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 ...

Over the past two months or so we've reported on a number of communication providers plans to impose bandwidth caps on their Internet customers. AT&T implemented a market trial in Reno, Nevada that ...

Word on the street says Comcast will be introducing a bandwidth monitoring tool on its support site next month, giving subscribers a way to see if they're close to the 250GB monthly limit. Josh ...

Nothing makes users’ blood boil more than having their broadband service cut off (or having their bill inflate from overage charges) due to monthly usage limits, or “caps.” Although these caps are ...

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 ...

Comcast's long-awaited bandwidth meter is finally here, though it will be limited to those in the Portland, Ore., area. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

One of the features included with most newer wireless routers is bandwidth usage monitoring. A bandwidth monitor lets you keep track of exactly how much data is uploaded and downloaded through your ...

Mac OS X only: Donationware application SurplusMeter monitors and records your upload and download traffic volume and offers tons of useful bandwidth stats, like average daily use and bandwidth ...

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 ...