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Starlink broadband speeds will double to 300Mbps “later this year,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter this week. SpaceX has been telling users to expect speeds of 50Mbps to 150Mbps since the beta began a few months ago. From a report: Musk also wro… Continue reading Starlink Will Hit 300Mbps and Expand To ‘Most of Earth’ This Year
The Myanmar soldiers descended before dawn on Feb. 1, bearing rifles and wire cutters. At gunpoint, they ordered technicians at telecom operators to switch off the internet. For good measure, the soldiers snipped wires without knowing what they were se… Continue reading A Digital Firewall in Myanmar, Built With Guns and Wire Cutters
Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has said Australia’s plan to make tech giants pay for journalism could render the internet as we know it “unworkable.” From a report: The inventor of the World Wide Web claimed that proposed laws could disrupt the estab… Continue reading Australian Law Could Make Internet ‘Unworkable’, Says World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee
Myanmar’s new military government has enforced a “near-total internet shutdown” in the country for the third night in a row, and fifth such communication blackout of this kind this month. NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages globally, reports: Myan… Continue reading ‘Near-Total Internet Shutdown’ for Third Night in a Row in Myanmar
Ghana plans to broaden the scope of its telecommunications licenses so mobile operators can have more spectrum available for internet use, lowering data costs for consumers. From a report: Ghana currently sells licenses that are spectrum-specific “and … Continue reading Ghana Plans To Relax Telecom Licensing Rules To Lower Data Costs
With ethernet connected I can ping the router. Using a browser and letmeoutofyour.net:8080 returns W00tW00t, 443 sits and spins. Using a MacBook Pro early 2011, High Sierra 10.13.6. It seems to be a firewall issue, but I haven’t found wher… Continue reading ethernet is connected and active but browsers and speedtest cannot connect to the internet, WiFi connects to the internet fine
Parler is back online following several weeks of darkness after the social media site popular with supporters of former president Donald Trump was knocked offline. From a reportL: Parler effectively fell off the Internet in January when Amazon refused … Continue reading Parler is Back Online, More Than a Month After Tangle With Amazon Knocked it Offline
Recently, my Wi-Fi was cutting out at 30-1 hour intervals and they seemed pretty consistent for it to be some sort of occasional cut out of Wi-Fi in my opinion. I asked a friend about this and we went to the software for my Netgear router … Continue reading DDOS Attack Or What? [closed]
Imagine for a moment that something has taken out your phone line, cell, and fibre connection so you have no internet. For some of you this may even be reality, but go with it and imagine yourself deciding to use …read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Frontier Communications is raising its sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7 later this month, widening the gap between its advertised broadband prices and the actual prices cust… Continue reading Frontier Raises Sneaky ‘Internet Infrastructure Surcharge’ From $4 To $7