Comment on When It Comes to Broadband, Does Speed Matter? by Anonymous

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Comment on When It Comes to Broadband, Does Speed Matter? by Anonymous

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Comment on Broadband Caps: Maybe It’s Not Just About TV by Scott from Aus

You should all look at the way ISP's in Australia work. We have had download limits, ever since we had internet. And we are only just getting some decent limits now. I think its basically because bandwidth to overseas cost to much for ISPs not to have limits. There are many different ways it can be done. Most plans are capped and only count downloads. So streaming content is not an issue. There are some plans where uploads are included, and downloads from some providers are free. They also have peak and off-peak limits. And shaped plans, which basically means if you go over your limit, they reduce your bandwidth for the rest of the month and don't charge you overuse fees. However, ISPs that charge overuse fees, normally charge it at a ridiculous rate. Such as $2 p/Mb and have a limit of how much can be charged. Anyway, its a system that promotes competition. But in the end the consumer has to be careful or they have a massive bill to pay.

Comment on Broadband Caps: Maybe It’s Not Just About TV by Scott from Aus

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Here's how President Obama plans to give wireless broadband to 98% of Americans.

Here's how President Obama plans to give wireless broadband to 98% of Americans.

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Here's how President Obama plans to give wireless broadband to 98% of Americans.

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Comment on Kinect and the Power of Big Broadband by Tim

For the millions of people who use the 240 million copies of, just, Windows 7 sold, Redmond-based products make much of an impact in their daily lives. What's a Mac?

Comment on Kinect and the Power of Big Broadband by Tim

Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/01/25/kinect-the-power-of-big-broadband/#comment-582157

Comment on FCC Opens the Door for Metered Broadband by dusanmal

@BrettGlass "Have users pay for the resources they use? Oh, horrors! " Internet access is NOT resource as electricity or water. It is not resource that must be produced as those and than used. If I use x amount of water or electricity producer needs to make/purify it and deliver it to me and than it is gone from the system as I use it, more needed to be made. Internet access as name implies is ACCESS to something. We pay for ability to access any Internet content at any time with only price difference being how fast we can get to it (and that is fair pricing distinction). Say that I and my neighbour pay for the same tier of Internet access to the same ISP. I use Internet occasionally for browsing and e-mail while he watches Netflix 24/7, shares a lot of data on torrent sites and who knows what else. We pay the same. As we should! Because both of us do have access to all of the Internet 24/7 at the same speed of access. That is what we are paying for. If at any moment I want to access Netflix same as him - I CAN! Does some factory need to churn more of that same Netflix content once I or him uses it? -NO. It is "just there" to be accessed. It would be there whether we watched it or not. That is the reason for the same pricing and insanity of "amount of usage" of something that is not spent. Hence "amount of usage" is false concept. We pay for access to whole Internet at any moment at certain speed. That's it.

Comment on FCC Opens the Door for Metered Broadband by dusanmal

Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/12/01/fcc-opens-the-door-for-metered-web-access/#comment-530027

Comment on Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps by goldflowpoints

Phillip, my position is that it sounds reasonable for the cable companies to charge more or less based on speed and quantity of data so long as they do not discriminate based on the content of the data. For example, when I consume more electricity or gas, I expect to pay more for it. Why should it be different for the internet? Should not a heavy gamer or movie downloader, who puts a heavy load on the network that potentially impacts the experience for the majority of lighter users, pay more for such heavy use? I assume Stop the Cap does not agree with this, and I wanted to know if you could help me understand why. Thanks.

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/11/11/charter-follows-comcast-with-broadband-usage-caps/#comment-512216

Comment on Comcast to Install Speed Bumps for Bandwidth Hogs by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] Charter will also introduce a congestion management policy with a protocol-agnostic approach that’s applied only during periods of congestion (Charter notes that congestion is rare on its network). The policy will affect only the heaviest users (less than 1 percent) in small time increments. Those affected will have their bandwidth limited, but no Internet activities will be blocked. For Comcast’s similar policy see our coverage here. [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2008/09/19/comcast-installs-speed-bumps-for-bandwidth-hogs/#comment-509500

Comment on Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] Lamont said that 98 percent of Charter’s 5.2 million customers will be unaffected by the decision to enforce the caps (Charter actually first included caps in its acceptable usage policy in February 2009). However, demand for broadband is increasing every week as folks use more online applications and consumer video from the web. For example, streaming a movie on Netflix uses about 1 GB per hour, so that equates to about 100 hours of Netflix streaming video each month. Services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus that involve high-quality video streams are only becoming more popular and pervasive as more consumers connect their televisions to the web. We made this argument back in 2008 when Comcast implemented its 250 GB per month cap and continue to believe that such caps could act as a threat to innovation. [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2008/06/04/why-tiered-broadband-is-the-enemy-of-innovation/#comment-509499

Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps

Charter Cable plans to start enforcing monthly data caps on its users in December, according to a company spokeswoman. The cable operator will also implement a congestion management plan similar to the one Comcast designed after it got in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission for blocking P2P files in 2008. Charter spokeswoman Anita Lamont emailed me and said Charter will likely post this information to subscribers within the next week (hat tip to DSL Reports who first reported the change was coming).

Comment on Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] that user’s account would be suspended. Unfortunately, for those who get these calls, Charter doesn’t yet have a tool to help those customers measure their use, but is working on one. However, when Comcast implemented its caps, it too lacked a measurement [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2008/08/28/memo-to-comcast-show-me-the-meter-for-metered-broadband/#comment-509498

Podcast with Mia Garlick, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

We recently spoke with Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary for the Digital Economy Branch, Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy.

For Broadband Carriers, Startup Ushers In A Cloud-y Future

It is hard being a broadband provider today — not only are new web services putting extra stress on the network infrastructure but they are also feeling the competitive pressure on their revenues. Against such a backdrop, broadband service providers are looking for ways to make better use of their network infrastructure. The latest trick: use excess processing power in their data centers to help shape and route traffic more effectively and cheaply.

Comment on Why Broadband Changes Everything by Om Malik

Howie I think it is a "work in progress" reality when it comes to WiFi or for that matter any Internet-related technology. Look at where we are today and where we were at the turn of the century -- it is night and day. But as you say, more needs to be done. PS: I hate the WiFi-related issues as well and despite sitting next to the router, I am currently getting about 12 Mbps to the laptop. I plug-in Ethernet cable, well that is running at about 50 Mbps. So I feel your pain :-)

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/26/why-broadband-changes-everything/#comment-441679

Why Broadband Changes Everything

Consumers are using the Internet more often for more things, such as voice communication and streaming video, according to the Cisco Systems Visual Networking Index Study. Peak hours, when Internet traffic is up to 72 percent higher than average, could soon become the new prime time.

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Comment on Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog by Eddie

Craig Settles, its time to start using your grey matter in that noggin of yours. Not *once* in your post here today did you use the word "upload". Clearly you are looking at this and the FCC is too from that of "download" (consumption), i.e.: > 10-year goal of 4 Mbps download speed How amazingly boring. Have you ever thought about upload bandwidth? Craig Settles oh guru that you are, have you been reading GigaOm about cloud computing? Have you ever thought of how great it would be if we could UPLOAD, say, virtual machines (on the order of several gigabytes) that we produce on our ever powerful laptops and desktops into, say, Amazon EC2 (machine images)? VMware images? Imagine how much more experimentation could take place by people working in their local offices and using super computing multi-core machines like a Mac Pro desktop tower and then to be able to take a VMWare virtual machine image and shove it up into the cloud and run it on a cloud-based production system? How could you not have thought about this? How could you not have mentioned the substantial asymmetry we have today in broadband (up/down bandwidth). I don't get it, are you not paying attention to your fellow GigaOm authors and the things they write about?

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/16/broadband-speed-is-the-tail-wagging-the-policy-dog/#comment-299576

Comment on Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog by tom

i always have mixed feelings about this. as much as i like really fast internet I also believe internet connection are more expensive than they should be. more investment in infrastructure also often means higher prices. so i want see the internet get a bit faster but also a lot cheaper. i would certainly be willing to sacrifice some speed for lower cost.

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/16/broadband-speed-is-the-tail-wagging-the-policy-dog/#comment-299376

Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog

As the FCC promotes the National Broadband Plan, it appears it’s convinced making 100 Mbps Internet access speed available to 100 million households within 10 years will bring transformative change to the U.S. One of the expected outcomes is a positive impact on economic development. But will it? More importantly, is there too much emphasis on the ability of speed to drive economic success?

Comment on What You Need To Know About the National Broadband Plan by Broadband Speed Is the Tail Wagging the Policy Dog: Tech News «

[...] the FCC promotes the National Broadband Plan, it appears it’s convinced making 100 Mbps Internet access speed available to 100 million [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/07/national-broadband-plan-will-be-a-day-early-but-fall-short/#comment-299209