Networking

This company moves its plant and switches to a new Internet provider. But six months later the company gets a collection bill from the old provider -- for six months of unpaid service.

When one company takes over another, this sysadmin pilot fish is forced to migrate networks -- and it hasn't gone smoothly.

When my voice over IP service goes offline a work around fixes the problem. But the root cause escapes both the ISP and the VoIP provider.

Due to its key role in helping Iranians who are challenging announced election results, Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance.

Vonage's VoIP phone service depends on a tiny black adapter the size for a hockey puck. When it failed so did my dial tone.

This pilot fish runs the IT department at a relatively small professional firm. Translation: Fish is responsible for anything with wires -- and that includes the toll-free phone line.

The International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley has released a Java applet that does a detailed analysis on your network connection.

Netadmin pilot fish gets a help desk ticket from a school's library assistant, who complains that a wireless handheld device she uses won't work. Fish figures out why -- but that's the easy part of the fix.

Is the free VoIP phone service worth the up-front cost? Here's the real deal.

Ooma wants to be at the root of your home network. Here's why.

AT&T had a big day at the AllThingsDigital conference in San Diego. CEO Randall Stephenson got grilled by Walt Mossberg on the state of wireless and specifically why AT&T's network was perceived to be slower and less reliable than others. That was just the beginning.

Ooma's voice over IP telephone service is free, so you will save money on your monthly phone bills. But the pay back on that $250+ initial investment may take longer than you think.

How does Ooma's voice quality measure up to land line telephone service? Pretty well, actually.

It's IT Blogwatch, and Google releases Chrome 2.0. La GOOG claims a 30% speed improvement, but Richi Jennings is naturally skeptical. Not to mention cat yodeling...

Gene Munster got the Apple world into a frenzy today with his latest note, predicting a tablet in the first half of 2010.  For those not expecting anything, the news of a tablet was very exciting.  For people like me who expect to see a tablet this year, the news wasn't as good.