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...

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...

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...

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...

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...