The advantage for the Internet honchos at the company is that those 2,000 users are no longer heading out to PointCast's web site individually, across the wide area network, downloading the requisite updates and files, and in the process dragging down network performance for everybody.
Dragging the network into the 21st century, to generate more capacity with greater resilience is a formidable and expensive task.
Even still, some of us may find ourselves on a dragging Wifi network.
ABC's decision to reboot the show received mixed reactions from viewers, with many dragging the network for giving a platform to Barr, who has a history of peddling conspiracy theories and making offensive comments.
His father was a debt-collector who rounded up licence fees for the NHK television network, dragging his son along with him on Sundays as he called on households door-to-door.
Although no other show came close to matching "Idol" in the ratings, Fox's "Fringe" drew only 11.2 million viewers at 9, dragging down the network's average for the night.
A couple of kids being sued by the RIAA for illegally downloading music are trying to drag Sharman Networks (makers of KaZaA), AOL, and one of their friends into the litigation process.
The Sony device was designed to receive, store and play up to 18 hours of compressed video and graphics sent over a standard Internet-protocol network -- without dragging down the entire computer network in the process.
Yahoo plans to use its personalisation and search technologies to tie Tumblr users more tightly into its network – thus dragging their attention away from rival social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.
Look in the list of Preferred Networks to find the name of the wifi network you wish to make the default network, drag it to the top of the list, press OK then press Apply.
