On May 2 AT&T U-Verse and DSL customers will be given caps on their monthly bandwidth. Notices detailing the plans will be sent out between March 18 and 31 though we already know what the notices will be saying. Starting in May, AT&T DSL users will be given 150 GB bandwidth caps. U-Verse customers will more »

Verizon DSL and FIOS customers in New York City found themselves cut off from the net Friday afternoon after a router situated between its network and the Internet failed. Despite their assurances that things are back to normal, many Verizon customers are reporting that they are still experiencing issues accessing certain websites. The outage occurred more »

At times like this I am even happier being a Verizon FiOS customer, now in addition to the nice fast Internet speeds that I get at home, Verizon is going to be offering me free Wi-Fi while on the go courtesy of Boingo. According to the details, Verizon has partnered with Boingo and will be offering free Wi-Fi to both Verizon Broadband and FiOS customers.

As of approximately 4am EDT, Verizon customers began experience errors when trying to send and recieve email. The errors began as server timeouts but quickly moved to more ominous ones such as “Server Error: 0x800CCC90 Server Response: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Service Not Available.” Users who attempted to log in at the Verizon.net website were met with more »

This is one story of hacking a website and making a change to your account that seems to have had a happy ending. According to the story, Douglas Mezzer and his roommate had a DSL account with iiNet and everything was going great until his roommate moved out. The DSL continued to work, however the more »

With the number of home-based entertainment and productivity applications that are running over home networks growing by leaps and bounds, some Wireless-G routers just can’t handle users’ demands.

Netgear saw this problem, and as a result, developed a new Wireless-N technology, which they feel is leaps and bounds above anything out there now. The “Green” crowd will also appreciate Netgear’s new products since they are eco-friendly.

Whether it is just curiosity (we had DSL at the last place, let’s try cable broadband) or America is bandwidth hungry, cable ISPs are gobbling up customers much faster than DSL, according to Q2 records announced by Pew. In fact, Comcast says 2/3rds of its new customers are coming from DSL.

So what is it? Bigger bundling discounts from cable operators? Are the DSL defectors finding faster speeds and more than happy to pay extra to get it? Alley Insider suggests it is all about speed. But is the layperson that hip to know how fast downloads should be?

It seems like its been forever since we have posted anything Vonage related aside from patent disputes and personal changes that we almost forgot they were still around. This latest news however seems to be positive, Vonage and Covad Communications have announced a partnership that will allow Vonage to offer a DSL service. The new more »

Plug your PC into a wall electrical outlet, and that’s all your need to surf the web at high speeds. Tell the cable and DSL service providers where they can stuff their plugs, while you ride the wave of yet another next-generation technology at cheaper prices.

Well…not yet.

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the concept of broadband over power line (BPL), which the Federal Communications Commission has been touting since 2003 as possible pricing competition for cable and DSL providers. It’s only a pilot program in a handful of cities, but the FCC commissioned studies on the technology and wanted an accelerated rollout of the program. Now you can scratch one of those cities off the list, while the FCC studies themselves are being attacked by amateur radio operators.

Comcast has introduced a faster internet service, dubbed the “Extreme High-Speed Internet” and boasting of a 50mbps download speed. This is more than six times faster that the current consumer speed and 10 times faster that Qwest’s DSL Internet Service. Comcast is initially testing the new internet service in the Twin Cities of Minnesota but more »