SATELLITE UPDATE

Jul 15, 2001 | broadband

It’s been a tough week for the satellite service. Typical of startup services that are still trying to squash bugs. Lots of downtime this week, lots of unplugging the satellite modems to reset them, lots of failed downloads and pages that won’t load....

COVAD AND THE DSL DEBACLE

Jun 28, 2001 | broadband, business

DSL was supposed to be the future of the Internet – the technology that would bring broadband to the masses and fuel the technologies that depend on high-speed access. It didn’t happen that way. This article describes what happened to Covad and the entire...

SATELLITE NEWS

Jun 27, 2001 | broadband

Pegasus’ consumer-grade satellite service has been just fine for the last few weeks. There have been occasional outages, none lasting more than an hour or so. Several times the satellite modems have needed to be unplugged and replugged, but they’ve started...

SATELLITE UPDATE

Jun 9, 2001 | broadband

I’ve had the Pegasus/DirecPC satellite for about ten days. Right after it was installed, the entire two-way DirecPC system went down for about three days, which created a poor first impression. Tech support was easy to reach and helpful, but a bit slow to...

AOL TIME WARNER LIVING DOWN TO EXPECTATIONS

Jun 7, 2001 | broadband, business

When the AOL TIme Warner merger was being evaluated, one important issue concerned “open access” to the new company’s cable systems. If AOL Time Warner refused to let anyone else use its cable systems to deliver Internet access, then it would be in a...

WEB BLACKOUT AFFECTS E-MAIL

Jun 6, 2001 | broadband, mail

I had trouble sending some e-mail during the last few days – messages were being returned as undeliverable, but it was hard to understand why. A couple of other people have mentioned the same thing to me. I don’t know for sure, but this article about a...