Squirrels Continue to Be Awful By Wrecking People's Internet
Level 3 Communications, a major ISP, has a serious beef with squirrels. It turns out the little rodents have a penchant for chewing through their fiber optic lines. They actually account for 17% of the...
View ArticleIran Hopes to Be Rid of Meddlesome Internet by August
Iran has had it up to here with the Internet—Google's easy access to information, iTunes' funneling in of Western Media, and don't even get them started on Stuxnet—all totally the Internet's fault. So,...
View ArticleIran Denies It's Shutting Down the Internet in August, Merely Building a New...
Iran has issued a strongly worded statement denying reports from yesterday that the country planned to shut itself off from the rest of the Internet. Quite the contrary—Iran is just building its own,...
View ArticleGuy Gets So Mad With Internet Service Provider He Breaks Into the Company...
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...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Has Real World Speeds of 700 Mbps
Google Fiber is being installed all over Kansas City right now and people are so happy about the blazing fast speed that they've posted pictures of their speed tests. It's ridiculous. People with...
View ArticleHow To Ditch Your Cable Internet Provider Forever
You've had it up to here with being treated more like a revenue stream than a customer by your cable internet provider and are ready to jump ship. Fantastic, but if not to a competing telco, then to...
View ArticleVerizon FiOS Is The Best Cable Bundle, Says Consumer Reports
Cable companies routinely score lower in customer satisfaction than almost any other consumer service, and a large part of that is the fact that most Americans can't choose their cable provider. But if...
View ArticleThe Secret Deals That Make YouTube Buffer
If you ever find yourself having to wait for YouTube to buffer video—but ads, they load just fine—then don't worry, you're not alone. In fact, it's likely you're on the receiving end of a corporate...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Continues the Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
In a Wired piece published recently, Ryan Singel assails Google's newfound hypocrisy when it comes to net neutrality. And he's right. Having spent many years fighting to stop Internet Service Providers...
View ArticleReport: Amazon Is Testing Its Own Wireless Network
According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon has tested its own wireless network. As in a network that people would use to connect to the Internet. As in axing the middle man and essentially becoming a...
View ArticleYour Internet Connection Is Almost Certainly Slower Than Advertised
Does your internet always seem too slow? Chances are, it is: a study by the Wall Street Journal suggests that the majority of ISPs deliver slower speeds than they advertise.Read more...
View ArticleNow YouTube Is Shaming ISPs For Slow Streaming Video
Sometime in the past few days, YouTube started showing a new error bar on slow-loading videos. "Experiencing interruptions? Find out why," it implores. Clicking through takes you to Google's Video...
View ArticleHow Far Companies Will Go to Protect You From Copyright Bullies
When somebody wants to silence speech, they often use the quickest method available. When the speech is hosted on a major online platform, that method is usually a copyright or trademark complaint....
View ArticleToday's Net Neutrality Proposal Would Help Fix Phone Throttling Bullshit
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler just dropped some serious net neutrality knowledge on the US. In short: he will be proposing that the internet be reclassified under an updated...
View ArticleISP (Quietly) Acknowledges That BitTorrent Doesn't Equal Piracy
It’s rare that we mention ISPs vigorously defending their customers against overstepping lawsuits, but here we are: Cox, which is being sued by a couple music producers, is going to lengths to point...
View ArticleFormer Aereo CEO Wants To Blanket Your Home In Gigabit Internet
Aereo was the bad boy of the cord-cutting revolution, until it was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court and scrapped for parts. Undeterred by that monumental setback ex-CEO Chet Kanojia has another...
View ArticleAll the Fucked Up Things Comcast Is Doing to Compete With Google Fiber
Comcast is notorious for being a bunch of raging dickholes that we’d like cleave from our lives. But the company is also, you know, the largest internet service provider in the United States , one that...
View ArticleAn ISP Forwarded Its Users' Sent Email to a Single Inbox
Forget Inbox Zero. Yesterday, the British telecomm company BT managed to forward outgoing email from its customers’ accounts to a single email address.Read more...
View ArticleComcast Thinks It's Totally Chill to Charge For Privacy
Image: GizmodoComcast has logged yet another tally in the competition for Shittiest Company In Existence.Read more...
View ArticleNew York Sues Over Slow Internet Speeds: 'Time Warner Cable Has Been Ripping...
Today, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit accusing Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, of lying to customers about the internet speeds it advertised and the reliability of its...
View ArticleCordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity
According to pretty much everyone, we’re in the “golden age” of television. But new data shows a huge jump in people who are ready to ditch cable as well as disastrous satisfaction ratings for the...
View ArticleComcast Accused of Sabotaging Small ISP Owner's Business By Destroying His...
The former owner of a small internet service provider in South Texas is suing Comcast, accusing the telecom giant of intentionally—or by way of its own negligence—destroying his business and seizing...
View ArticleThe 5 Biggest US ISPs Actually Think They're Ready for Streaming Games
In a lot of ways, game streaming services like Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud could be great solutions for casual gamers. Instead of needing to buy new consoles or upgrade their computers every few...
View ArticleHuzzah, Now ISPs Can't Charge Rental Fees for Your Own Dang Modem
If you’ve ever wondered why you still have to pay your internet provider rental fees for a modem even after you bought it, I have some good news: A new U.S. law is shutting that shit down from here on...
View ArticleISP in Idaho Planned to Block Facebook and Twitter to Punish 'Censorship'
Responding to the public backlash over Twitter and Facebook’s decision to boot President Trump from their platforms, an internet service provider in rural Idaho told customers that it would block the...
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