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Pandemic causes the internet to buckle under the strain of excessive use

The impacts of telecommuting, shelter-in-place laws and home quarantines resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak are starting to impact broadband speeds across a number of U.S. cities, a new report has found. According to broadband analysis site BroadbandNow,...

Comcast “Business Class” Service… or lack of.

Internet Connectivity

Sometimes, you really have to wonder about Comcast. Sure, they position themselves as a great business (by running a monopoly), but consistently have the worst customer service ratings in the world. The reason for that is simple: they hire people for so little money,...

Decades Of Failed Promises From Verizon: It Promises Fiber To Get Tax Breaks… Then Never Delivers

DLP News, Internet Connectivity

A decade ago, we wrote about how Verizon had made an agreement in Pennsylvania in 1994 that it would wire up the state with fiber optic cables to every home in exchange for tax breaks equalling $2.1 billion. In exchange for such a massive tax break, Verizon...

Why 2014 might be the beginning of the end for passwords

DLP News, Internet Connectivity, Security

If there’s one legacy Internet protocol that really needs to go, it’s the password. Given how easy it’s become for hackers to decipher most passwords and how annoying it’s become to memorize multiple passwords that all require capital letters, numbers and symbols,...

LA plans citywide gigabit fiber for homes and businesses

DLP News, Google, Internet Connectivity

Los Angeles is about to unleash one of the most ambitious city-led broadband projects to date, with the goal of bringing fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and all businesses. Next month, the city plans to issue an RFP (request for proposals) “that would...

Why would an IT company do this?

DLP News, Internet Connectivity, Storage

Sometimes, you have to wonder why an IT company would put together something with this level of work. Is it complacency? Laziness? Lack of time? Turns out it was just amateur work. If you hire an IT company, and this is what they hand off to you as a...