To simulate what would happen on a cell tower, I tested BitTorrent on a Starbucks hotspot with a T1 backhaul during off hours to see how much jitter I could induce. The resulting damage was brutal.

A four part series examining the second hand video game market, that will look at Downloadable Content, Online Gaming, and the Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc 9th Cour of Appeals ruling.

A political piece last week in AEI’s American addressed the recent controversy over political endorsements by the VFW – PAC.
The article had a broader point relevant to the ambit of Digital Society, which is that many current problems in public policy involve issues of the type known as collective action problems…

There’s an old saying that you never know how deep a puddle is until you step in it. Well, the lobbying groups favoring “net neutrality” regulations stepped in a puddle last week, and they’re going to have trouble coming up for air. The “puddle” was deciding to include the “retransmission consent” battle going on between Cablevision and Fox in the “net neutrality” rhetoric. The classic “just hold your nose and jump” line came from Public Knowledge, when they opined that Fox’s blocking of online access to their programs on Cablevision’s broadband connection was one of the “the grossest violations of the open Internet committed by a U.S. company.”

For streaming video lovers, the past year has been rough with Facebook slashing video quality in half and even a hint of Hulu dropping quality.  Then I started seeing some recent 720P videos on YouTube dropping from 2 Mbps to 1 Mbps which was a very alarming trend so I wanted to verify this by [...]

Wallsten examines the October issue of Scientific American in which an article declares that broadband in America is behind and that, “…prices in the United States are too high and speeds are too low.” Wallsten reports that the article calls for three things to be changed to improve the situation:

The news today is that the Television networks are blocking Google TV, a new streaming video set top box appliance for the living room, from accessing their web streams.  It’s not surprising that Google is being very tame about it and not crying foul since it wasn’t that long ago when Google blocked Syabas from [...]

According to Sandvine, via Connected Planet, “Netflix video streaming traffic already accounts for more than 20 percent of the downstream traffic in the U.S. between the peak usage hours of 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.” This provides an opportunity for advocates of Net Neutrality to get real about how they would treat specific business practices, [...]

We’ve heard countless stories from the media stemming from a flawed FCC report that U.S. broadband providers were ripping off consumers by delivering only half of the bandwidth they advertise. Now a new study with the most accurate data exonerates American ISPs.

We been told countless times that the United States has a lagging broadband infrastructure compared to other first world nations. But how is it that the U.S. leads in broadband data consumption second only to South Korea? The answer seems to lie in abundant and inexpensive server and core Internet capacity.