What the AC said. Your missing bandwidth is overhead. That happens on any network (even Ethernet and Fiber networks). If you want decent bandwidth (in the US), you have to pay more than $20 a month.
If you live in Korea though, more power to ya:)
I work in the networking industry. Certain companies came out with wonderful "Pre-N" marketing gimmickery in order to sell products. However, the rest of the industry was mostly appaled by this naming, because most if not all products labaled as "Pre-N" have little to no chance of being upgraded to 802.11n standards, due to the hardware limitations of these devices.
I think a lot of customers will be disspaointed when they discover this, perhaps having bought this equipment under false pretenses.
"350,000 networks--many belonging to the military and government..."
I used to do assistant net admn in the armed forces, and it's amazing how little security there is on most military computer networks. They don't allow DHCP, but as the admin I found that there were no lockdowns on installing software like AIM and such. Only problem was, network security was dictated by higher commands, so I could do nothing but watchdog the system.
So it's really no suprise to me to so this rootkit affecting so many military and government compys, given their lack of conecern about system security.
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What the AC said. Your missing bandwidth is overhead. That happens on any network (even Ethernet and Fiber networks). If you want decent bandwidth (in the US), you have to pay more than $20 a month. If you live in Korea though, more power to ya :)
I think a lot of customers will be disspaointed when they discover this, perhaps having bought this equipment under false pretenses.
I used to do assistant net admn in the armed forces, and it's amazing how little security there is on most military computer networks. They don't allow DHCP, but as the admin I found that there were no lockdowns on installing software like AIM and such. Only problem was, network security was dictated by higher commands, so I could do nothing but watchdog the system.
So it's really no suprise to me to so this rootkit affecting so many military and government compys, given their lack of conecern about system security.