The quality of Internet connections is increasingly important for people’s daily lives as work and access to services move the digital sphere. Likewise, businesses public agencies need rely more on networks service delivery. However, way individuals experience can vary substantially within countries, notably along urban-rural continuum. Measuring such variation in a consistent understand where ...

This article examines whether the quality of local fixed-line Internet service influences mobile Internet adoption and usage. An empirical analysis shows that local fixed-line Internet speed relates negatively to mobile Internet adoption and usage; if the local fixed-line connection is insufficient, consumers tend to get online through their mobile phones. Further, better local mobile Internet ...

INTRODUCTION This study seeks to determine the expertise, use, and satisfaction of faculty members of Babol University of Medical Sciences, using the provided online information services by the university. METHODS This study is descriptive and analytical survey and the information gathering was through the questionnaireand the samples, based on the random of Kerjesi and Morgan Table sample si...

In principle, a network can transfer data at nearly the speed of light. Today’s Internet, however, is much slower: our measurements show that latencies are typically more than one, and often more than two orders of magnitude larger than the lower bound implied by the speed of light. Closing this gap would not only add value to today’s Internet applications, but might also open the door to excit...

A variety of Internet traffic characterization and source models already exist. Since, the origin of the analyzed data differs a comparison of the reported traffic characteristics is difficult. In this paper, we analyze a single IP-packet trace and relate the trace data to the user access speed. This approach leads to some interesting insights showing whether and how the access speed influences...

In this paper we consider wireless mesh networks (WMNs) used to share the Internet connectivity of sparsely deployed fixed lines with heterogeneous capacity, ranging from ISP-owned high-speed links to subscriberowned low-speed connections. If traffic is routed in the mesh without considering the load distribution and the bandwidth of Internet connections, some gateways may rapidly get overloade...

Background: The internet has unique properties that include ease of access, ease of use, low cost, anonymity, and its attractiveness which resulted in problems such as internet addiction. Different statistics has been reported about internet addiction rate, but there is not a suitable estimation about the growth of Internet addiction in Iran. The aim of this study is to analyze the growth of In...