Time Warner Cable is running a pilot program in Texas where they're metering your bandwidth usage and charging extra if you exceed your monthly allotment. This also gives them the opportunity to create a tiered system where you pay more for more bandwidth. Richard is a TWC Texas customer, and his st...

Less than a month ago, a post on ZDNet was found exhorting us to follow ten people who were deemed ‘worth following’ on Twitter, the last stronghold of the insipid and incoherent. This morning I see that someone else is all “twittipated” about the less than universal use of t...

Ok, network people, time to stand up and be counted.  Or at very least, do some counting. By default, my firewall at work gives me a list of the top twenty five sites visited, among other things.  Every now and then I look at this list, especially when I’m feeling a lot of good will toward m...

This list is worth a post of its own; it's a summary from the UNESCO discussion on access to open educational resources (more will be added to the wiki page): * Access in terms of ability and skills. (Does the end user have the right skills to access?) * Access in terms of file formats. (Are the fil...

There are many great advantages to using private torrent trackers. For instance, the reliability and speed of the downloads exceeds those of free trackers, mainly because of the ratio systems. These ratio systems oblige everyone to upload about at least as much as they download. Ironically, the bigg...

Filed under: Internet, News, Google, P2P Google has joined with the Open Technology Institute to help identify which ISPs are restricting peer-to-peer traffic, launching M-Lab to help users discover whether or not they're being affected. One of the tools M-Lab will use is Glasnost, a java applet tha...

An unsigned reader sends us to Telephony Online for a story about Comcast's second attempt at traffic charge (free registration may be required). After the heavy criticism they mainstream from commerce and the FCC about their first system, they've adopted a more even-handed "protocol agnostic" appro...

Thank you so much for throttling my bandwidth so that I can never watch any Netflix videos in HD. Jerks....

The cockamamie plan to devote a chunk of AWS-3 spectrum to free w-fi can eliminate one enemy from its massive cadre of detractors: people who would use the bandwidth for streaming MegaPorn videos at......

Think of 2008 as Act I when it comes to set-top boxes, the prelude of what’s to come. Next year will bring the conflict in Act II, and 2010? Hopefully Act III and a resolution. In 2008, all manner of brand-name and upstart players began vying to be the box that connects to your TV set deliveri...