Several recent sources of IPv6 adoption statistics
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Mon, 11/21/11 - 10:01pm.
People have debated the rate of adoption of IPv6 for years. Many people estimate the worldwide use of IPv6 through their own knot-hole view of the Internet. It is difficult to determine the amount of IPv6 traffic on the Internet because it depends on where you measure. The estimates and measurements have varied widely, but one thing is consistent; the amount of IPv6 Internet traffic is increasing.
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RIM, Time Warner, Juniper, Comcast all targeted by angry Tweeters
Submitted by Alpha Doggs on Mon, 11/07/11 - 2:38pm.
RIM really can't win these days, taking the early hits for today's Internet outage that appears to have stemmed from router problems and issues within backbone provider Level 3's network, not within the BlackBerry network itself. But BlackBerry customers have last month's big outage still fresh in mind. Read more
Truth is, Cisco's IPv6 support among the rest of its products remains spotty.
Submitted by Julie Bort on Thu, 06/16/11 - 2:07pm.
Cisco has finally released IPv6 support as a free firmware upgrade for its flagship Linksys E4200 wireless router. The promised IPv6 support is late, either by two months, or by six months, or by years, depending on how you look at it, but late is better than never.
Here is the link to download it, quietly made available on June 14. (More on that release date in a minute.) Read more
Updated: Service disruption hits much of East Coast
Submitted by Paul McNamara on Mon, 11/29/10 - 9:06am.
Comcast customers on the East Coast looking to get an early jump on their Cyber Monday shopping last night were stymied by a DNS-related Internet service disruption. However, a number were able to fashion their own fixes to the problem after being directed to alternatives such as OpenDNS and Google Public DNS. Read more
Separating content from transport is even more important than separating church and state. There's a lesson in here for wireless as well...
Submitted by Craig Mathias on Tue, 08/31/10 - 9:54am.
As you've probably heard, Comcast, the cable-TV/broadband giant, is buying NBC Universal, a/k/a NBC television. Let me cut to the chase - there's absolutely no way this should be allowed by the regulators, a/k/a the government. Such a merger is flat-out dangerous to the public interest although it will of course generate great gobs of money for Comcast and its real customers, advertisers. And guess where that money comes from - you and me. But there's a much larger issue at stake here, one with implications for what is becoming the most important media channel of all - wireless. Read more
Site gives insight into IPv6 usage
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Fri, 05/07/10 - 12:32pm.
Many of you are already familiar with how Comcast is leading the way with their IPv6 trials and moving forward with their deployment. I am anxiously awaiting the results of this trial and find out how much more native IPv6 traffic will result from having IPv6-capable broadband Internet access. Comcast has recently created an IPv6 Adoption Monitor that gives us insight into the growth of IPv6 usage. Read more
As would be expected, contentious issue remains contentious
Submitted by Paul McNamara on Tue, 04/06/10 - 2:10pm.
A court ruling today in favor of Comcast and against the FCC's vision of 'Net neutrality is generating decidedly mixed reactions, which should surprise no one who has followed this white-hot debate over the years.
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An FCC spokesperson said in a statement:
"The FCC is firmly committed to promoting an open Internet and to policies that will bring the enormous benefits of broadband to all Americans. It will rest these policies -- all of which will be designed to foster innovation and investment while protecting and empowering consumers - on a solid legal foundation. Today's court decision invalidated the prior Commission's approach to preserving an open Internet. But the Court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet; nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end." Read more
Service providers advertize both blazing downloads and advocate rate-limiting
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Tue, 12/15/09 - 11:02am.
You can't help but notice the volume of mobile provider ads on TV where company A complains about the lack of coverage or speed of company B's wireless network. We haven't seen this type of mudslinging since last year's political elections. Each service provider tries to highlight how their download speeds are faster than the competition. However, they are also secretly or not-so-secretly planning to limit the bandwidth available to their subscribers. Read more
IPv6 was a Key Focus Topic at NANOG46 and Cisco Live
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Tue, 07/21/09 - 7:30pm.
