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Broadband News
Posted on August 11th, 2004 2 commentsIt seems the next round of bandwidth cap increases for both downstream and upstream will come in the form of more expensive plans and tweaking at existing rates:
- ArsTechnica: Cox turns up the speed, slashes prices
- $39.95/mo for (4Mbps/512Kbps), $54.95/mo (5Mbps/768Kbps), Non-cable TV customers have to suck down an additional $10 (Cable companies just can’t resist that lameass tie-in!)
- DSL Reports: Cable Speeds Up (Again)
- Time Warner offers 6Mbps/512Kbps for $64.95-$84.95 (based on how much they screw you over on Cable TV), Article discusses how Canadian cable companies are far ahead of US divisions when it comes to bandwidth
- TelephonyOnline: Upstream without a paddle
- It is really lame how providers are just finally now approaching 768Kbps upstream. 384Kbps is bad enough…
- Speculation about Verizon’s 3.0Mbps/768Kbps upgrade continues…
- Apparently the sales people are about as knowledgeable about availability and pricing of the new option as their customers are… As in… Not very knowledgeable at all.
In other news my Verizon DSL service seems to be working well at 1.5Mbps/384Kbps. The modem claims to be syncing at the over provisioned rate. Unfortunately Verizon forces you to install crap under Windows to create an account and it hijacks Internet Explorer’s branding and installs some spyware like crud. Took me a good half hour to clean out all of the junk that was installed and I still have not figured out where to disable the “Internet Explorer provided by Verizon Online” junk. It may be a time for a reinstall… Sigh.
2 responses to “Broadband News”
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Deranged Fencer August 11th, 2004 at 08:07
To fix the evil rebranding of internet exploder:
1. Gaze upon your branded logo for the last time.
2. Close all browser windows.
3. Go to Start, choose Run, and type or paste “rundll32 iedkcs32.dll,Clear” without the quotes.
4. Hit Enter.
5. Open a browser window. Jump with joy as you gaze upon your default browser branding. -
the shizzle November 6th, 2004 at 12:16
If you reinstall go the XP route. You can setup a PPOE connection without using Verizon’s crap client.
If you are in the need of uploading a great deal you should consider SDSL. Upstream bandwidth caps on broadband have many uses including the spread of evil. I don’t believe that providers even considered this when broadband was first rolled out years ago. The concept was simple. People will be downloading so they wont need a large pipe upstream.