The average IT budget has the following breakdown: 1  31% personnel costs (internal) 2  29% software costs (external/purchasing category) 3  26% hardware costs (external/purchasing category) 4  14% costs of external service providers (external/services).
Network timeout preventing a Web browser from loading a page. In telecommunications and related engineering (including computer networking and programming), the term timeout or time-out has several meanings, including: A network parameter related to an enforced event designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time.
Ping. This measurement tells how long it takes a packet of data to travel from your computer to a server on the Internet and back. Whenever you experience delayed responses in Internet applications-this would be due to a higher than desired ping. Similar to packet loss, lower is better when it comes to ping.