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more about #broadband Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Oh man, and here I am wasting a week in a city in the middle of nowhere with a connection speed slower than dial up. It's TORTURE, I say! more » soulfinger: And this my friends, is why physical media isn't going away anytime soon. more » Monty: Any sense on the number of households are left to "hook up"? With over 300 million Americans, I have to assume the number of households with broadban... more » Sprzout: Ok, so here's the thing...I work for an ISP (which shall remain nameless so that I don't have the wrath of the company coming down on me and therefore... more » MrEvil: I got one once. That was when I stopped using public trackers. more » bonedog73: I have a decent job and I pay for my media, movies, music etc.... sometimes I pay for crap and it pisses me off, but that's why the interwebs are so h... more » Joe: Change you DNS server to Googles, then TW wont bother you. more » UnderLoK: You know what scares you straight? Watching people get arrested and some sent to jail. One bust in 99 sent a few up the river and a massive one in 200... more » dO_Ob: What I don't understand is why the ISP's would ever threaten to turn off your internet for pirating. Lets be honest people. A ISP is a company, compa... more » Chris Raimondi: Current uTorrent stats: 8.54 TB uploaded 528 GB downloaded That is a 16.56x ratio :] (735 different torrents and no emails from Verizon ) more » tenner: I'm a Time Warner subscriber, and they use this technique to alert you of other issues too. I had a Linux box on my network to which I assigned defau... more » zaghy2zy: I am still laughing how my friends got warnings and NEVER had any. lol and we all have the same ISP. hehehe, and the funny thing is their parents were... more » Arms Akimbo: i've noticed i'm more likely to get a "you've gone over your 250 gig quota" message than a "whatchu thinkin' you're takin'" message. more » deciBels: I like 3 things; anime, trance, and metal. 3 things that are almost never tracked by ISPs. Moreover, I'm in on a few closed trackers and my tastes, ev... more » Beaver6d9: Downloaded and installed an IP blocker, peerguardian 2 IIRC, and havent' had an issue since. i also got a usenet account and will probably have one a... more » kakarotthemonkey: When I used to have FiOS I never bothered to close my BitTorrent client as it had no negative impact on my service. However, ever since I switched to ... more » johnclevenger: I got an email from Charter for, sigh, downloading Monsters vs. Aliens. It was a few months ago and I haven't even watched the damn movie yet. They di... more » blash: The last time I got caught was for downloading the BF2 expansion packs - Euro Force and Armored Fury. It was only after I downloaded them and had copy... more » sototallycarl: Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. Everything. Always. more » Sexandpolitics: I live on campus at my university. They "claim" to monitor our bandwidth activity, but I know some of the RAs here download tons of movies all of the ... more » -
#chart
A Decade of Broadband
In some ways, this chart showing the spread of broadband in the US sums up the decade better than anything else. [GigaOM] -
#piracy
Time Warner Hijacked My Browser Because of Piracy
Time Warner, perhaps hip to the fact that I haven't bothered to check my meat space snail mail mailbox in the last three weeks, took matters into their own hands and inserted this warning directly into my browser. More » -
#infographics
Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World, Shown Visually
This awesome infographic shows the internet costs and speeds around the world for the top 20 nations in the ITIF Broadband Rankings. Unsurprisingly, we don't compare too well. More » -
#broadband
And the Award for First Country to Establish Broadband as a Legal Right Goes To...
Finland! Not only they have great universal health care—including dental—great public daycare, and great public education at all levels, but now they also got broadband as a legal right provided to every citizen. And not any crappy broadband. More » -
#fcc
Why the FCC's Got AT&T and Verizon Scared Shitless
Remember net neutrality? Over a year after Comcast's torrent-killing ways turned it into a rallying cry for chest-slapping geek solidarity, it's back. But this time, it's got AT&T and Verizon scared shitless—and it might actually screw us over. More » -
#broadband
Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
South Africa's broadband has got to be feeling pretty ill-equipped today considering a real, wing-flapping pigeon beat its transfer speeds. No really, a company found out that sending a bird with a 4GB USB drive was faster than uploading. More » -
#broadband
Comcast's New 100Mbps Cable Service Edges Us Closer to Japan-Level Broadband, Sort Of
Comcast just launched a new high-speed 100Mbps cable service in Minneapolis and St. Paul, making it the second provider to offer next-level speeds to a small market for a crazy price. More » -
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#broadband
US Broadband Providers Seek Excuses to Continue Sucking
US broadband is slower than many other countries, and our broadband providers want it to stay that way. They're pushing for standards in the FCC's definition of "broadband" that are over 350 times slower than Japan's speeds. More » -
#broadband
Attention Portuguese People: You're About to Get the Fastest Broadband in the World
Portuguese ISP Zon Multimedia will devlier one gigabit of bandwidth to broadband customers come September. One gigabit! So, if you want a truly fast internet connection in 2009, you're better off moving to the Azores than, say, New York City. More » -
#design
Glowing Router Clock Tells You The Best Time To Use Bandwidth
On a basic level, the Route O' Clock looks fantastic. But the colorful face is about more than just looks—it's a router that monitors your broadband signal and indicates its strength with different colors at each interval. More » -
#broadband
Congress Readies Bill to Bring an End to ISP Data Caps6
Eric Massa, a Congressman in western New York, has readied a bill that would force ISPs to justify economic need for data caps and volume-based usage fees. This would effectively bringing those practices to an end (for the time being). More » -
#internet
Broadband Is So Slow Amazon's Import/Export Service Sends Data Using the Post Office
How crappy is the current state of broadband? Amazon Web Services' new Import/Export data delivery moves files using the postal service because broadband is too slow. More » -
#broadband
Verizon: 'We Could Offer 400Mbps, We Just Don't Feel Like It'
Verizon decided to respond to Cablevision's new limited 101Mbps service, and, well, it's a bit contradictory. More » -
#isps
Time Warner Cable Putting Superfast DOCSIS 3.0 Internet On Hold Because We Don't Like Bandwidth Caps
It looks like the folks at TWC are bad losers. They are now considering dropping the planned rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 high speed citing that it was part of their plan for consumption based billing. More » -
#theinternetisdead
How Much Time Warner's Broadband Caps Will Screw You
Like the virus in 28 Days Later, Time Warner's internet-strangling broadband caps is spreading all over the country. They've got brand new pricing plans too and they yep, they suck. Let's look. More » -
#fcc
FCC Developing First Ever National Broadband Plan
Beginning this morning with a one-hour meeting, the FCC embarked on a mission to roll out a national broadband plan within a year's time. Where are they starting? With you. More » -
#broadband
Australia To Stimulate Itself With Government-Backed 100-Megabit Fiber Broadband For 90% of Oz
Ozzie prime minister Kevin Rudd has announced what will be one of the biggest government-sanctioned nationwide broadband initiatives in history: an A$43 billion plan to bring a fat 100mbps fiber pipe to 90% of Australians. More »
