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Broadband providers in the US have long hawked their wares in “up to” terms. You know—”up to” 10Mbps, where “up to” sits like a tiny pebble beside the huge font size of the raw number. In reality, no one gets these speeds. That’s not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a new Federal Communications [...] Together, the FCC and Samknows are setting out to provide US consumers with reliable and accurate statistics of their broadband connections. If you are interested in using one of our units to measure your home broadband connection, then please sign up below. You will get to play a part in changing the [...] From Slashdot: “Brian Krebs takes a provocative look at ISP reputations, collecting data from 10 different sources that track ‘badness’ from a multitude of angles, from phishing to malware to botnet command and control centers. Some of the lists show very interesting and useful results; the ISPs that are most common among the [...] As we work on the Redundancy series we are finding several topics carry over into how to start a Wireless ISP. As such we will be launching a new series on starting a WISP. If anyone has questions they are wondering please let [...] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Over-Powerlines-Poster-Child-Pulling-The-Plug-105576 Manassas, Virginia was the first US city to see a real, non-trial launch of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology. However, BPL has floundered the last few years because of its inherent potential for interference with amateur and emergency radio, its irrelevance in the face of next-generation speeds, and the unavoidable fact that [...] |
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