Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a weird “throttling” effect on my Internet traffic. I’m on Qwest’s “Fastest” home DSL, and after I start up my BitTorrent downloading and uploading, it fluctuates. Every once in a while it will rapidly descend to 0 kb/s, and the connection goes dead, essentially. I can’t download, upload, surf the web, ping servers, and so on.
Then, after around 5 seconds or so, it ascends back to normal, and …
Digg’s Cloud View, originally uploaded by rob1n1.
The cloud of upcoming news. Ow, my eyes…
Thanks to an article on CNET, I’ve begun to use Miro, formerly known as the Democracy Player, for all my television viewing. I’m subscribed to quite a few feeds on tvRSS.net, and I’m all set for this fall, when all the new seasons start.
So far Miro’s been decently stable for a “public preview,” with no crashes yet but I swear it eats up memory, because for some reason my computer keeps slowing down after Miro’s …
Comcast has finally clarified their definition of “excessive use,” a term they use along with “excessive users” to justify cutting certain customers off.
Charlie Douglas, a spokesperson for Comcast Corporation, called back to clarify what “excessive usage” means and why the company’s actions to end its relationship with these customers is good for gamers. First, Douglas defines Comcast’s “excessive use” as any customer who downloads the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million …
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