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- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?Up to 101Mbps is not fastI get a MINIMUM of 100 Mbps plus VoIP including the phone for a whopping $20/month. No limits. No caps. I don't live in America, but you guys are getting seriously ripped off. Just my 2 cents.Fastest service where...
- Tags: Cable, Network technology, Manufacturing, Broadband Internet, Optimum Ultra, Fios, Cablevision Systems Corp., fiber, Long Island
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
- Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Router, Network, Adobe PDF, Broadband, Server, NetGear, Ultra DOCSIS 3.0, CISCO DPC3000, Speed Test, OOKLA, SRXN3205, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Modems, Home Networking, Cable, Firewalls, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- The Harsh Reality of Suburban Broadband, Part Deux
- Goddamit! Why have I been offline for so long? As I explained in a previous article last summer about my broadband situation, my employer, like many large technology services companies, has elected to classify my work situation as "Home-Based", in that...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Broadband, Mike, Cable Guy, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- POTUS to SCOTUS: Leave Cablevision decision alone
- POTUS to SCOTUS: Leave Cablevision decision aloneRemote DVR = On DemandSo, how do the cable companies compensate the channels for On Demand services?Seems like the same thing to me...!
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, POTUS, SCOTUS, Cablevision Systems Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- POTUS to SCOTUS: Leave Cablevision decision alone
- Should the Supreme Court hear networks' and movie studios' plea to consider whether Cablevision's remote DVR technology violates copyright law? The Justice Department urged no, Dow Jones reports. A federal appeals court said Cablevision could go forward with its plans to record, store and serve copyrighted content...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Copyright Law, Digital Video Recorder, Respondents, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Cablevision speeding up Net access
- Cablevision speeding up Net access15Mbps uploads--great for videoconferencingIn movies and TV dramas, people videochat full-screen, with no jerkiness. As most of us know, it's bogus: Few of us have the bandwidth to deliver that kind of quality. If you wish to videochat with far-flung relatives and want them to see...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., full-Screen, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?
- Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?Common Carriers?Until we have real competition, like they do in Japan, we're going to be discussing caps and net neutrality. You want competition? Make every ISP a common carrier. Separate the content interests from the carriage interests. Allow...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., bandwidth, Mb/s, Cablevision 101 Mbps claim, Mbps claim, Cablevision 101, Price-War
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Verizon dismisses Cablevision 101 Mbps claims; Price war looming?
- Cablevision appears to have struck a nerve at Verizon with its launch of a 101 megabits-per-second broadband service. On Tuesday, Cablevision detailed the launch of Optimum Online Ultra, a 101 Mbps service, available in the New York area. The service, which will be offered in Cablevision's region,...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., DSL Reports Karl Bode, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Is free Wi-Fi the next big thing for broadband providers? Cablevision's success says so.
- Is free Wi-Fi the next big thing for broadband providers? Cablevision's success says so.The difference between Cablevision and ComcastI have a feeling that Cablevision values their customers. I have a feeling Cablevision doesn't send their customers letters informing them they've violated some usage limit, with said limit never being...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WiMAX, Wireless and Mobility, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, Cablevision Systems Corp., Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
- Is free Wi-Fi the next big thing for broadband providers? Cablevision's success says so.
- A few months ago, I reported on Cablevision rolling out free Wi-Fi for its subscribers in Long Island as a way to stem the flow of customers toward cellular broadband providers. It sounded like a smart idea at the time, but a new report suggests that it was a really...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Broadband, Dell'Oro Group, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Cablevision's New Online News Model May Be Optimum. Or Not.
- Cablevision's New Online News Model May Be Optimum. Or Not.A Local ViewI expect that CableVision will use Newsday as a differentiator from Verizon Fios, the new provider in town, with whom it competes with in the local market. Its a shame really. Cablevision controls all Long Island based news organizations...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Cablevision's New Online News Model May Be Optimum. Or Not.
- This is a day you hope will be a turning point in the search for a sustainable business model online for the kind of journalism that requires sustained research, writing and editing. Original fact-finding and analysis based on that fact-finding. The Rocky Mountain...
- Tags: Newsday, Cablevision Systems Corp., News, Times Select, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For Cablevision
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For CablevisionVideo on demandI had issues with this service a while back - we would order videos but just get an error saying that the video could not be played at this time. Calling cablevision got the response that we should check we had...
- Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, Corporate communications, Cablevision Systems Corp., VoD
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For Cablevision
- Cablevision Systems, one of the two biggest suppliers of subscription television services in the nation’s largest metropolitan area, has a problem. And it doesn’t really want to talk about it. Delivery of videos on demand are freezing up. The problem, according to a customer service representative, has...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VoD, Movie, Video, Maiella, Corporate Communications, Cable, Marketing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- This Recession, The Internet Is More Important Than TV
- In past recessions, downcast consumers could still be counted on to come home, plunk down in their chairs and watch TV, to escape from the clutches of economic doldrums. And pay their TV bills, because cable at home was cheaper than going out to the movies....
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Recession, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- 100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised.
- 100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised.Yeah rightOnly problem is by then, ISPs will probably limit youto 2 megs aday!!! Wouldnt surprise me.JIffwww.anoweb.br.tcRE: 100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised.CableVision is going about this all wrong. If they keep the infrastructure they have and just cap their customers...
- Tags: Only Problem, Be Surprised, Comcast Corp., Cablevision Systems Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
- Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator’s methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area â€" and possibly nationwide? One...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copyinghearing is not a copyright infringement. Listening Is.This ruling is really dumb.Any data transmission which is duplicated for a short time in transit or stored is a copy of the original and bears the onus on the messenger to be honest.Sound Analogy...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Listening
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- If you’re Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their Internet connections to access streams of video of the 25 sports being sent live via www.nbcolympics.com. ...
- Tags: business ethics, cablevision systems corp., corporate communications, digital video, internet, leadership, management, marketing, NBC Universal Inc., personal technology, time warner inc., tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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