Telecom and Networking

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/new-wireless-system-provides-broadband-internet-in-used-tv-channels Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://m.slashdot.org/story/297509 Ars Technica has posted a series of articles attempting to verify whether there’s any difference between a $340 “audiophile” Ethernet cable and a $2.50 generic one. In addition to doing a quick teardown, they took the cables to Las Vegas and asked a bunch of test subjects to evaluate the cables in a blind →

http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/07/27/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-installing-openwrt-on-wifi-routers/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/five-ways-to-bring-broadband-to-the-backwoods Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/first-brain-brain-interface-could-revolutinize-neuroscience This sounds like science fiction but is true. Posted from WordPress for Android →

Wifi is almost everywhere and used for many purposes – it works well for many tasks but is not optimal for all. Wifibroadcast Makes WiFi FPV Video More Like Analog article tells that normal WiFi is not what you want to send video from your quadcopter back to the first-person-view (FPV) goggles strapped on your →

Cable tracers are used for tracking and troubleshooting cables quickly. They are suitable for identification and maintenance of telephony networks and also for testing any kind of lines not-connected to the mains. Suitable applications are wiring test for computer Local Area Networks (LAN) and telephony extensions. There are countless cable tracers on the market, but →

Yesterday I posted about Wifi to power IoT. It proved that WiFi can send out energy that can power small electronics gadgets. But what else does that energy cause. We all know electronics that can get interference from cellular phones and other radio transmitters. WiFi devices (tablets, smart phones, IoT, base stations) all transmit RF →

The leap second is coming to confuse the internet today article tells that today June 30 2015 just before midnight in London, the world’s atomic clocks will add one extra second, reading a time of 23:59:60 before ticking back to 00:00:00. You can expect to see some problems somewhere as in 2012, the unexpected leap second crashed →

When you want to spead IoT devices around, there is challenge of powering them. You need to provide power to them or be prepared to change batteries in then very now and then. Great things are expected of the Internet of things but only if engineers can solve one potential show-stopper of a question: how →