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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 […]
You hosting something on your home PC and the IP address keeps getting changed by your ISP? Check out this service called Dynamic DNS, it is a service that allows you to have a hostname permanently pointed back to your home computer even with a dynamic IP. How they do it is you install a […]
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
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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 […]
I get so annoyed when I get a lot of false pages. We have redundant monitoring systems in two locations on different ISPs. For some reason it seems like one or the other is always having issues. When the ISP has issues you get a ton of false pages.
Last night I got a ton of […]
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 performance issues we were running into with our NAS across a 50Mbps WAN link have been fixed. This issue ended up being a flaky Fiber ONU on one end of the WAN link. The ISP replace this ONU with a Cisco 3400 switch and all of our problems went away.
In performance tests the best […]
Had an issue this morning where our default route was pointed down our failover ISP connection. All traffic is supposed to go over our main ISP connection which is a flat rate connection and then we have a failover connecton that charges us on usage. I came in this morning and a ton of traffic […]
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