On Monday–following months of scrutiny regarding Cablevision’s broadband speeds–the FCC commended the New York-based cable provider in its Measuring Broadband America report for delivering 90 percent of the advertised 15 Mbps. In the August report, the FCC criticized Cablevision for delivering internet download speeds of only 50 percent what was marketed to customers during peek [...]
Five things to do before you sign up for cable or Internet service
Oct. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Buy, yell, lie
DNS problems may be affecting Comcast and other broadband customers
Sept. 10, 2011 6 Comments
Here we go again
DNS crash put Comcast Internet out across East Coast for several hours
Nov. 28, 2010 33 Comments
We can help you fix it!
TV Notebook: 10/5/09
Oct. 5, 2009 1 Comment
Stargate Universe did beat Dollhouse. Ugly Betty gets pushed back.
FCC to formally propose net neutrality rules
Sept. 20, 2009 3 Comments
While the panel has previously voted in favor of net neutrality, this will formally codify the rules
Comcast on the cusp of its own Internet TV?
April 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
On Tuesday, Karin Gilford, chief of Comcast’s online division, told PCWorld.com about the latest move by the cable giant. “The Comcast On Demand online video service will allow Comcast subscribers to sign in with a username and password, then access any standard or premium cable content that their cable subscription entitles them to watch.” Fancast [...]
Comcast broke the rules
July 21, 2008 1 Comment
Earlier this year, Comcast defended its position on its questionably lawful practice of “diurnal network pattern” (more active in the daytime than nighttime) stoppage, which informed users know as “bandwidth throttling.” Filing against Comcast, the Free Press and Public Knowledge non-profit organizations prompted the FCC into litigious action. As the battle went on in the [...]
Is your ISP messing with your P2P — and lying to you about it?
May 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
Germany’s Max Planck Institute has recently done testing that illustrates practices that cable Internet users have suspected for some time now — major US Cable ISPs, Comcast and Cox, are blocking peer-to-peer network patterns. The Institute, spurred on by a CNET report showing that Comcast defended its blocking of BitTorrent P2P traffic to the FCC [...]