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15 Entrepreneur Blogs Worth Reading | out of the box.me — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:48:59 +0000

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By: cheapest

cheapest — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:07:04 +0000

I agree whole-heartedly with most of your comments above Mark!

I think it is a telling sign that despite being able to spend a few bucks (well, they are cheap these days) on a DVR, interner downloaders still insist on using torrent files etc. I think what you said re: “Cant download movies illegally, tough.” – This is the real reason…

Anothe rthing that gets me on a rant, personally, is the amount of people trying to connect through open wifi nets these days (in the UK anyhoo, you have the same issues?) – I have overheard people saying that it’s the WiFi router owners fault for not bothering to secure their network, but I think that is akin to saying it’s okay to steal from someones house if they leave their door unlocked! – stealing others WiFi bandwidth to download copyright protected stuff via P2P software isn’t clever, it’s a pain in the butt, especially if you put someone over thier bandwidth allowance!

Anyway, sorry to rant (I did say it got me going)!

By: Hound Dog

Hound Dog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:55:47 +0000

I only use the internet for email, message boards, chat rooms, instant messaging, and web searches, so I’m not a “bandwidth hog” by any means. I don’t use any sort of P2P applications, other than the ones I mentioned, and I only use chat rooms & instant messaging for exchanging text messages, not for transferring any sort of files. The only videos I “download” are the news clips that I watch on various sites that provide such services, and I don’t save any videos that I watch on my hard drive or any other storage medium, so unless something that I’m doing on the net is saving itself in my temporary files somewhere, I’m not one of those people who spends all their time searching for more music and videos to fill all their free space. I never do any of my gaming online, and I get highly annoyed when whatever I’m trying to do is slowed to a crawl by net traffic too. But I must say that your attitude is worse than anyone who does any or all of the things that you detest so much. I fail to see what it is you do on the net that you think is so important that it should give you all the speed you demand, while everyone else waits for you to finish it, so they can go about their own business without fear of inconveniencing you by denying you your speed. You seem to have ruled out every legitimate use for the net there is as being a detriment to whatever it is you do with it. So I think the best solution would be for you to get the hell off of everyone else’s internet! It’s people like you who ruin it for everyone else, not the other way around. I bet you’re one of those people who drives on the freeway with their emergency flashers on, honking their horn for everyone else to get out of their way, because it’s so important that you get wherever you’re gong as quickly as possible that no one else on the road should have any right to impede your progress. I guess your blog and your blogging on it are supposed to be more important than anything that anyone else could possibly be doing on the net, including reading your blog. I hope my posting a comment here didn’t slow you down. I’m sure you’ll be complaining the entire time that it takes you to delete what I have to say to you, so no one else can read about what an ass I think you are. Which is just as well, because your own words said it for me better than I could ever say it myself!

By: Cable Digital News - Services Software - Rogers Takes Internet Meter to the Masses - Telecom News Analysis

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:21 +0000

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By: Ethan Chabert

Ethan Chabert — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:32:44 +0000

Why do we keep saying how higher bandwidth users should pay more, pay more, pay more...? Can we start phrasing it in such a way that does not make the ISP\'s mouth\'s drool? How\'s about the lower bandwidth users should not have to pay as much...

I guess considering the nature of my business (I.T.) I am a high bandwidth user. I do pay somewhere around $60/month for my internet connection and feel that is plenty enough to download all day/night if I want to.

For all you low bandwidth crybabies out there, Get DSL and stop sharing your network segment with your whole neighborhood! And stop making justification for ISP\'s to charge us more!!!