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Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges: Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship: The Global Online Freedom Act, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), would penalize companies who facilitate other countries censoring the Internet. Call it the anti-Yahoo law. "American high-tech firms have produced the technology and know-how that has led to a modern-day information revolution," Smith said...; Tags: Olympic Games, Beijing, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-02
NJ court: IP-related info is private: Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....; Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Will the Internet remain neutral?: Probably not. What Net Neutrality advocates forget is what has kept the Internet neutral so far has been market discipline, not government. Most customers want neutrality, and will "vote with their feet" against those carriers who violate it. Assuming, that is, they have a...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal: So, I talked to former ZD technical director and editor at large George Ou last week. He's been looking at Comcast's claims for its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in Minneapolis. I passed along Comcast's projections that the service would 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps up. ...; Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Mbps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-09

Wired magazine's Chris Anderson's "free" doesn't pay the bills...: So, my other site Silicon Valley Watcher was down for much of Tuesday. My ISP had a problem processing my payment. I had just read Chris Anderson's article in Wired Magazine about how storage and bandwidth is free and they disagreed. $35 is what they wanted. Which...; Tags: Wired Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-04-08
SpreadMsg Lite (exe): an email scanning agent that searches email waiting at their ISP, or from any POP3 or IMAP server, applying user-specified rules, like looking for specific text content, or for mail "from" a specific person, or specific words in the "subject", etc. If rules are met, instant messages are delivered or...; Tags: E-mail, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Online Communications, Internet; Software downloads 2008-03-28
Does Japan's plan to kick off P2P users violate privacy?: I just read George's piece on Japan's scheme to block illegal file-traders and at first blush it sounds good. According to a Japanese newspaper, ISP groups and copyright holders have agreed on a plan to identify, notify and eventually cut off P2P traders of illegal content. Here's George: ...; Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, IP, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Japan's ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates: Four of Japan's largest Internet provider organizations have come to an agreement with copyright holders on how to tackle the illegal file trading on P2P (Peer to Peer) networks. Comprised of about 1000 major and smaller Japanese Internet providers, the four organizations agreed to target flagrant copyright violators by first...; Tags: Internet Provider, Japan, File-trading, P2P, Internet Service Provider, Piracy, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-16
P4P: faster, smarter P2P: The P4P working group demo'd higher P2P download speeds with 1/6th the inter-metro hops that soak up expensive, long-distance network bandwidth. P4P is designed to enable better ISP and P2P coexistence with a win/win solution: better performance for users and less network overhead for the ISP. P4P...; Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Internet Service Provider, P4P, pTracker, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-03-16
My night with Verizon: I'm running a bit late getting these blogs posted today since my DSL service was on the fritz last night. I bring this up in this context for a couple of reasons. First, I need a good rant since this was probably the worst tech support experiences of...; Tags: Network, Tech, Verizon Communications Inc., Workforce Management, Domain Names, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Productivity, Networking, Human Resources, Internet, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP: A reader and information technology professional in the New York area sent me an email this morning that raises the possibility that his high-speed Internet service provider Time Warner Cable may be blocking his AT&T CallVantage VoIP service. Not only does the reader wish to describe...; Tags: Time Warner Inc., VoIP, Phone, AT&T Corp., AT&T CallVantage, ATT, Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Telecommunications, Internet, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-03-03
Internet Service Provider Boosts Performance With New Operating System: HiNet provides media services through an advanced IT environment called the HiNet Media Platform (HMP) and delivers streaming media services for the hinet.net and hichannel.hinet.net Web sites. As its service offerings grow, HiNet wants to ensure that HMP will support ever-increasing bandwidth and processing requirements. In particular, the company wants...; Tags: Performance, Operating System, Internet Service, Streaming Media, HiNet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Digital Media, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Case studies 2008-03-01
m2ftp (exe): m2ftp is a so-called FTP-client is a software which is used to establish a connection to an FTP-server. m2ftp can be used to easily up and download as well as administer data files and directories, without users having to know the functionalities of FTP (File Transfer Protocol).Thus, m2ftp is a...; Tags: Web, Administration, FTP, Mquadr.at, M2ftp, Channel Management, Workforce Management, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Marketing, Human Resources, Internet; Software downloads 2008-02-29
To host or not to host: Last night I wrote a piece about the use of 802.11n, asking for opinions on whether it was worth it (or even a good idea) to roll out Draft-N routers (the response was mixed, but the general consensus seemed to be to stick with cheap 802.11g access points for now)....; Tags: District, Backup, SiS, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail, Web Site Development, Data Centers, Servers, Internet, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-02-27
Pakistan on the YouTube black hole: Never mind: Having neatly knocked YouTube off the net for several hours, exposing a key vulnerability in the BRG system and creating a small tumult within Pakistan, the government has now changed course and removed the block on YouTube, AP reports. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Internet service providers...; Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Government, Gender And Diversity, Fax, Channel Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-26
YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses: It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...; Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-25
Pakistan removed from the Internet: 4:30 PM Eastern (US). The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to...; Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-24
Pakistan declares war on YouTube: What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an international fiasco. But no, Pakastan has ordered all ISP's to block YouTube. From Yahoo...; Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-24
California court order effectively erases Wikileaks: In the rapidly escalating story of Wikileaks.org, (here) a California court has ordered the domain registrar, Dynadot, to erase all DNS entries for the domain, effectively erasing a website that hosts millions of documents purportedly "leaked" to the wiki-style site in the name of whistle-blowing on malfeasance. If...; Tags: DNS, California, Web Site, Domain Names, Web Site Development, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-18