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iiNet subs to get live English soccer games for free 06/08/2008 11:13:28
Broadband subscribers to get four live matches from English Premier League every week, building on iiNet's current free download traffic of over 70,000 GB a month.

iiNet announced on Wednesday that its broadband customers will be able to watch up to four live matches every round of the 2008/09 Barclays English Premier League for free, or as iiNet put it "for sweet FA".
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FCC rules against Comcast P-to-P throttling 04/08/2008 10:49:04
A victory for net neutrality advocates

The US Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, with officials there saying the cable provider was "invasive" in its network traffic management.
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Groups cheer reports of FCC acting against Comcast 29/07/2008 10:56:09
The US FCC is poised to take action against Comcast for slowign P-to-P traffic.

Consumer rights groups cheered reports saying the US Federal Communications Commission is ready to take action against Comcast for the cable-based Internet provider's decision to slow some peer-to-peer traffic on its network.
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Critics claim govt's porn filtering will fail 29/07/2008 13:33:38
Lab tests no comparision to real world

A glowing report on the government's national Internet content filtering scheme has again outraged telecommunications providers and privacy advocates who declared the results biased and worthless.
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UK ISPs get tough over illegal downloads 25/07/2008 11:37:46
Six of the UK's largest ISPs are set to announce today that they've signed up to a government-backed initiative that's designed to clamp down on music piracy.

Six of the UK's largest ISPs are set to announce today that they've signed up to a government-backed initiative that's designed to clamp down on music piracy.

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Features

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Networking's greatest debates in LANS + WANS 30/10/2007 10:43:42
Including IPv4 vs. IPv6, routing vs. switching, Packet switching vs. circuit switching, Ethernet vs. Token Ring, and Cisco vs. the rest,

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.
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Networking's greatest debates in the Data Center 29/10/2007 07:34:19
All time classic debates include Mac Vs PC, Tape storage vs. disk storage and AMD vs. Intel

A look at the greatest all time Data Center controversies in the history of the networking industry.

Buying Guides

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Broadband Internet 27/11/2007 10:25:48

For the majority of those looking to upgrade to broadband Internet for the business or home, it's all about the extra speed.
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ADSL Modem/Router 10/10/2007 10:20:52

If you have multiple computers around the home or office and want to network them together to share an ADSL Internet connection then this guide is for you.

FCC rules against Comcast P-to-P throttling

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