Tribalwar

They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 07:44 PM | Thursday, April 16, 2009 | (url: http://arstechnic...)

After a public outcry and the attention of several members of Congress, Time Warner Cable has stopped its trial of Internet data caps, but not before making "metered billing" a tough sell for all other American ISPs.

Time Warner Cable said repeatedly that it wanted to hear from the public as it expanded its Internet data caps, and the public has roared back its response: metered billing should exist in some non-obscene ratio to cost and to competitors' pricing. In response, TWC will shelve the trials "while the customer education process continues."

Streaming Traffic Up, P2P Down

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 11:26 PM | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | (url: http://community....)

Streaming usage is now 168.9% higher per day than it was 1 year ago (3.1TB compared to 1.1TB). Total traffic is 26.5% higher per day than 1 year ago (37.2TB compared to 47TB).

P2P traffic is actually 8.75% lower per day than it was 1 year ago shrinking to 25.93% of total traffic from 35.95% one year ago (13.4TB reduced to 12.2TB).

I've personally been bittorrenting less and using hulu more.

Comcast To Charge Overage Fees/Add Caps

Submitted by: Teratos @ 10:44 AM | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | (url: http://www.dslrep...)

Not the first time a story like this has come out, but it has some comments from Comcast.

A Comcast insider tells me the company is considering implementing very clear monthly caps, and may begin charging overage fees for customers who cross them. While still in the early stages of development, the plan -- as it stands now -- would work like this: all users get a 250GB per month cap. Users would get one free "slip up" in a twelve month period, after which users would pay a $15 charge for each 10 GB over the cap they travel. According to the source, the plan has "a lot of momentum behind it," and initial testing is slated to begin in a month or two.

Now wtf is my TribalPress title.

Internet Full of 'Black Holes'

Submitted by: Shadow(of)Death @ 02:52 PM | Friday, April 11, 2008 | (url: http://news.yahoo...)

You're pounding the keyboard, double-clicking away, sighing and grumbling, but to no avail: That devilish little hourglass icon refuses to give way to the Web site you're trying to reach. Most Internet users have encountered trouble reaching online destinations, but they often attribute the problem to their wireless network cutting out or a server momentarily going down.


Sometimes, though, the problem is more mysterious. At any given moment, messages throughout the world are lost to cyber black holes, according to new computer science research.

Geeks Rejoice; CBS Puts Star Trek & Twilight Zone Online

Submitted by: Zengei @ 12:21 PM | Friday, February 22, 2008 | (url: http://arstechnic...)

CBS has started to embrace online video and has placed such shows as Star Trek and Twilight Zone online. CBS now joins the ranks of ABC, which was the first network to put full length episodes of their TV shows online, and NBC and FOX with the still private beta Hulu.

Internet ready to go into Outer Space

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 11:05 AM | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | (url: http://www.physor...)

After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday.

ICANN, which manages domain names and addresses, is preparing to launch a new format accommodating 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses.

Internet2 Gets 10x Speed Boost

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 07:57 PM | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | (url: http://www.physor...)

Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections. By sending data using 10 different colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100 Gbps.

DirecTV to offer broadband over power lines this year

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:02 PM | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | (url: http://www.market...)

DirecTV,the El Segundo, Calif., provider of digital-television services, and Current Group are expected to announce an accord to offer high-speed Internet service over electric-power lines, The Wall Street Journal reported. Closely held Current Group, Germantown, Md., is a specialist in the technology, which delivers broadband communications over power lines. To access the service, a customer plugs a modem into an electric outlet and connects a cable from a computer, the Journal reported.

Comcast shows off Super Fast Modem

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 11:23 AM | Wednesday, May 9, 2007 | (url: http://biz.yahoo....)

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.

Researchers break Internet speed records

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 07:08 PM | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | (url: http://news.yahoo...)

NEW YORK - A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols.

The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.

Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 10:15 AM | Saturday, April 14, 2007 | (url: http://www.physor...)

(AP) -- Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

The Internet "works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions," said Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor overseeing three clean-slate projects. "It's sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today."