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Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment The source of the problem has proved as elusive as Iraqi WMDs, with both the ISP and BT struggling to pinpoint this ghost in the machine. Country folk deserve reliable broadband as much as city dwellers, says... [04 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Squeeze more speed out of your broadband
Comment Rather than clean up, I recently let curiosity get the better of me and decided to conduct some speed tests to make sure I am getting the most out of my dual ISP service. Compiled at my home near Woodbridge, UK, and... [20 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uncommon mode failure
Comment To be precise: a common network/server/ISP failure has taken out a clutch of wi-fi services in the town over the same period my hotel service is having difficulty. Compiled at my hotel in Newbury, UK, and dispatched to... [29 Apr 2009]
How to recover from a data breach
Comment Key contacts may include not only people in your own company from areas such as the legal department, human resources and marketing, but also someone with your ISP or software provider. The best defence against hackers... [09 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment My ISP charges me for an up to 8Mbps connection and I get 1Mbps. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Readers were back in full swing... [12 Jan 2009]
Inbox: ID guinea pigs, snooping database and CIO standards
Comment The whole scheme is a total waste of public money, including the stealth tax imposed by higher ISP fees. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives... [17 Oct 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment With ISP prices as low as £3.25 per month from one provider, and a lot coming in below £5 per month, and some PCs and laptops now costing less than £200, getting online is no longer expensive or a big deal. [25 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why your broadband's so slow
Comment Surely the telco/netco/ISP quarter will also use this information to defend their delivery against contracts that suggest huge speed increases. Initial vibes received in Jamestown, California. More comments picked up in... [03 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment In reply, the site advised its users to switch to a system that changed IP addresses to avoid ISP filters and circumvent the ban. Downloading or sharing pirated materials? You're now more likely to get caught. [03 Sep 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I don't care what an ISP "thinks", if they warn or try to disconnect someone I know then they'd better be able to prove in a court of law that they are in the right. And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at... [15 Jul 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment Over the past decade, as digital music, video and films have become the province of anyone with an ISP, whole industries have been transformed with each click of the mouse. The film and music industries have been turned... [01 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping... [10 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment I'd put my money on human stupidity taking over and a PC viewer witch-hunt being declared, along with ISP controls to stop it all and preserve the sacred cow of old. When I was a child there was no television. [26 Mar 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's... [21 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up The prospect of prosecuting customers and adopting the mantle of some kind of online law enforcement agency is not what your average ISP would welcome. So who is going to cover the additional costs for the... [15 Feb 2008]
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