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Users in our Optimum forum discuss the company's deployment of the new "Altice One" cloud-based DVR, which features an updated user interface and fully integrated access to live TV, video on demand, apps such as YouTube and Pandora, cloud DVR recordings and WiFi connectivity -- plus advanced search that utilizes a new voice-activated remote control. The new hardware closely mirrors the "La Box" hardware the company has already introduced overseas.

NAT stands for Network Address Translation, which is the process of remapping one IP address into another IP address. NAT was developed by Cisco, and is used by devices such as routers and firewalls.

With the proliferation of devices that are on the internet, the challenge is that the number of devices would exceed the number of IP Addresses.

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16 consumer groups are demanding that the FCC release the 47,000 net neutrality complaints filed with the agency since June 2015. Despite repeatedly stating he'd be a stickler for transparency, FCC boss Ajit Pai has so far refused to release the comments and complaints.

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Sling TV was the first real live stream alternative to cable. It gave cord cutters a way to avoid the common traps of traditional cable without losing the content that was important to them.

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AT&T's streaming video service DirecTV Now will finally see a cloud DVR function later this year. The functionality will come as part of an AT&T plan to revamp and unify the company's existing DirecTV, IPTV (U-Verse TV) and DirecTV Now services into a more consistent whole.

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While Chromebooks debuted as a curiosity half a decade ago, last year when they were outselling Macbooks folks began paying attention. After all, the allure of a stable platform free of malware, with a simple interface centered around the Google Chrome browser and other Google services, all at an affordable price is an easy proposition.

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Dish's Sling TV has expanded the beta of the streaming video provider's new DVR capabilities. Sling launched the paid beta back in March, letting users pay $5 more per month for 50 hours of Cloud DVR storage.

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AT&T is preparing to shutter the company's U-Verse.com website as the U-Verse brand continues to be phased out. You might recall that AT&T had already eliminated the U-Verse branding from most of its products, with U-Verse broadband and U-Verse phone services now creatively just named "AT&T Internet" and "AT&T Phone." The company told DSLReports.com that the rebranding was to "make it simpler for our customers."

Phillip Swann noted this week that AT&T has also been sending notices to customers indicating that the Uverse.com website will also be shuttered as of May 30.

The website currently lets customers stream some of the channels they subscribe to via traditional TV packages, as well as providing access to an online DVR feature and a variety of on demand content.

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Network topology is how a network is arranged, from the standpoint of its nodes, and the connections between them. Nodes can be any of the devices, including computers, printers, routers.

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Users in our security forum are discussing today's massive new Wikileaks dump of CIA documents, highlighting the agency's unsurprising stockpiling of Android and iOS zero day exploits, as well as details on the agency's hacking of Samsung "smart" TVs and other Internet of (broken) things devices.

As card drive down the road, order is maintained through the "rules of the road," including driving on the right side in the US, and obeying the posted speed limits and signage. Another layer are the traffic signals which keep the flow of traffic smooth and safe.

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