The days of "unlimited" broadband Internet access are gone. Many major Internet Service Providers (ISP) claim that providing unfettered access will saturate the available bandwidth and slow down or ...

Recently I read an interesting article about someone who was getting charged for bandwidth overages by Comcast. That's not uncommon, now that the company has started enforcing their bandwidth caps in ...

Bandwidth and QoS are interesting topics when it comes to media networking. There are some key differences at the network utilization level with real-time media streaming when compared to typical ...

A recently released GAO report (pdf) concludes that as ISPs adopt usage-based pricing, it is increasingly important for consumers to understand how much bandwidth applications use so they can sensibly ...

Does anyone know of any published statistics for corporate internet bandwidth usage per person? Something like - median bandwidth usage is 2,600 KB/day/user. If not, are there any rules of thumb like ...

As service providers plan their networks and make strategic technology choices – like fiber to the home vs. fiber to the node vs. enhanced CO DSL – they rely upon certain assumptions about how ...

Netflix, already the biggest single driver of Internet bandwidth, boosted its share of peak broadband traffic on North American broadband networks in March 2014, according to a new report. The No. 1 ...

Subscription-video leader accounts for more usage than YouTube, Amazon and Hulu combined in North America during primetime, according to Sandvine Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of ...