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“The Federal Trade Commission issued a staff report Wednesday on Net Neutrality, coming firmly down in the wait-and-see-if-ISPs-begin-acting-badly camp, cautioning lawmakers to be careful about creating rules that interfere with competition.
The FTC’s Internet Access Task Force’s report, which the five-member commission approved unanimously, describes the debate, the internet’s architecture […]
If you want to take a quite look at the overall health of the major ISP backbones I found the site for you. I ran across it the other day and it is pretty sweet. Too bad the ISP my company is on isn’t listed but all of the big dog ISPs are.
Internet Health Report
Technorati […]
We all know that if you hang around in smoky bars and restaurants for extended periods of time you can have damaging affects to your lungs. Little did we know that smoking can take down the Internet too. Ok well it is more like Internet2 but whatever.
“A homeless man threw a cigarette onto a […]
Well you come in and your Internet is slow across the board, doesn’t matter what website you are going to. Being an IT Professional and in my case the Network Admin I know I will hear about it. It is time to start checking it out even if it is just my PC.
First think I […]
A key U.S. senator said Tuesday that Congress may fail to renew a temporary ban on some state and local Internet access taxes that expires on November 1.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said he fears that lobbyists for state and local governments and their powerful allies in Washington will stymie efforts by Internet and telecommunications companies […]
I ran across an interesting article today about what some of the large ISPs are doing with data they keep on your Internet activities. Things like do they store logs on what you do from day to day online, do they sell that information, do they share it openly with the Justice Department.
Check it […]
Well it has been in the works for over 6 months but we finally got it done yesterday, we doubled our bandwidth. The last month has been nothing but red tape and waiting for our ISP to get off their butts to do their job. In mid December we signed a contract with our ISP […]
The Federal Trade Commission has formed an Internet Access Task Force to examine whether Net neutrality advocates’ fears of large broadband providers blocking or slowing Web content from competitors are justified, the agency’s chairwoman said.Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras on Monday also called on lawmakers to be cautious about passing a Net neutrality law, which could […]
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