The FCC voted on the topic of Net Neutrality today and passed strong rules to pass the open Internet. They also pushed Title II to reclassify ISPs as utilities and protect access similar to water and electricity. You can view a 5-page document from the FCC detailing the results of today's meeting and vote. The new rules include: No blocking of content, applications, … [Read more...]
FCC redefines broadband to address the digital divide
In 2010, the standard was set at 4 Mbps download speed and 1 Mbps upload speed to define broadband. Yesterday, the FCC voted to update that definition in order to keep up with the times and reflect consumer demand. The new standard sets broadband equivalent or greater than 25 megabits per second download and 3 megabits per second upload. Now, having broadband should allow one … [Read more...]
Sprint hijacking NXDomain errors to search-error.com
I created a new subdomain recently and wanted to test it out before advertising on it since the DNS change could take a while to propogate. I waited a couple of hours and it worked on my home computer. To get a second opinion, I took my Android phone off of wireless and tried to browse to the subdomain on the cell network using Chrome for Android. Instead of reaching the page I … [Read more...]
Intel NIC driver bug floods the network
Some coworkers came across an interesting problem with Dell OptiPlex 7010 desktops and there wasn't much out there on the issue beyond a thread on Dell's support forums. Apparently, one of the original drivers that shipped with the OptiPlex 790/7010/9010 and Latitude E6520/E6530 for the Intel network card can error out in quite an interesting way. Version 11.15.12.0 of the … [Read more...]
EFF on Open Wireless and Copyright Infringement
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently published a white paper on copyright infringement from open Wi-Fi. The paper is not legal advice but answers many questions that might arise after you receive an abuse complaint for behavior somebody else did on your network. The white paper is available as a PDF … [Read more...]