Recently, our Support reps have noticed a recurring issue with netBlazr customers making use of devices that are running iOS 14. While this issue is related to your router’s settings and not netBlazr’s network, we wanted to provide written detailed instructions on how to solve this issue. What’s going on? Many iPhone users with iOS …
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Boston—April 10, 2015—netBlazr, the fastest, most affordable Internet access for home and business in Boston, today announced that it has secured $675,000 in a funding round from a group of local individual angel investors. “With a market ever more knowledgeable and accepting of cable unbundling, the time was right for a strategic raise to support …
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Brough gave a talk on Internet Peering at last year’s Optical conference, OFC 2014 in San Francisco. With all the debate over net neutrality, it’s more relevant than ever. Here’s a draft of a paper he wrote to go along with his presentation. Impact of Internet Peering on Network Architectures and Economics Brough Turner netBlazr …
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Dear James, Thank you for contacting me about the Supreme Court’s decision in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo. As you may know, the Supreme Court of the United States held in a 6-3 decision that Aereo violated broadcasters’ copyrights in providing a service that let subscribers watch local broadcast television through the Internet using small antennas …
Wispapalooza, the largest annual broadband industry conference, was held in Las Vegas, NV this year from October 11th to the 17th. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai gave the keynote address, talking about WISPs and how their innovation does more than provide people with internet access, but also changes lives. In his address he mentioned netBlazr saying: …
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People love numbers and they especially love hearing about the fastest speeds, but what do the numbers really mean? At what point do these super high speeds that marketers are pushing start getting negligible? From FCC research we know that web browsing benefits from increased speed, but tapers off around 6Mbps (graph below). In their …
Voice over IP or VoIP is a way to use your Internet service for making phone calls. Phone calls are converted into data and are sent through the Internet just like an e-mail would. It is perfect for people who want to cut the cable and stop being forced into getting bundles from the phone-internet-television …
People are moving away from traditional television options and moving towards streaming services, but it can be hard to pick the right streaming device, there are over 70 different ones on the market! To make the transition a little easier, we’ve compiled a list of the more popular ones and added our recommendations: Apple TV …
netBlazr was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project grant for $718k from the National Science Foundation. The grant is to develop a multiple antenna, transparent wireless node. This device would bring new functionality to the marketplace and eliminate much of the complexity we currently face in connecting customers to the netBlazr network. Previously, …
“I really want to get netBlazr for my apartment, but my landlord said it’s illegal to mount an antenna and that I will be fined by the city for it, what are my options?” There are actually no laws prohibiting the placement of rooftop antennas in Boston, even in the historical districts of the city. …