Bandwidth restriction by the ISP directly is something most U.S. users don’t have to deal with – yet. But other countries have had to deal with monthly bandwidth limitations more or less since broadband was first introduced in their part of the world. Here in the U.S., Comcast is gunning to impose monthly data restrictions widely, however...

This may offer a bit of comfort to some with slower broadband connections. For US internet users, your tax dollars have now proven that the speed of broadband is 50% slower than what it’s claimed to be. For those that would say, "Did we need to spend a bunch of tax money to figure something out everybody already knew?" In fact, yes. The problem...

Fortunately in modern times most states and towns in the United States have wised up and have informative web sites. But unfortunately these web sites can still be difficult to locate – even with a Google search. Not to worry, there’s a really good web site to help you out with this: StateLocalGov.net I really like this site because it’s more...

Happy Monday, everyone. If you live on the eastern part of the United States, you most likely woke up to a crapload of nature’s white goodness this morning and make have been forced to stay home from school or work. Your only thought is probably, "Oh, great. (sarcasm..) When will this be over?" Here’s a few links to help you out. If you...

One would think since the USA created internet (yes we did) we’d be top dog as far as adoption of broadband is concerned. We’re not. In fact, we’re in 15th place. On average, the fastest download last-mile speed is 2.3mbps. Just to give you an indication of how slow our connectivity speed is, Japan (who always kicks everyone’s ass in...

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