Internet Congestion Collapse Computerphile

Summary

Remembering a time when connections were down to 40 bits per second, and the resulting algorithms still in use today! ISPs don't always get it right - they gamble that all of their subscribers won't use all of their bandwidth all of the time. Dr Richard ... Why it's a bad idea to build a Virtual Private Continuing the deep dive down the We've all got to the edge of the wifi coverage, but the idea of coverage produces a Multiple ways to break through restrictions in a Routers carry the traffic of the You say "bye" first! - no, you say "bye" first! - how do you know when to close the connection? Dr Richard G. Clegg of Queen Mary ... How or why would a computer ever panic? - What actually happens when things go wrong? Our own 'Dr Heartbleed' Steve ... Nearly nine million Windows machines were taken out by the Crowdstrike problem in July 2024, but why was the impact so ... How do websites marry up to their IP addresses? Dr Mike Pound explains the Domain Name System - DNS. Audible free book: audible.com/ EMF camp prides itself on it's connectivity - but how do you connect hundreds of campers to high speed