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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. This includes 50MB data traffic per day.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

Global consumers have high expectations for seamless access via wireless and mobile networks, regardless of their location and the complex, technological components underneath. Consumers are becoming more and more fickle in not only what they watch but how well the content is delivered.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area. Real user monitoring limitations.

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Notes on 'It's a Write/Read Mobile Web'

Tim Kadlec

“The Mobile Moment”—when your mobile traffic crosses your desktop traffic and becomes your majority experience. Reducing 23 inputs to 11 for Boingo Wireless signup increased conversions by 34% and 53% decrease in sign-up time. ” In the United States, 78% of Facebook monthly users are mobile.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). However, to the firewall, this will look as if a new connection is being used without first using a handshake, which might just as well be an attacker sending malicious traffic. Support is unclear at this time. Nothing has been announced.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

In those set-ups, however (if they’re done correctly), your device will typically keep its IP intact, because the transition between wireless base stations is done at a lower protocol layer. Other causes of packet loss can lead to fewer or individual packets becoming lost (or unusable), especially on wireless networks. Did You Know?