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Category: Broadband

  • Comcast Metered Billing Plan:

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    A Sneaky Assault on the Future of the Internet. Comcast recently announced it was considering extra charges for users who consume more than 250 GB of bandwidth per month. After 250 GB, users could purchase additional bandwidth in 10 GB amounts for $15 each. On its face, this plan sounds very reasonable. I’ve monitored my…

  • More Musings – The Hillary vs. Barack War & Movie Downloads Coming Soon?

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    Democratic Party Commits Suicide I thought it was bad a few weeks ago, but lately the contest between Clinton and Obama has sunk to new depths. They continue to battle, back and forth, doing serious damage to each other. All while McCain and the republicans sit happily on the sidelines, biding their time. It seemed…

  • Pay-By-The-Byte Ressurected?

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    If a “pay-by-the-byte” pricing scheme is necessary for the economic survival of US ISPs, then how on earth are the ISP’s in Asia and elsewhere making it? Here are some current prices from Asia: Japan: 100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $51/ month US 47 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up ADSL – $6.00 / month https://asahi-net.jp/en/…

  • Oh to be a shill for a telco (or a gullible retard)

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    It never fails to amaze me how the telcos shills populate user forums. There was a story on broadbandreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81287 5% of ISP Users Generate 45.3% of Traffic On the flip side, 40% generate just 3.8%… Ellacoya is a supplier of network hardware that can monitor and shape network traffic, and they recently shared some…

  • Wi-Fi Makes Fiber Obsolete?

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    I don’t believe wireless and fiber will ever really compete. I think there will always be a place for both. They both have unique attributes: wi-fi’s portability, and fiber’s speeds. Each has it’s own place – they compliment each other. The main problem with wireless – at least at this early stage of the game…

  • A World Without Net Neutrality: The Death of the Internet As We Know It

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    BellSouth and a few others telecos have recently started advocating a “pay-by-the-byte” type of pricing scheme. Under those proposals, consumers who access high-bandwidth applications, like file sharing or VoIP or online gaming would pay more than people who just web surfed or read email. An example of the current justification for the proposed pay-by-the-byte pricing…

  • The High Price of Doing Business With Click! Network

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    Below is an open letter to Click! Network management. For nearly six months now, Click! Network subscribers in the City of Tacoma and surrounding areas have had to pay 33% more for their broadband Internet service than similarly situated customers of Comcast and Qwest. Why is this? There really is no rational answer. How could…

  • Where is broadband heading in the US?

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    Here’s what I think is going to be big in the near future: A lot of the commercial software publishing places have immense pipes for software downloads, now. And if the people in the forums are telling the truth, download speeds are mostly not capped (on the software publisher’s end). The most prominent online publisher…