Comcast sets bandwidth limit

Uh oh. We all knew that this was coming: Comcast has finally decided to limit their residential customers to 250 GB/month. Over the past year, there have been rumours about the ISP bandwidth caps and its effect on users and the Internet's development as a collaboration, media...

Internet: Last piece of fibre-optic jigsaw falls into place as cable links ea...

The world is getting connected! High-speed internet access is coming to East Africa, greatly increasing access speed and reducing costs, which will boost knowledge and productivity. Thanks to JulianW for posting a...

Questioning the coming Internet clog by Ed Gubbins

"One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the...

Rogers Tries to Save iPhone Launch With 6GB for $30 Data Rate

At first glance, it seems that Rogers has paid attention to the huge backlash they've gotten over their overpriced iPhone plans and reduced the rates for their data plans, offering an extra 6gb a month for $30. However, when you read between the lines, you realize that...

Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection

I got frustrated tonight because I was trying to check out some hiking trails using Google Earth and the high res images weren't loading like they usually do.  Ordinarily I would suspect it was just my wifi...

Google Previews App Engine Platform for Web Applications

"Google last night launched a preview of its App Engine web application hosting service.App Engine provides a back-end platform, including a distributed Web server, database and storage, to run apps written with...

Net Neutrality battle heats up in Canada

The chatter I hear suggests that this is going to be a huge issue."The CRTC has to date largely avoided the net neutrality issue, however, that is about to change.  The Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada's largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII...

Who is 'The Throttler'?

I just got an invitation via facebook to join an interesting group.  Check it out:"As recently reported by various news outlets, Bell Canada plans to have its ‘third-party ISP traffic shaping’ policy implemented across its entire network by April 7. This policy is...

Rogers to charge bandwidth hogs extra

In what can only be described as a torrential crackdown, Rogers may soon charge heavy downloaders a penalty of up to five bucks a Gigabyte, to a maximum of $25 a month."Rogers Communications Inc. is gearing up to...

Short hiatus while moving climateaudit.org Steve McIntyre

"Today Tomorrow (Thursday) sometime around 11am Pacific Standard Time, this server will go offline to be moved to its final home inside a colocation data center in California.The IP address will change, so give Anthony and team a couple of hours to move the server and...

IPhones flooding wireless LAN

I wonder what other unintended consequences we'll see coming out of iphone-mania."the network administrators at Duke University, are reporting temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access...

Setting The Record Straight: Net Neutrality

Between the recent hullabaloo about the Fairness Doctorine, the FCC's dismissal of Net Neutrality, and the general Web 2.0 craze Americans are going to be hearing about the Net Neutrality issue a lot -- particularly as it becomes the hot-button technology issue in the...

U.S. military cuts off access to YouTube, My Space

"Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defence policy that a high-ranking army official said would take effect Monday. The...

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