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How Fast Is Your Internet Connection? Wanna Bet?

FIOS Quantum Wifi and Wireless Speed

The other day  I was looking at the search phrases that have landed people at Answer Guy Central, and I came across both what you see above (25 mbps comcast connection, however wifi only gets 10 mbps), and this:

Google Search for 'Upgraded Internet Speed'

Pleased as I was to see Google’s high opinion of Answer Guy Central’s Search Engine Optimization efforts, what got me thinking was the perception/reality thing. People are buying high speed Internet and getting—or believe this to be the case—nothing resembling the high speeds they’ve paid for. This is the kind of thing we manage for our clients at The Computer Answer Guy and PC-VIPcomputers are too hard to get working the way you want them to work.

Apple iCloud Equals Continued Upsell. This is Easy Computing?

Apple iCloud is a Data Hog

Once upon a time, computer users were either Mac People or PC People. You might think that’s still true, but “back in the day” the debate was contentious and continuous. PC users didn’t so much love Windows as they were used to it, and Mac users were firmly and staunchly pro-Apple for reasons that didn’t hold water, but before we had high-speed Internet differences in things like floppy drive capacity rendered the two platforms all but incompatible. You had to pick a side.

Patents, Business Change, and AT&T Redefine Net Neutrality

In the aftermath of last week’s Samsung/Apple legal debacle over patents (you can bet I’ll have something to say about that, soon), I’ve been thinking about another topic that pops up here, every now and again. Hello, AT&T? This is Net Neutrality calling, and we want our definition back.

Verizon FIOS Quantum, and the 300 Mbps You’ll Never See

Verizon FIOS Quantum Speeds and 300 mbps

It was over two years ago that Comcast introduced 105 Mbps Internet speeds, and I told you you’d never see that speed. Today, Verizon is introducing Verizon FIOS Quantum with speeds of 300 mbps, because the Internet has come so far that you can now download illegal movies even faster.

Umm, no, you (still) can’t.

Here’s the good news: Verizon FIOS Quantum 300 mbps service theoretically offers three times what Comcast offered for downloads and six times the speeds for uploads, at the same price. So the “price of fast Internet” is coming down.

Verizon Has Made My Head—And Likely YOUR Wallet—Hurt. A LOT

Your phone calls just became free. So did your text messages. Sounds great, right?

Guess again. If you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, your prices, under the guise of Verizon Wireless making plans that are theoretically less expensive, just went up. WAY up. If we hadn’t already christened The Verizon Wireless Customer Service Wall of Shame for them, this sleight of hand would have been enough to earn Big Red that honor.

AT&T Pushes The Biggest Business Change in Wireless History

Thank you, AT&T, for saving us from the spectre of huge data costs when we go over the limit on our SmartPhone plans, and for instituting a business change that both makes sense and will be fair to everyone.

OK, strike most of that. AT&T has a new idea for wireless data pricing that, while absolutely qualifying both as business change and a business change plan that makes sense in its way, isn’t really going to benefit anyone except AT&T, and other really large companies.

Here we go again.

Data and Bandwidth Usage, Perception, Reality and Siri

When I told you about Google Music and the immense amount of bandwidth it consumes, I never thought that something so innocuous could actually trump that kind of media streaming and cost you more.

Hello, Siri.

Although I’ve been writing about Apple’s “virtual assistant” since way back in May 2010, (and I know a bit about Virtual Assistants), one thing I hadn’t thought about is just how much data software like Siri goes through in working its magic. Turns out, quite a bit. Or depending on your view of perception and reality, not all that much.

FTC To Slap Cuffs on Google. Here’s a Better Idea

One of my clients just made the switch to an Android phone. He’s a technology consultant and über-geek, and so he understood that in going Android he’d need to make some decisions about how he uses bandwidth on his wireless device. If he stays with the data plan he’s selected, he’s better not plan to use Google Music or any other streaming service, because he’ll go broke.

And he understands this stuff. Most people don’t.

Google Instant Pages: The SEO Game Changer You MUST Heed

Yesterday, Google made search better. They did! Honest! Just Ask Them!

Umm … better for SEO Consultants, maybe. Worse for you, though.

Google has announced a new feature in their search algorithm that they’re calling Google Instant Pages. And the way it works is pretty cool: when you search for something, Google will send the actual web page for the #1 result of your search to you immediately. The result is that if you click on the link, you won’t have to wait for the page to load; it’ll already be on your computer.

Watch Movies? Like Music? Run a Server? Get Ready to Pay.

The all-you-can-eat train is coming to the end of its tracks.

Every now and then I come across someone who’s still paying by the minute to make phone calls. If you’re very young you might not even know that paying for each call you make was once a possibility, but until 1984 it was the only way phone calls outside your immediate area were sold and until the mid 1990s it was still pretty much the standard way things were done.

Data? It’s free. Bandwidth is unlimited, all-you-can-eat. Right? Not any more.

4G The Demise of Flat-Rate Data? Puck No!

Just when the telecommunications giants thought they had flat-rate data plans headed out the door, here comes The Puck.

If you look at the oh-so-slick website home of The Puck (3/22/2012: well, Puck no, again … The Puck is dead, and Clearwire has replaced it with a handful of other 4G devices they call CLEAR Spots) you’ll notice that it’s not available everywhere just yet. In fact, this little thing isn’t going to make any difference in the plans that the AT&T ‘s and Verizon ‘s of the world make—yet. But The Puck is a great example of how one company’s business change plans can derail another’s, even when the new guy is way smaller than the company they’re attacking.

Kiss Flat-Rate Data Goodbye: Here Come the 4G Phones

It’s almost here. 4G cell phone networks and the way-faster data transfer speeds that come with them are about to get switched on. Now, your Smartphone will feel . . . even smarter.

And Verizon will be making you pay for that.

Presumably all carriers will be doing the same, so Verizon only deserves credit for opening the floodgates. But Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam is on record: fixed-cost all-you-can-eat data plans will be going away for 4G SmartPhone users.

How Much Bandwidth is Enough? What Would You Pay For More?

Yesterday I was excited to hear that Comcast has announced a new level of Internet service and bandwidth that until now simply wasn’t available in The United States. Soon, you’ll be able to have 105 mbps downloads and 10 mpbs uploads.

My excitement lasted about five seconds.

First, the good news: the routers we’re buying today (and for the last couple of years) will support the kind of speeds that Comcast is about to start selling as the first ISP in the United States to do so. The bad news? Everything else.





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