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In the what were they drinking file for today, we have Congress stating that ISPs should be responsible for blocking fraud sites. You’re right, let’s put the same people that barely understand what the hell the Internet even is in charge of passing laws that may very likely have unintended consequences.
What consequences might you ask? [...]

Normally I would say that threatening to open up your own ISP is not going to ensure more broadband choices in your town. However if it is merely a matter of the ISPs dragging their feet and they are slowly moving this direction, then clearly seeing your city threatening to start its own fiber option [...]

I spent the better part of two hours trying to figure out how to share news of Finland following along with nations in making access to broadband a “right”. I suppose some might point out that this is no different than providing access to power or water. Yet we do not see this happening in [...]

Joy of joys, it seems that Skype has been granted AT&T’s blessing and will be able to use their broadband network for VoIP calls after all. Unfortunately, it seems that AT&T’s network for broadband usage remains in the toilet.
But their horrid user experience hardly stops there. No, my wife who is visiting family in Northwest [...]

How long must people in rural areas wait for broadband? Honestly, it is anyone’s guess at this time. We remain a laughing stock in comparison to other industrialized nations in this area. And while it is true that we have more land mass than some of those nations, it does not change the fact that, [...]

Who didn’t see this coming? The FCC does some checking and finds that ISPs are running at speeds up to 50% slower than being advertised. Not at all surprised when thinking of the cable options, I have found my FiOS, on the other hand, has been spot-on during peak and off-peak period. Clearly, there is [...]

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I must have missed something along the line here. This press release talks about putting a satellite into space for the purpose of mobile phones and broadband coverage like this is a new concept? Last time I checked, satellite phones and satellite broadband were old news.
Upon reading into this further, it turns out it differs [...]

Most of us like to believe that we have a fairly strong handle on what we are doing when traveling with our mobile devices. Most notable among these devices are those using talk time or data usage over mobile phone networks. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that most of us have next to [...]

Normally something like this would sound rather suspicious to me. But as it turns out, Virgin Mobile is really offeringpay as you go Wi-Fi! This means no more bothering with those $60 mobile broadband bills when you are not even using it. Just grab a $10 or $20 prepaid bit and surf — it’s apparently [...]

I love this article. Not simply because it tells a tale of an ISP offering fiber Internet at obtainable rates, but rather part of its business model is asking their customers to dig the path from the street to their own homes. Thus, bringing fiber to their door.
Being a big fan of helping yourself rather [...]

One of my job responsibilities is to generate, update, and distribute standard images for my organization’s PCs. Currently, this is done via Ghost images. One of the more tedious parts of this process is burning and duplicating several dozen DVDs, then FedExing them to various locations. The files are much, much too big to push [...]

I don’t know about you, but the idea of being asked to give up some of the completely USELESS TV channels targeting niches that, frankly, are better left to podcasting (in my opinion) is fine with me. That being said, I will say that unlike some areas of the world that tolerate it, cable companies [...]

Obviously I am unable to speak for everyone out there, but I for one find the following to be just sad. Countries such as Romania and Bulgaria beat out the US in download speeds while they also beat us silly in upload speeds. How could this be and is it all that accurate? Regarding accuracy, [...]

Just the other day I had someone asking me how to best select a new ISP. My response, of course, basically consisted of location, price, and limitation put upon the user by the ISP specifically. Of course for heavy Internet users, there are other important factors, but I think that what I just mentioned happens [...]

When I first read this article, I actually found myself with shivers going up and down my spine. Frankly, the idea of being forced back to dial-up would drive me to other alternatives, such as taking a laptop to a coffee shop!
Now there is no question that the temptation of $10 dial-up could sway a [...]

It is a mystery to most people. Why are we still finding that the only way you can get decent broadband in many rural areas is through the latency heavy satellite options? While some individuals living in rural areas are slowly beginning to see WiMax-like solutions being provided, most of these options are slow coming [...]

True or not, the fact is this is not what any company wants to see. The accusation is that a Belkin rep allegedly solicited people to give good reviews for their products on a number of services ranging from Amazon to NewEgg that apparently received what are allegedly false positive reviews on select Belkin products.
Now, [...]

It took some RAM testing, the old fashion way to get my PC back up and running. Even before I approved the comments making the RAM check suggestion as seen in this post, I opted to pull a stick that I had some suspicions on. Sure enough, that did the trick, problems solved… including random [...]