Tag: ISP

The man who invented the Internet seems pretty worried about the future of net neutrality. During a roundtable discussion in London yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee warned that a two-tiered Internet would threaten the openness upon which the Web has thrived. "Best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," he told a group of representatives from various content companies, including ...

Libyans may not be able to rely on their own national networks to access the Internet, but they can still get online the old-fashioned way, thanks to a small Dutch ISP called XS4ALL. Users with modems can log into XS4ALL by dialing +31205350535, and entering xs4all as both the user name and password. The downside is that accessing the ISP will require Libyan users to pay international calling ...

The pretty little city in the Mountain South known to many simply as Nooga may soon be recognized as the home of the country's fastest Internet service. Chattanooga, Tennessee's city-owned cable and power provider, EPB, plans to have implemented 1Gbps Web service across the city by the end of 2010. Doing so would make Chattanooga the first U.S. city to offer such blazing speeds. Of course, ...

North Korea is a nation as secretive as it is controlling of its population. The extent of the government's influence even encompasses the populace's access to the Internet, but as with most of the country, it has rarely been glimpsed (though outsiders got a rather disheartening look at a paltry OS made by Dear Leader). A recent BBC News report, however, has shed some light on the dire state of ...

Share Have you ever had a sneaky suspicion that your broadband speed might not be as fast as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) claims? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will help you figure out if the wool has been pulled over your eyes. According to Wired, the FCC's new site Broadband.gov will let users test the speed of their broadband connection for free. The announcement of ...

Share Comcast proudly promotes its broadband services, which, it says, provide the "fastest Internet speeds." TimeWarner's "RoadRunner Turbo with PowerBoost" gives you an "extra burst of speed" while evading coyotes on the information superhighway. But do you know what it really means? Just how fast is "fast?" According to industry analysis from Forrester Research, only 41-percent of ...

Share Back in December, Google took steps to form Google Energy, a subsidiary created for the express purpose of buying and selling electricity in bulk. In January, the company filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enter the market, and yesterday received permission to purchase and resell wholesale energy (PDF). Google says it made the move primarily to better ...

We don't have to tell you about all the ways that Google has its hands in your life, both online and off. And, although yesterday's Google Buzz announcement is dominating the news cycle, the search giant made an announcement today that we think is far more important: Google is entering the ISP business. Apparently, the company doesn't intend to truly challenge the major players like Verizon or ...

In an effort to expose flaws in a controversial bill, a group of French hackers recently stuck it to the man with some new software. The man, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, can't be too happy about it either. The 'HADOPI Router,' named as a snarky tribute to Sarkozy's law, allows its creators to access and use password-protected Wi-Fi networks by hijacking a router without the account ...

The FTC and a California district court judge are doing their parts to make sure the Internet is a safer place by last week shutting down the ISP and Web-hosting company Pricewert LLC -- also known by the aliases 3FN, Triple Fiber Network, APS Telecom and APS Communications. Pricewert has made its mark in the Web site hosting world by allegedly soliciting business from and shielding criminals ...

Pages providing information about and encouragement for suicide are growing with alarming speed on the Internet. In Wales, 17 people have killed themselves seemingly in the hopes of earning the respect of their friends via online memorial pages. In Australia a man ended his life in his driveway using a robot he built using plans downloaded from the Internet. In Japan the current trend is to induce ...

Debates are raging around the world regarding exactly what role Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, should have when it comes to the illegal swapping of music or movie files. In the U.S., Comcast has already taken steps to block those who would share files, while Verizon has made it clear that it has no intentions to monitor those it provides service to. In Japan, though, the debates are over, as ...

In the U.S. there are debates raging in the world of the Internet Service Provider, or ISPs, about whether they are obligated to help the recording and film industries by stopping the flow of pirated content on their networks. In the U.K., though, the British government is putting its foot down, saying that if ISPs there don't take steps to stop illegal downloading they'll institute legislation ...

With Verizon's extensive DSL network and growing FiOS offerings for delivering high-speed Internet access, the company is establishing itself as a serious player in the Internet Service Provider (or ISP) industry. This is making it a target of Hollywood establishments that want Verizon to start policing its Internet traffic and help those content-producers protect their valuable copyrights that ...

Verizon's FiOS service has already been putting the heat on cable providers in the ISP realm, offering blisteringly fast downloads and impressive upload speeds at prices comparable to most cable providers. Depending on where you live, you can nab a connection at speeds up to 50 megabits downstream and 5 megabits up. Many cable providers have begun to catch up with Verizon in the quest for the ...