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...
created by Jason Sanders | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 188 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 204 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"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...
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...
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...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 704 views | 26 recommendations | 9 comments
"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...
created by pgaliba | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 319 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 506 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by MikeT | 1 year ago 449 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 999 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"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...
created by merrie | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 583 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 328 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by killfile | 2 years ago 1023 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"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...
created by ricknight | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 445 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments