Mar 10 2010
How an ISP music-license should work
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann weighed in no controversy surrounding the expected Warner Music proposal to allow ISPs to pay a license fee in exchange for the unlimited right of their customers to download music, in any format, using protocol.
People who do not share music shouldn’t have to pay a license
Feb 10 2010
ISP Latency
Latency greatly affects the speed of the ISP. Latency is the minimum time it takes to perform any network operation. It is partly determined by the distance between one’s computer and the ISP server. However, the actual hardware involved at each side of the connection has a bigger impact. Most consumer hardware tends to have poor latency, and to the person browsing the Web pretty much all the perceived slowness comes from latency.
Jan 10 2010
ISP – Internet Service Provider
Internet service provider is a term that refers to a company or organization that provides businesses and residents access to the internet, frequently offer a variety of internet access method, such as DSL, satellite, fiber optics well as known as related to the other services, it will employ such as a range of technologies.
Dec 25 2009
Every Click You Make
The online behavior of a small but growing number of computer users in the United States is monitored by their Internet service providers, who have access to every click and keystroke that comes down the line. The companies harvest the stream of data for clues to a person’s interests, making money from advertisers who use the information to target their online pitches. Allowing better ad’s aimed at the right people increasing the probability of their ads getting hits.
Nov 20 2009
SA’s billion-rand music industry on an even keel
Despite rising input costs, the prices of CDs and DVDs continued dropping last year. Clearly, this is a case of those in the supply chain having to slash profit margins on an item in order to remain competitive and enable the industry to cling to survival by the skin of its teeth, as games and other forms of entertainment attract buying power away from music.
Oct 25 2009
Leading Data Quality and Data Integration Service
Prior to the introduction of Net Effect, data cleansing and matching were batch-based, requiring an extensive processing time before results were made available to the end-user. With Net Effect, using either an Internet browser or installed thin-client, individual records are cleansed, matched and results delivered back to the end-user in “real-time.” With Net Effect’s sophisticated pattern-based matching methodologies, even extremely corrupt records.
Sep 25 2009
Server Delivery Rate
An ISP can still be slow serving web pages, e-mail, or other data even if an ISP has plenty of bandwidth because its load and latency affects the delivery rate. The reason is that each ISP service is handled by a separate program called a daemon and these individual daemons can get overloaded. Each daemon can only handle so many requests per second regardless of bandwidth. Basically in addition to the ISP’s global load, there’s also individual service load. The number of requests an ISP service can handle per second is based primarily on its server software.
Aug 19 2009
Pop Ups
Pop up protection software is integrated to the IP’s software to keep you safe from unwanted and intrusive advertisement as you surf the net. This is valuable because not only that you could stay away from virus that may be hiding behind these pop-ups, but also it saves you time and irritation. If your ISP service doesn’t offer pop up control software, you can install it for free at Google. Download the Google Tool Bar and install it on you IE browser: this will control pop ups and enable you to search using Google or use an online dictionary.
Jul 12 2009
Speed is not Everything
When you talk about fast connections, think again. Speed will always be there but to religiously monitor it is another. This stems from the fact that time will come that speed is a thing of the past. Other factors such as add-on services and storage will come into play and normally they will not be included nor given focus at first.
If you want a complete and fool-proof package, you have to do some reading. It does not come naturally. If you don’t ask for it, they will not call your attention to it. Remember, all they need is your subscription. Once you sign, it is all over.
Jun 16 2009
Don’t Fall For the FREE Trial Trap
Promotional and misleading schemes are the common things you can expect from new ISP providers today. They will offer your free trials but you will have to give something in return. Normally this would be safety deposits or even credit card information that they will keep after the trial period is over.
Now the real cheat comes in when if you fail to reply or even inform them of your intent to discontinue, they will assume you are satisfied and start charging you. Whether it is for a full amount or not, you can be sure that they will not lose anything as far as their marketing strategy for their services is concerned.
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