I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

When I had to troubleshoot my network for buffering issues, the problem turned out to be IPv6, and disabling it fixed the buffering for good. But that's not the only thing that can cause stuttering in ...

When it comes to your home network, it's always upsetting when you pay for a plan with fast upload (and download) speeds only to end up struggling during certain online activities. In many cases, ...

All things come to those who wait, and bufferbloat measurement tools are no exception. When we hosted a workshop on reducing Internet latency way back in 2013, one of the identified outcomes was the ...

Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...

This is my promised update on bufferbloat, the problem I write about occasionally involving networks and applications that try to improve the flow of streaming data, especially video data, over the ...

Sometimes it seems strange that a problem can develop and go undetected, even under watchful eyes. That’s exactly what has happened with the phenomenon called bufferbloat. While its technical detail ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From Robert X. Cringely, on the evolution of the internet: In terms of latency, the ...

At this point, if you’re buying a modem for Xfinity I would go with a DOCSIS 3.1 modem, for sure. Not only does it future-proof you for if/when you want to get Gigabit service, it also gives you the ...

Very few presenters at technical conferences come equipped with gallons of water and a small inflatable swimming pool to contain it. But that is just how Stephen Hemminger showed up at the 2014 Linux ...