All Blog Posts Tagged 'broadband' (6)

Because of it position on the globe and the amount of people living there, Most of Australia doesn’t have unlimited broadband. Instead people who want to go on the web must buy a certain amount of internet "quota". For example a ten GB download per month would cost in the region of 40-60 Australian dollars depending on the download speed. Let me put that in perspective for you. That would let you download ten to twenty movies, or a few hundred songs. Compare that to the European cost, Unlimited… Continue

According to this article from Itnewswire The Australian Broadband Minister Senator Stephen Conroy considers himself to be a geek: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/101939,nbn-conroy-gets-his-geek-hat-on.aspx Paul_Bennett Continue

This is a post from http://agwired.com/2009/03/11/rural-broadband-at-a-glance/ I hope you will comment this and spread it if you want. Rural Broadband At A Glance Take a look at this interesting document from USDA, “Rural Boradband At A Glance 2009 Edition.” It points out how fast farmers are adopting the use of the internet for business purposes and clearly outlines the challenges many areas of the country still have in getting broadband access. It has a number of interesting graphs like the… Continue

As technology grows every day the broadband speeds in many countries are just too slow to keep up with the new gadgets, so Korea has said that there planning on building an infrastructure to sustain a 1Gbps broadband by 2012. As of now Koreans could subscribe to broadband sp… Continue

As a libertarian programmer with experience running an ISP, I've been following the Obama administration's quest for 100% broadband coverage across the nation with rabid interest. It's an easy idea to sell - after all, what patriotic American would begrudge her fellow citizens their (ahem) *right* to fast, affordable broadband? Let's look at the options presented so far: "Higher education IT consortium EDUCAUSE suggests $100 billion be spent on fat fiber optic links to homes, while FreePress,… Continue

I hope you will all forgive me for the poor and unmatured quality of this post, as I've never found reason to blog about anything before, however today I remembered I had a Geeks account and felt it necessary to blog about something; for without bad content one cannot determine good content, and hopefully this post will make you better appreciate the skills of better and more interesting bloggers. I've always been the more tech-savvy one in my circle of friends, and especially within my immedia… Continue