I dug up some notes from my own archives, and decided to post information on setting up a network bandwidth emulator with Linux. And what would anybody want to use this for? Over the years, I have ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

I have an older OSX (10.1) machine handling all my routing/firewalling for my little home network. A long time ago I had a linux router (sadly it was hit by lightning) with a tool for watching current ...

Working online requires internet connection and costs you too much or less depending upon the needs. Minimizing the cost of internet connection totally depends on you and this will only be controlled ...

There are a lot of reasons why systems slow down. Some process might be bogging down the CPU, you may be seeing a lot of disk contention, or maybe memory is in high demand and a lot of swapping is ...