Putting Huawei in a (White) Box
5G is the most important development in networking since the 2G mobile network was created in the early ’90s. 2G put wireless communication on a digital foundation, opening the door to massive progress...
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The Consequences of Russian Misinformation
The New York Times ran a great story Sunday on Russia’s propaganda machine: “Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.” The story, written by veteran science reporter Bill...
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Warren’s Divisive Plan for Rural America
Tech news blogs were abuzz over Senator Warren’s plan to spend $85 billion to create a “public option” for rural broadband yesterday, but the plan is much less consequential than they think. You...
View ArticleStacie Hoffman on DoH
In this podcast, DNS expert Stacie Hoffman explains issues with new Internet protocol known as DNS over HTTPS (DoH.) This dubious piece of work creates a number of operational vulnerabilities in the...
View ArticleDave Belson on Internet Reliability
Long time fans of the High Tech Forum will know Dave Belson as the author of the Akamai State of the Internet reports and previous podcast guest. This research is still considered the standard for...
View ArticleThe Music Man Comes to Lakewood
I live in Lakewood, Colorado, a town of about 150,000 in the Denver suburbs. My house is on a little mountain on the west side of town, close to Golden. My neighborhood is nice – lots of trees for the...
View ArticleLocal Muni Broadband Measure Squeaking By
In Tuesday’s election voters approved the muni broadband opt-out I discussed last time by a whopping margin of 490 votes out of 43,872, one percent. This was as strange election because virtually none...
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5G and the Zero Trust Security Model
Press reports today say Dr. Lisa Porter (Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) has been pitching an open source radio access network plan to major US networking companies. As...
View ArticleBroadband in the Lockdown Era
All of us who can are working, shopping, and enjoying entertainment from home now. My quarantine is especially strict because I’m in a high-risk group. Store shelves are still stripped of toilet paper,...
View ArticleThe Internet Works Fine for Those Who Have It
As we move into the third month of sheltering in place, it’s becoming evident that the isolation is taking a toll on the stability and lucidity of some of our neighbors. One recent news item chastised...
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Winning the 5G Prize
Because 5G is the next big thing in mobile technology, we’ve been obsessed with winning the race to 5G deployment for some time now. This post breaks down the status of various countries and regions to...
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Attack of the 5G Truthers!
Thomas Johnson, the General Counsel at the FCC, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this month titled “5G conspiracy theories threaten the U.S. recovery.” It deals with the roadblocks to...
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Biden’s Zombie Broadband Plan
President Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” aspires to do great things for the American worker. Investing over two trillion dollars on infrastructure and social programs over a ten year period is bound to...
View ArticleUniversal Broadband: A 21st Century View
At the risk of feeding an obsession, I’m going to take another stab at explaining what bothers me about President Biden’s universal broadband plan, this time in plain English. While the goal of...
View ArticleMulti-Gigabit SOHO Networks are Here
America’s networking industry isn’t sitting on its laurels. Xfinity just added a 200 Mbps speed boost to its high-end plans. For perspective, 200 Mbps is more than the average total download speed in...
View ArticleComparing Wi-Fi 6E Gateways: Netgear vs. Asus
In the last post we shared some preliminary impressions of Wi-Fi 6E vs. Wi-Fi 6. 6E is identical to 6 except that 6E uses the 6GHz frequency band while 6 uses the 5GHz band. In the first test I used a...
View ArticleConnecting the Unconnected
In Episode #58 of the podcast, Tom Evslin joins Richard for a discussion and demonstration of Starlink in Vermont. Tom signed up for the Starlink beta and he uses it for our Zoom session. Tom is a...
View ArticleIIJA: Good Start, Long Way to Go
Now that the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has passed the Senate the time has come to see what’s in it and what’s not. On the “not” side we note one major omission: mobile. When...
View ArticleCongress Digs Into Broadband
Today’s House Communications and Technology subcommittee hearing on twelve small broadband bills isn’t going to break any new ground. The bills cover a wide range of issues, but none is significant...
View ArticleWill Rinehart on Broadband Infrastructure and Inclusion
H.R.3684 – the House Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – includes a $65B kicker for broadband networks in its trillion dollar appropriation package. This funding will extend broadband to unserved...
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