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5 May 202510 May 2025 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

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Life / Networking

Dave Täht for Postel Service Award

24 April 20251 May 2025 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I posted this nomination for the John B. Postel Service Award today… I strongly recommend Dave Täht for the Postel Service Award. Regrettably, this must be posthumous. I first learned …

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Trouble uploading images to Wordland

21 March 20257 May 2025 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I am delighted with Wordland – it makes it very easy to post to my various blogs. I encountered a problem uploading an image to one of my sites. I …

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SOLUTION:  Trouble uploading images #53

20 March 202527 May 2026 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

When Wordland.social initially rolled out, I was fascinated/delighted. It seemed almost too good to be true. It wasn’t – Wordland.social is terrific. But I had trouble uploading images. Here is …

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All the “reasons” that bufferbloat isn’t a problem

6 May 20245 October 2025 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

As we take a shot at opening people’s eyes to bufferbloat, we should know some of the “objections” we’ll run up against. Even though there’s terrific technical data to back …

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Life / Networking

Save money while keeping latency low

12 February 20236 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I often hear people saying they have bad responsiveness / high latency on their high-speed internet connection. Even though they have a contract for 500 mbps+ service from their ISP, …

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Using Apple’s RPM tool

7 November 20216 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

macOS Monterey ships with a tool that measures the responsiveness of your network connection. It saturates the network with traffic for 20 seconds, then measures the rate of short transactions …

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NameD•Tective — mDNS over AppleTalk

2 November 20216 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

[From the Archives of Amusing Technology…] Back in the ’90s, Dave Fisher and I created NameD•tective, a Macintosh control panel that gave any Mac on the Dartmouth network a static …

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Comcast modems decrease bufferbloat

21 September 20216 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Last month, Comcast released a paper Improving Latency with Active Queue Management (AQM) During COVID-19 that shows that their PIE AQM dramatically decreases lag/latency (by a factor of 10X — …

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