Having fast, reliable home internet is essential these days for work, school, streaming and browsing. But understanding how much speed you need, or even what "internet speed" even means, can be a ...

Since we started Ars about five years ago, computing performance has come to be bound more and more by bandwidth. This is especially true in the past two years, with Intel and AMD aggressivly ...

Bandwidth is a simple number that people think they understand. The bigger the number, the faster the storage. We'll see more change in the next decade than we've ever seen before in computer data ...

One of the best and most cost-effective ways to improve the performance of an old PC is to put an SSD in it. Even a purpose-built legacy system running the highest-end components available in its era ...

Sponsored Moving more bits across a copper wire or optical cable at a lower cost per bit shifted has been the dominant driver of datacenter networking since distributed systems were first developed ...

Smartphone users expect a website to load in under three seconds -- and may leave a website that takes longer. Furthermore, when Google assesses page ranks, the websites that load faster rank higher.

The industry is in the midst of a raging debate over DRAM performance. Today, chip makers are fighting it out, but very soon the battle zone will expand to include system manufacturers, all the way ...