imagine
being able to downloading your
file by connecting to everyone
who has the same (more or
less) file.
The
limitation of P2P file sharing
is of course the number of
active users that have the
file in question. A research
team with members at Carnegie
Mellon, Purdue, and Intel
claims they can increase P2P
speeds by 30-70% by using what
they call Similarity-Enhanced
Transfer (SET), by
acknowledging that many of the
files being shared contain
pieces of identical data. Once
the requested file is divided
into small segments, the SET
software searches for similar
files using a method called
"handprinting" (similar to
techniques used to cluster
search results or filter
spam). Once similar files are
identified, they are scanned
for any individual chunks that
are identical to pieces of the
file being downloaded. As a
result, SET should greatly
expand the available sources
of any given file. The beauty
of the system is that it's
not all theory; the team has
successfully tested the
technology with existing P2P
networks.
They team
will be presenting their
technique at the 4th Symposium
on Networked Systems Design
and Implementation tomorrow,
along with actual
implementation code. " This
is a technique that I would
like people to steal.
Developers should just take
the idea and use it in their
own systems ," said David
Anderson of Carnegie
Mellon.
neowin.net - 11.04.2007