So you’re not into getting raped by your oh so unfriendly cable or DSL company? Fear not, there is another option. No, I’m not talking about satillite. I’m talking about WISPS. What the heck is WISPS? Possibly your saving grace. WISPS is a type of terrestrial (meaning they aren’t cellular or satillite) internet service that sadly doesn’t get the attention it deserves. More than 750,000 square miles of the U.S. is covered by...
While our current joke of a government crawls along thinking 222Kbps is “broadband”, other countries are upping that number daily. Today’s story…Korea. Over the next 3 years, the Korea Communications Commission will be spending $24 billion on building out a 1Gbps network to allow insanely fast downloads. How fast? The 2 hour movie that took you 40-50 minutes today will take you 10-12 seconds in Korea by 2012! The only bad part about this...
With all the talk of Net Neutrality and ISP’s filtering the packets that come and go, favoring some and giving the cold slow shoulder to others has drawn up quite a bit of debate. The ISP’s see it as a way to “manage congestion”. Apparently they’ve never heard of upgrading their networks to actaully be able to cope with demand. I guess they can’t afford it after spending $50 million or so upgrading their corporate jet. But I...
The third largest cable provider in the U.S., COX, announced today (and rather bluntly) that they will be starting a test in Kansas and Arkansas. Now no one really likes tests. We get the bad exposure to them starting early in life in school and it doesn’t get better from there. The poor residents of Kansas and Arkansas get to be the latest digital guinea pigs. What kind of test is COX going to be doing? Apparently they have come up with a great solution to...
Not too long ago the RIAA was suing the pants off of supposed “illegal filesharers”. Their normal targets being helpless 12 year old kids. Good plan guys. They’ve since moved on and are now dropping that tactic. Instead they are going higher up to to ISP level. When the RIAA first came out with this proposal none of the ISP’s were really interested in helping the RIAA and being an internet cop. However Comcast and AT&T seem to be...
You hear lamb and tuna fish and are instantly repulsed as the thought of the two tastes mixing in your mouth is enough to make you eat breakfast more than once. Much the same reaction, although more of a “what were you thinking” coming from thought, reasoning and rationality inside your head. eBay the once rapidly growing internet giant is not immune to the economic difficulties and is looking for any way possible to stop the bleeding of their profits....
