Post Tagged with: "Comcast"

Weekend Recap: August 17th 2009

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. [engadget] IBM’s future microchips will be built using DNA [...]

Apple, Online Shopping, Rumors, The Internet, TV, Weekend Recap August 17, 2009 10:59 am 0 comments

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

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 the cap once. Maybe we’ve been slacking… Well bad [...]

Announcements, The Internet January 28, 2009 6:31 pm 0 comments

AT&T Joins The "Hate Me" Bandwagon

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 users get the larger, 150GB cap).  [...]

The Internet November 4, 2008 2:23 pm 0 comments

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

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 [...]

TV October 15, 2008 10:36 pm 0 comments

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

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, however, HD channels and [...]

TV September 9, 2008 8:35 pm 1 comment

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

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 (at 10 MB/photo) Users who go over the 250GB/month quota [...]

The Internet August 28, 2008 7:56 pm 0 comments

Olympic games may mean trouble for comcast subscribers

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 that mean for you the [...]

The Internet August 6, 2008 10:09 pm 0 comments

Wii Like It, But It's Still Comcast

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 more than enough cause to dislike them. And [...]

Announcements, The Internet, Video Games July 22, 2008 9:04 pm 0 comments

Weekend Recap – June 23rd 2008

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 viral video. This one is very interesting [...]

Randomness, The Internet, TV, Weekend Recap June 23, 2008 11:46 am 0 comments
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