Those who normally upload large amounts of data while they are not at home may have a problem with the cloud upstream or backup replication in times of home office. In the same way, it can lead to problems if family members want to upload larger amounts of data in parallel. To avoid this, there are various approaches on how the available bandwidth can be divided in the best possible way, ...
Apparently working access data of Telekom customers is floating around on the darknet. The Bonn-based company is calling on customers to change their passwords, but denies a server hack. Telekom suspects that the data originated from phishing attacks - an attack on the servers is not said to have taken place. According to the Telekom announcement, the darknet data should also contain the access data ...
The BayernWLAN, in which 20,000 Wifi access points are to be made available throughout the state, is being further expanded with the help of Vodafone. WLAN hotspots are to be set up at universities, tourist destinations and public authorities in Bavaria by 2020 - 20,000 in total. This was announced by Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder (CSU). The hotspots, some of which are already installed and used ...
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Anyone who wants to operate a hardware fax on a VoIP connection must either connect this directly to the Fritz!Box or use an adapter such as the Cisco SPA112. Operating an analog fax machine is not necessarily easy for customers with an "All-IP" connection (or whatever the respective provider calls the product). Analogue devices can be connected to the Fritz!Box ...
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Those who are planning a holiday in Australia and want to stay reachable or want to make cheap local calls can use a Telstra prepaid package. With the German mobile phone contract to call outside Europe can be very expensive very quickly: with Congstar, for example, the telephony minute costs 1.59 euros, if you are called even more. SMS and ...
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At a Vodafone conference, German Chancellor Merkel spoke out in favour of prioritising specialist services on the internet - and thus against net neutrality. Although the chancellor was referring to applications such as autonomous cars (for which it may well make sense that they have a functioning internet connection), preferential treatment of no matter which services would undermine the ...
While DNS resolution is a topic that most probably don't think about, the process that resolves an IP address from a domain still has a significant impact on browsing speed. Some relief can be provided by a DNS cache on a Raspberry Pi. After switching internet providers and now using a VDSL line with ...
After the Telekom has already reaped a lot of criticism for its throttling advance, o2 now also announces that it wants to throttle DSL and VDSL connections in the future. However, the limits are somewhat more generous: from 300 GB, which must be reached three months in a row (in the first month 500 GB, in the second 250 and in the third 750 GB ...
Golem reports that an employee of an electronics store voiced in an RTL documentary that jammers are used so that customers can no longer easily compare store prices with Internet prices. Personally, I think that's a bold thesis: while some stores may not favor cell phone reception due to their design, true jammers would be too risky. The ...
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After there is still negative feedback due to the announced throttling after reaching certain volumes, Telekom has now talked about how much money you get a real flat rate for. From today's perspective, you will have to pay between 10 and 20 euros more - a DSL rate that costs 50 euros today would then cost between 60 ...
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