Although I wasn't able to attend in person the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG46) meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 14 to June 17, 2009, I did review the presentations from the conference. I was astounded by the number of IPv6-related presentations at this NANOG meeting and the IPv6 presentations at Cisco Live. There were some exciting announcements made at these meetings regarding IPv6 deployments that I wanted to call your attention to. Read more
We start this week with an interesting question my friend Dan O'Neill (La Jolla, Calif.) raised in a list we both subscribe to. Dan remotely manages some 16,000 networked embedded Linux servers around the world (how cool is that?) as part of his business. Dan's problem is this:
"Where can I find a live or nearly live discussion of network outage problems? The unofficial #nanog [North American Network Operators Group] IRC channel has been overrun with kiddies for years so that's not valuable anymore.
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Submitted by Layer 8 on Thu, 04/16/09 - 3:51pm.
The Federal Trade Commission today chalked up two more Do Not Call rule victories as it won fines against Comcast and Directv for not only violating that rule but for re-calling consumers who specifically had told the companies not to call them again. Read more
Submitted by Source Seeker on Thu, 01/29/09 - 8:10am.
Google's launch of M-Lab to help end users understand and identify when ISPs are throttling back performance puts some teeth behind its 'Net neutrality stance. Now, instead of waiting for researchers to uncover ISPs blocking and degrading service for things like BitTorrent, users themselves can simply use the tools to confirm (or allay) their suspicions. Read more
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 4:48pm
1) is Verizon just as guilty?
2) How can I know if I reach the 250 GB limit? I don't see my usage anywhere on my statement or when I view my account online. There should be an obligation to show you where you are in relation to an imposed limit.
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 11:33am
Comcast beat both AT&T and VZ on 40G backbones and was the first to use a 100G router interface. 100G optics are far less cool than 100G IP links
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 6:30am
Comcast recently imposed bandwidth limitations which is the first salvo in a pay-per-use ISP model. It's only a matter of time. With more bandwidth and dark fiber than they know what to do with, the ISPs are angling to put the frameworks in place to start up-selling their base. How many more people can connect? Once they've got saturation the only revenue growth will come from adding new services or increasing the billable time, ergo bandwidth tiers.
Hopefully, there will continue to be competition for the on-ramps and keep things competitive. But, given our government lawmakers propensity to cave to special interest, I can potentially see BIG CABLE continuing to have their way with the public whenever they feel like it.
It sort of makes me feel dirty....
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 1:05pm
"It's far more likely that the cap is in place to make sure that Comcast's network cannot be relied upon by competitors for high quality video delivery."
Spot on, I completely agree. HD content over the internet is the direction we're headed and Comcast is positioning themselves squarely in a position to control it. The cap buys them time to figure out how to prevent a transition from their carefully controlled content lineup to a free-for-all.
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 9:21pm
I use far less than the 250gig / month but I chose comcast because there were no limits advertised when I signed up. I think if 1% of the users are over the 250gig then why does a limitation need to be in place? It's yet another money grab by a company and other companies will follow suit (watch the bandwidth cap drop as well)
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 9:55am
Thanks to my better judgment based on my cable service with them, I just knew not to trust them with my Internet connection.
Submitted by Sevcik and Wetzel on Wed, 08/13/08 - 8:57am.
The Comcast/BitTorrent saga got us thinking that the current chapter of the ‘net neutrality debate is playing out in the absence of the one thing that will lead us down a sensible path—facts. The current debate reads like a "he said, she said" script. Comcast argued that its actions to modify BitTorrent behavior were in response to a very real problem of access network congestion. But from what we can figure out there were no facts to prove a problem at all, much less one serious enough to warrant Comcast's actions. User advocates, on the other hand, argued that Comcast blocked BitTorrent around the clock, while ComCast countered that it only throttled back heavy users at peak traffic times. Who was right? Read more
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 8:18am
It would appear to me that Comcast is taking a new tactic. I am a game mod developer and one of the ways I release updates to my games is through bittorrent since the files are usually small and are not illegal for someone to download.
Lately I have noticed when I turn on my bittorrent software within minutes I lose my internet connection through Comcast. I turn off the software, reset my router and everything works fine. I then turn the software back on and once again I lose the connection.
I can go hours with no problems, but the second I try to release the torrent I am booted. I find it difficult to believe this is coincidence.
