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For me personally, FiOS is the least of the ISP evils. And as it turns out, the service appears to be popping up everywhere these days. But knowing this brought up an interesting question for me personally - do people base their living arrangements around their Internet connectivity needs?
Myself for instance, live based on broadband […]

Comcast never really learns apparently. If you think the issues with Bittorrent blocking were bad, then hearing that anyone using any protocol to use what Comcast deems as “substantial” bandwidth will get your connection added to a blacklist should not come as a total shock. Some of the things you can likely forget about once […]

Remember back in the 1990’s when you could get free access to the Internet from a growing number of dial-up ISPs? Well these days, broadband is “it” and unlike its dial-up ancestors, today’s internet options are so restricted that it is nearly impossible to enjoy the provided speed for fear of upsetting the ISP overlords. […]

Still having mixed feelings about the release of Firefox 3 as it currently has some serious bugs on Linux, due to the the system killing fsync bug. Allegedly, it is fixed, but I have yet to see evidence of it. Despite that frustration and the fact that 90% of the add-ons I use are now […]

A while back, I’d written a post about one of my customers I’d help transition from one ISP (DSL.net) to another (Comcast) for Internet connectivity at their small office. After that was completed, I thought they would be in a position to cut ties with their old ISP and stop paying for services they no […]

I have just confirmed as of 3:00pm PST today, Comcast is not allowing enabling access to GoDaddy whatsoever. And let me clear on this, I have tried accessing GoDaddy via other ISP’s today - no issues whatsoever. I also use OpenDNS, not Comcast’s DNS servers - pinging GoDaddy’s IP from my Comcast account also brings […]

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide. That level of use has led to a growing tension between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers’ P2P file-sharing services, […]

It was bound to happen eventually. ISPs are looking to restrict the flow of piracy by deciding for us, what could potentially be harmful to your computer or to a software company’s bankroll.
What is truly sad about all of this, is we really do not truly know where this will end or what our new […]