By: possibility

possibility — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:29:23 +0000

We have a democrat in office. While it’s not enough for an assumed ability to make change in these areas, bandwidth and for that matter the future of the internet and how it’s owned and utilized, it is far more likely to be a time in which we even have a chance at any of that. The important thing is for people to be organized and do something.

By: astara

astara — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:00:44 +0000

Why should the telco invest in upgrading their networks? It’s more profitable to them to split up the current offering and offer smaller and smaller bits so they can develop a multitude of price points to accommodate the consumer’s willingness to pay for a slightly larger size of an “old pie”. While other countries invest in networks like they would invest in roadways, here in “the market rules, america”, it will be up to the market to decided when it will be profitable to offer higher speeds and at what price.

As is pointed out elsewhere, Comcast as a cable-TV company has a direct interest in in preventing unlimited high-speed, since as time continue, you’ll be more and more able to download DVD or HD-quality movies over the net — and comcast wants a piece of that action — since it is direct competition to what they are offering (pay-on-demand shows…movies, etc).

It’s a business — why shouldn’t it be able to charge as much as the market will bare? That IS the conservative, Republican, market driven view. The strong will exploit the weak. Americans vote the fools into office to allow unbridled incompetence to populate the government and ‘guard’ consumers…ha!

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:59:50 +0000

If you have a Linksys router, you can install DD-WRT, which has a pretty spiffy bandwidth monitoring feature.

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