Posts Tagged ‘Comcast’

Weekend Recap: August 17th 2009

Share Here are some of the tech news from the weekend. Western Digital’s new TV media player (WD TV-2). Its way better then their first version. [engadget] Take a look at the MacBook Micro! [engadget] Nissan’s “The Leaf”, to be able to get 367mpg! Wow, that’s impressive....
August 17th, 2009 | Apple, Online Shopping, Rumors, TV, The Internet, Weekend Recap | Read More

Cox cable living up to their name: Testing new "Time Sensitive" Bandwidth Throttling

Share Hard to believe it’s been over half a year since Comcast announced their Protocol-agnostic throttling method, and nearly half since they set a hard cap at 250GB/Month, eh? There’s at least one TNMS Employee that’s surprised he (and his 2 roommates none the less) hasn’t hit...
January 28th, 2009 | Announcements, The Internet | Read More

AT&T Joins The "Hate Me" Bandwagon

Share Folks with broadband Internet in Reno, Nevada became inconvenienced this week as AT&T started up a trial period of bandwidth caps on its users.  The cap is anywhere from 20GB to 150GB per month.  Unlike Comcast’s caps, AT&T is capping ALL users and not just new ones (though preexisting...
November 4th, 2008 | The Internet | Read More

Panasonic announces first Tru2way TV, Comcast plans more ways to charge you

Share For those of you that have Cable and have a set top box, have you ever wished those damn pieces of crap could just get out of the picture? I mean you got this sweet TV and a neat wall mount and then you still need a damn dresser or another shelf system to hold your Cable box. I could complain for...
October 15th, 2008 | TV | Read More

Could AT&T's new cable TV service be better than the rest?!

Share No really! As a current Verizon FiOS subscriber, standard definition cable boxes are $5/month and a hi-definition cable box with DVR is $20/month. For Comcast, it is $5/month for a standard def. box and a hi-def box with DVR is $22/month. DirectTV has a flat rate of $5/month for each receiver,...
September 9th, 2008 | TV | Read More

Its Official! Comcast sets monthly broadband cap at 250GB/month!

Share Sounds ludicrous? That’s because it is! Comcast claims that with a 250GB bandwidth cap, users could: * Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email) * Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song) * Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie) * Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos...
August 28th, 2008 | The Internet | Read More

Olympic games may mean trouble for comcast subscribers

Share Gizmodo explains the recent disadvantage of having Comcast or Time Warner as your internet service provider. As Dave had mentioned in a prior post, Comcast has a monthly bandwidth quota of about 250GB but now, Time Warner wants to start using 40GB as their high end bandwidth quota. What does...
August 6th, 2008 | The Internet | Read More

Wii Like It, But It's Still Comcast

Share The Consumerist has alerted us to a new promotional offer from Comcast. New subscribers who sign up between July 28th and August 17th will receive a frickin’ Nintendo Wii. I really wish that I liked Comcast, because this is a pretty sweet incentive. Unfortunately, they’ve given me...
July 22nd, 2008 | Announcements, The Internet, Video Games | Read More

Weekend Recap – June 23rd 2008

Share Not a whole lot this weekend… Hit the links for the full stories. Comcast misleads customers and public about service – Yahoo! Ice found on Mars! – CrunchGear A tent that charges cell phones off of wind and solar energy doubles as temporary shelter – Gizmodo Finally, a...
June 23rd, 2008 | Randomness, TV, The Internet, Weekend Recap | Read More
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