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- 200mb broadband
there has been a bit of coverage over the last few days after virgin media in the uk announced a trial of docsis 3.0 cable running at 200mb. of particular interest was the claim that “the 200mb pilot is believed to be the fastest implementation of docsis3 technology in the world, running faster than services [...]
- 2degrees
seems as if nz communications has finally announced its new brand and nz launch date. and they have a new website! nifty. 2degrees is the brand, launch is in august.
- safari 4 beta
apple has today released a new beta version of safari 4. new features - “top sites”, similar to google chromes splash page which shows a thumbnail of the most frequently-access pages; a coverflow mode for navigating bookmarks; a fairly hideous redesign of the tabs interface; updated address field which implements a few features again clearly [...]
- new site
I have started another blog which I’ll be using from now on for photos and more personal articles. I intend for now to keep this site going and try and also try to be a bit more active with it - mainly keeping posts to matters of a technical nature. I’ll have a bit of [...]
- broadband speed test results…. orcon tops survey
The NZ Herald recently announced that they were running a survey of real-world broadband speeds here in New Zealand. Today they posted the results, and I’m pretty happy with what they have to report - that “Orcon’s results were significantly better than those of other providers”.
- broadband service control in the orcon network - followup
Due to the number of comments and questions I’ve received about my previous post on the Service Control Engine and how we use it to manage international transit, I’ve put together a bit of a followup piece. There have also been a number of changes to the implementation recently that are worth sharing as well.
- china, october 2008 - part three
This is the third and last post from our trip to China. We spent the next few days (we’re in Beijing for a total of 8 days) after our visit to the Wall exploring some of the sights of Beijing a little more closely, so this post is a bit of a collection of different [...]
- china 2008 part two - the great wall
After our good start to the week with the fine weather and photo opportunities presented to us at the Forbidden City, we decided to head out to the Great Wall. I had been to the Wall before, at a section called Ju Yong Guan. Ju Yong Guan is a pretty popular tourist spot, and when [...]
- china, october 2008 - part one
It’s been over a year since I was last in China, as the guest of a telecommunications equipment vendor (see if you can guess which one), with the then-CEO and owner of Orcon, Seeby Woodhouse. We spent around a week there, flying into Hong Kong and driving across the border to Shenzhen; flying from there [...]
- iphone
I have recently upgraded from an original 2g iphone (purchased in New York days after them first being released) to a 3g version. And I’m pretty confident that it’s the best phone in the world.
I’ve been a Mac user for many years; one of the first PowerPC models saw me through university in the late [...]
