December 28, 2014 archive

Dec 28

Watching Live Curling At 65mph on I-91

Today was an amazing testament to the power of today's mobile Internet. We traveled to Connecticut today to visit some friends and family, but we also wanted to watch the live video stream of one of the youth in our Petersham Curling Club youth program playing in the national Playdowns up in Rochester, NY. So, while my wife drove I set up my iPhone as a personal hot spot and used my iPad to display the live video stream from the Playdowns.

It worked out great... and was just amazing to think about!

Some thoughts via audio:

https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-207-an-amazing-day-of-the

Watching Live Curling At 65mph on I-91

Dec 28

TDYR 207 – An Amazing Day of the Mobile Internet and Live Video Streams

TDYR 207 - An Amazing Day of the Mobile Internet and Live Video Streams by Dan York

Dec 28

Video – Making Sense Out Of An IPv6 Address

Looking to understand how IPv6 addresses are put together?  Here’s a great video from Keith Barker that explains IPv6 addresses in a very easy-to-understand style:

And when you’re done watching, please head on over to our Start Here page to find resources about IPv6 tailored to your job role or type of company or organization…

Dec 28

Watching North Korea’s Internet Connectivity Go Up and Down Via Twitter (Featured Blog)

One thing I enjoy about following Dyn Research (formerly Renesys) on Twitter is that they provide quite interesting graphics and charts about Internet outages. They've been tracking North Korea's Internet access quite closely over the past week and their tweets have been quite enlightening. Back on December 22, for instance, DynResearch tweeted a chart showing a 9-hour, 31-minute outage... More...