“Speed” is the primary way people describe their Internet connection but actual speed test results are often misleading or completely wrong. A recent paper, Understanding broadband speed measurements, by Steve Bauer, David Clark and William Lehr reports on their review of 400,000 tests made using the FCC-endorsed M-Labs network diagnostic tool. Fully 38% of those …
Originally posted 30 November 2010 at 15:31 hrs. Hot in the past 48 hours of networking news is the Comcast – Level 3 dispute. Comcast paints this as a Net Neutrality issue while others call it just another peering dispute. Yes, this is a peering dispute, but it’s different from the disputes of the past …
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Originally published 5 November 2010 at 08:10 hrs. Late yesterday, a relatively diverse, and hopefully significant, group of advocates for the Open Internet filed reply comments in the FCC’s proceeding “Further inquiry into two under-developed issues in the Open Internet Proceeding.” Credit goes to Seth Johnson for making this happen. Let me tell you why …
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Originally published 19 October 2010 12:58 hrs. Rebecca Wetzel of Network World attended the MassTLC Innovation Unconference last week, including our session on broadband disruption, “A ‘Freemium’ approach to radically improving broadband Internet in America”. Now she’s written an excellent article on netBlazr entitled, “Ad Hoc Fixed Wireless Networks–Should Carriers Be Afraid?”
Originally posted 15 October at 17:12 hrs. I was at the Mass Tech Leadership Council’s Innovation Unconference yesterday. As usually it was a great event. I went prepared to run one session myself, on Broadband Disruption. I even prepared a slide deck just in case. As it turns out, we ended up just having a …
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This is personal rant from Brough Turner… My Frustration with US Broadband I worked on US broadband policy issues at least part-time from the early 2000s and I’m very frustrated! In the US, the Internet backbone is extremely competitive. Unfortunately, most of our “middle mile” connectivity and all of our fixed local access connections are, …
This is a restart. We launched the first netBlazr website in July 2010. It included a blog which accumulated six posts in the course of 2H2010. In December 2010, with our network up and running, we relaunched our website using the WordPress web content management platform. If you’ve been following our RSS feed, let me …