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more about #isp 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 » Yerzriknot: Let's use some of those bunker-buster bombs we've got lying around on them. more » Segador: *cough* RBN *cough* They've been doing it for a long time. [en.wikipedia.org] more » kingtj: The problem is, you're never going to "get people to stop clicking this stuff". These days, they're getting a lot sneakier - making pop-up windows th... more » Kaiser-Machead: I say we firebomb 'em. more » iElvis: On the other hand, they're mostly stealing stupid people's money. If the spammers don't take it, these folks will just spend it on infomercial junk o... more » OCEntertainment: Orrr....people stop clicking f*!@ing spam links, dammit! more » yantelope: The key to victory is for us to stop clicking on the fricking emails!!! They get their money from your grandparents and the dummy who lives next to y... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: This is even scarier given the rise of datacenters in China... more » Monty: The suggestions here are good, and I do not mean to be quite as obnoxious as this will sound - but, the main reason people cut their land lines today ... more » Curves: Most of the people at Giz would probably dig a ditch for faster downloads too, (especially if its for pr0n). more » player_of_games: Isn't this going overboard? more » InsidiousTuna: Admirable. more » nutbastard: Anyone else chuckling at the fact that we have an old, white Congressman named "Massa"? "Massa! Massa! The ISPs done capped our 'loads! And we slave f... more » nutbastard: Save us, Government, save us! We don't like the terms of our voluntary contracts any more, please hold a gun to their heads! Never mind that bandwidth... more » dfwguy: I know this is somewhat off topic, but I think AT&T has found another way to limit at least part of your downloads. Sometime around 7/15/09 they a... more » DontFeedTheTrolls: wait, what?! we are already being capped, this article is talking about making ISP's UNCAP. Your backwards comment makes my brain hurt more » Solaseria: For all of us- errr...those torrentors eating up bandwidth, would capping data volume put a damper on media pirating? 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] -
#spam
Botnet Baddies Setting Up Own ISPs For Unfettered Spamming
Well, this is equal parts frightening and annoying: malware writers and their lot have been buying up data centers and getting approved for large blocks of IP space. What's that mean? That they can pretty much run rampant. More » -
#fiberoptics
Isolated U.K. Lifeboat Community Digs Its Own Fiber Optic Channel
Power to the People: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, not content with their local service provider, recently took matters into their own hands and literally dug a ditch to install their own modest 100Mbps fiber optic Internet connection. 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 » -
#profdealzmodo
Screw the Recession: How to Spend Less and Get More
A new tax year has begun which provides a great opportunity to do a little financial spring cleaning. Even in a tough economy, it is possible to spend less without making major sacrifices. More » -
#comcast
Exposing Your Junk To The Comcast Guy Will Not Get You Free Cable, Only Jail Time
Here is my life lesson for today: no matter how excited you are to get your internet service fixed, do not expose yourself to the Comcast guy. I can't stress that enough. More » -
#questionoftheday
Your Internet Connection Is Down: How Do You React?
You are merrily surfing the web when the lights on the modem stop blinking—that's right, your connection is down. What is your immediate reaction in this situation? More » -
#netneuterality
Your ISP Hates You: They're Probably Working With RIAA
Remember how the RIAA was getting ISPs to help battle copyright infringers after they gave up lawsuits, and AT&T was all "no comment"? Now AT&T confirms they're working with the RIAA. UPDATED. More » -
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#comcast
Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
Comcast's bandwidth throttling system that slows you down for using too much bandwidth is now fully armed and operational in all markets. Here's how it works, and how to not get stuck on the short bus. More » -
#comcast
Comcast Opens Curtains On How They Filter Your Traffic
Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols (Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL traffic you generate, even if it's from their own Fancast streaming video service, if you're generating abnormally high traffic compared to your peers. More » -
#att
Welcome to the Future of Broadband: Third Major ISP AT&T Testing Bandwidth Caps in the Fall
AT&T chief tech officer John Donovan has told Wired that they're going to test bandwidth caps in the fall, making them the third of the four major ISPs to do so. (Verizon stands alone, but for how long?) He lays out the familiar rationale, a small group of users (5 percent) pillage the network (40 percent) and they've got to stop them. But then he slips what's probably the real reason they've moving to caps: "Traffic on our backbone is growing 60 percent per year, but our revenue is not." More » -
#bittorrent
How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic
Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The full test takes seven minutes, but it's seven minutes well spent to find out whether you need another ISP. Or if you need to cut down on your PureTNA downloads. [Max Planck Institute via TorrentFreak via LifeHacker]
