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Asus EA-AC87 Media Bridge and Access Point Comes with 1734 Mbps Speeds
Asus has announced a new access point and media bridge, the EA-AC87, which is a dual-purpose wireless AC-1800 that uses a 4×4 MIMO antenna array. The company states that when it is paired with a 4×4 router, the EA-AC87 is able to deliver the world’s fastest 5GHz speeds of up…
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Lightning Tube ‘Treatment’ given to Avexir RAIDEN DDR3 Memory Modules
The RAIDEN DDR3 memory module series is known for their high performance and apparently for their unique feature. The modules are using the world exclusive patented technology of plasma tubes in order to mimic the lightning effect for gamers seeking a more unique look and something to brag about when…
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EE 4G Speed Testing Hits 400Mbps in London Trial
EE, one of the biggest players in today’s mobile internet market has recently trialled this ‘Hyper-Local’ trial in London. They would like us to believe that this speed will be with us sometime in the future, by combining the LTE speeds of three (number not brand) carrier. Great, in theory,…
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Meet The Electric Car With More Power Than a Bugatti Veyron
Meet the Quant F – a German supercar with a difference. It’s electric, but certainly isn’t your average EV. It produces the equivalent of 1075 bhp – more than the Bugatti Veyron. What’s being billed as Germany’s answer to Tesla, nanoFlowcell, the company behind this beast, will be revealing this new car…
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First Video of a Laser Beam Travelling Through The Air
Light travels fast. Very fast. So much so, that it just seems instant to us. But, for the first time ever, we can see for ourselves that it isn’t and that it does indeed travel. Researchers at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have managed to capture a laser beam travelling through…
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ASUS to Release Gigabit Wireless Router
The ASUS RT-AC55U will provide users with not only 1200Mbps dual AC wireless capabilities, but Gigabit LAN will also come standard all for the low price of under $200 US. This information comes about not long after ASUS have released their previous Gigabit-enabled units, with the main difference being the…
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Comcast and Verizon Lowered Speed to Cogent below 0.5Mbps
New detailed measurements have been released displaying exactly how much throttling of traffic was done by major US ISP’s Comcast and Verizon through to Cogent – a backbone operator of Netflix traffic. As almost everyone in the United States discovered over the span of the last year, traffic through to…
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Virginia Has the Fastest Internet in the USA
Well here they are, the fastest states in America. A new report from Broadview shows that the average internet speed in the USA is fastest in the state of Virginia and slowest in Alaska. Overall the report shows that internet speeds are slower in the Midwest and southern states with…
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Longest off-Earth Driving Record Broken by NASA Opportunity Rover
NASA’s Opportunity has been on the surface of the Red Planet for a decade and has driven 25 miles. The previous record for the most miles driven off-Earth was held by the Soviet Union Lunokhod 2. The record was given to Opportunity on July 27 as it drove 157 feet to…
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Australia Wants To Cut Internet Connection for People Downloading from Torrent Websites
There have been some talks about the high number of pirates in Australia, having the government worried about what to do in response to the piracy activity. Earlier this year, Australia is said to have had the highest number of illegal downloads of Game of Thrones: Season Four. A leaked…
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Record Breaking 10Gbps Broadband Speed Over Copper Lines Achieved By Bell Labs
Bell Labs, part of Alcatel-Lucent have achieved a jaw dropping world record of 10Gbps over a standard copper telephone line. Achieved as part of a research project to investigate the possibility of bringing Gigabit internet to broadband networks that encompass copper lines along with high-speed fibre, Bell Labs were able to…
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Fan Control Bug Causes MSI R9 290X Lightning Cards To Burnout!
While this news isn’t exactly new to some people out there, it’s now gotten to the point where it’s been discovered to be a wider issue that one or two cards having problems with their fans. It’s no secret that a small percentage of any type of technology will have…
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Google Planning on Bringing ‘Fiber’ To 34 Cities In The U.S. By The End Of 2014
It appears that Google is interested in providing its fiber services to even more cities in the US. The company giant has reportedly invited nine metro areas to analyse the requirements of bringing Google Fiber into their ‘neighbourhoods’. “People are hungrier than ever for faster Internet, and as a result,…
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Asia Reported To Be The Leading Place For Top-Speed Internet Connectivity
Study shows that the fastest internet connection, in the world, is in Asia. Latest study from Akamai Technologies, Asia is considered the epicentre for top-speed Internet access, having Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore as the top 4 on the list. Akami states that most of Asia improved their…
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BT And Alcatel-Lucent’s Fiber Optic Tests Reveal 1.4 Tb/s Speeds
BT and Alcatel-Lucent have been reportedly working on a way to address the current internet speed bandwidth and congestions which some parts of the UK are facing. In an experiment performed, the companies managed to achieve a speed of 1.4 Tb/s over an existing fiber optic connection and commercial grade…
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