Christopher Leger

Time Warner Cable, the geniuses who can’t help but rip off their customers, is at it again. Several small towns across the country are taking matters into their own hands and creating a utility broadband system for their residents. This, being a community-owned utility, offers high capacity for low price – who could have a [...]

[Read more →]

Time Warner recently announced expanding their ridiculously low bandwidth caps to additional markets. Let me be clear, this has nothing to do with infrastructure costs, quality of service, or even additional revenue generation. It is solely about drawing a lime in the sand over what (HD video?) they do not want customers to view, because [...]

[Read more →]

The DNS spoofing that is out on the internet is the worst kind of security problem because  you can’t do anything about it. However, you can find out how your ISP deals with DNS lookups, and can change your DNS to OpenDNS if your ISP can’t or won’t fix this huge security hole.

[Read more →]

This article by Ellen Nakashima in The Washington Post (8/12/08 pg D1) about the House Committee on Energy and Commerce inquiry into ISP customer monitoring is very revealing. The article links to the actual letters sent to the Committee by many ISPs detailing their customer tracking techniques. Please find your ISP and find out what [...]

[Read more →]

I was reading a discussion (registration required) on the Washington Post today, and it brought to light the seriousness of net neutrality.  Time Warner Cable is experimenting with a pay-per-use model of internet access. My first impression was mostly favorable, mostly based upon the idea that a new pricing model may open up the woeful [...]

[Read more →]