Is My ISP Throttling My Bandwidth?

Categories: Networking

…the customer determined “unofficially” from a friendly insider at the ISP that they may be throttling their bandwidth due to BitTorrent traffic. A BitTorrent client was discovered in use by an employee at that location. After the BitTorrent client was stopped, the bandwidth resumed to normal levels.

… how do you determine if your traffic is being throttled by your ISP?

American IT Workers: Unemployable?

Categories: Poll

I saw this article today: Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are ‘Unemployable’ Vineet Nayar, the CEO of HCL Technologies, one of India’s biggest IT services vendors, states that American IT graduates are focused on making top dollar, but are not willing to learn the basic principles and methodologies that are used to manage IT … Read More

Online Distraction

Categories: Poll

I’ve noticed my attention span dwindling over the last couple of years. I think this is mostly due to the amount of time I spend surfing the web, not to mention the amount of content (Facebook, Hulu, etc.) has been made available online at a rapidly expanding rate. What drains your attention the most?