Jul 20

Comcast reportedly prepping 305Mbps internet service, aims to put FiOS in its place

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Comcast reportedly prepping 305Mbps internet service, aims to put FiOS in its place

Sure, at 300Mbps Verizon’s FiOS Quantum is lightning fast — but reports say that Comcast is prepping a new tier that’s just a little faster. According to Broadband Reports sources, Comcast’s Neil Smit told employees that the company would be introducing a 305Mbps downstream tier in Verizon FiOS territories “soon,” but neglected to mention a strict timetable. Details regarding pricing and data caps are similarly scarce, of course. Comcast has yet to comment on the rumor, but we’ll let you know if we hear anything official.

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Jul 18

Google Fiber is coming on July 26, Kansas readies to open its pipes

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Google fiber is coming on July 26th, Kansas readies to open the digital flood gates

We’re always being told we need more fiber in our lives. For most people, that might constitute a second bowl of cereal in the morning — for the lucky Google Fiber-receiving residents of Kansas City (or Kansas City) however, it means big spoonfuls of super fast internet. While the project has been in the virtual pipes for a while, finally it looks like we’re ready for the next step. July 26th, Google advises, is the date for diary. Better pencil that one in, and consider any last-minute hardware upgrades.

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Jul 17

Guy Gets So Mad With Internet Service Provider He Breaks Into the Company Wielding an Axe [Wtf]

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I’ve had my share of frustrating episodes with Internet Service Providers, but never to the point of hacking into their servers three times in one day, deleting data, walking into their office wielding an axe and threatening the owner with it. That’s what Bryce Kingsley Quilley did. More »

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Jul 16

ISP data claims The Pirate Bay ban was ineffective

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It looks like the recent ban placed on popular torrent search site The Pirate Bay in the Netherlands and the UK didn’t really help to minimize file-sharing all that much. The BBC reported that a major ISP in the UK saw peer-to-peer activity go back to near normal levels just one week after the ban had been put in place.

Following all the media coverage after the court decision in April, traffic to the site reached record levels with nearly 12 million views on May 1, 2012. The ISP claimed that the traffic had dropped by more than 11 percent after the ban was enforced, however traffic returned back to normal thanks to the rising popularity of proxy sites and the server IP changes made by The Pirate Bay itself.

The data is a little bit vague, however. It can’t distinguish between what was downloaded and from where, so users may have been accessing other sites to download files—perhaps legitimately, such as the downloading of Linux distributions. Still, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) Geoff Taylor who requested the ban be placed admitted that he thinks it was justified.

Taylor said that the BPI would continue to take legal action against sites that harm artists. But even with bans like this put in place, getting around them through proxies and tunneling is actually not illegal in the UK.

[via BBC]


ISP data claims The Pirate Bay ban was ineffective is written by Elise Moreau & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 06

Opera The Pirate Bay workaround surfaces as BitTorrent usage increases in Europe

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If you’re the sort that likes to download TV shows and movies from BitTorrent websites and have bemoaned the blockage of The Pirate Bay, a very simple workaround has surfaced. All you need to do to access The Pirate Bay using the Opera web browser and enable Turbo mode. Turbo mode was intended to compress and accelerate web browsing on slower connections.

The web pages are compressed on Opera servers so there’s less to download and apparently, Opera didn’t block its own servers from accessing The Pirate Bay, so if you’re blocked just enable Turbo mode and you can access the site. Interestingly, even though web users in Europe and other countries are being blocked from The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent use has stayed the same and may even be increasing.

Companies looking to fight piracy such as RIAA and others have successfully blocked access to The Pirate Bay in the UK, Netherlands, and several other countries. What may surprise those against piracy is that one of Europe’s largest ISPs XS4AII published a graph that shows traffic associated with the BitTorrent protocol has changed little between January and June of 2012.


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