There’s a cool new product in the works that lets PC users control how they use bandwidth and allocate greater capacity to time-sensitive operations such as IP phone calls, video and online games.

Internet bandwidth is always a finite resource, and that’s especially true of upstream connections, where speeds typically range anywhere from 1/3 to 1/12 that of downloads. And when limited Internet ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga., takes a fairly simple approach to WAN optimization. Because streaming media ...