Submitted by Jesse on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 08:06
The FCC has released its report on broadband speed.
The issue has to do with the way the ISPs advertise their speeds: typically it's something like "up to XXX mbps." That leaves a lot of wiggle room, and in the past that wriggle room has been pretty large with actual speeds being half the advertised "up to" speed.
Submitted by Jesse on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 09:18
An excellent article by Stephen Shakland on CNET about the conversion from IPv4 to IPv6. The crunch is looming, and conversion to the longer IPv6 Internet addresses looms. He rightly points out that in some ways it's similar to the Y2K problem: some hardware and software will not be able to handle the new addresses. It's not a lights-out scenario (despite a lot of media hype Y2K wasn't) but there are important points raised.
Submitted by Jesse on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 08:43
On The Roundtable yesterday we talked about some of the issues about broadband particularly in areas where it's not available. There is another way to look at the problem: from the other side.
We do know how to minimize broadband requirements, and doing so might help people but at the potential cost of making broadband building efforts less urgent. The question is do we want broadband in all its glory or do we want people to get things done even if they don't have broadband?
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