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UUNET Outage Fixed - Users Back Online
News UUNET customers were suffering this morning due to a major service outage emanating from the US side of the ISP's operations. UUNET customers will be relieved to hear the ISP has now fixed the problem that prevented many users accessing US-based...
[October 7, 1999, 16:57]
AOL Quick To Offer Faster Broadband
News The ISP announced on Monday that it will charge £34.99 per month for the service, which is twice as fast as its existing 512Kbps service. However, AOL is the largest ISP yet to come out with full pricing details and a full launch.
[December 1, 2003, 17:00]
Bulldog Launches Pay-as-you-go 8Mbps Broadband
News While BT has trialled a per-minute scheme and smaller ISPs have launched similar price plans, Bulldog is the first major UK ISP to launch such a product commercially. The move comes in the wake of customer service woes, leading to an Ofcom...
[November 16, 2005, 15:10]
UK's Internet Link With America Boosted
News An ISP can link to any other ISP across the Web by any one of countless routes, but by establishing a link directly to and from one of the major interchange points, such as LINX, they can achieve much better performance.
[April 16, 2004, 14:30]
Hilton Hacker Sent Down
News In addition to the T-Mobile incident and making bomb threats at high schools, the teen admitted to hacking into the network of a major ISP, a data broker and a second major telephone provider, according to the US attorney statement.
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of course, the price for access will be discounted - who'd be an ordinary ISP? Vanity ISP provision was never so easy: companies like BT and ICL will happily do you a deal whereby they'll run a complete packaged ISP in your name.
[July 4, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Of course, the price for access will be discounted - who'd be an ordinary ISP? Vanity ISP provision was never so easy: companies like BT and ICL will happily do you a deal whereby they'll run a complete packaged ISP in your name.
[July 4, 1998, 7:42]
Red Hat UK's Favourite Software Supplier - ISPA Awards
News Britain's ISP industry has voted Linux distributor Red Hat as its favourite software supplier. Best E-commerce Service Offered by an ISP -- Netbanx Best ISP Product -- Easynet Dial Most Innovative New ISP Product -- Online Call Manager
[February 17, 2000, 9:17]
Bulldog Fixes Broadband Problems
Talkback Bulldog have to be the most insanely inept ISP in the history of ISP's. They got stripped of their awards last year by the ISP trade association and given a huge b*llocking by OFCOM and told to put their house in order, blatantly so as when i...
[March 10, 2006, 1:40]
Web Attacks? The ISPs Strike Back!
News All Internet users should assure that their own network is in order, and that their ISP is doing the appropriate filtering on behalf of everyone," said Harris Schwartz, director of security for Time Warner's high-speed ISP, Road Runner.
[February 24, 2000, 9:03]
Australian Government Gears Up For Zombie Battle
News Those infected IP addresses are then fed to the relevant ISP. According to a statement from the ACMA, if the owner of a computer contacted by an ISP is unwilling or unable to disinfect that machine, the ISP could remove its connection to the...
[November 7, 2005, 9:30]
Freeserve Faces Future Without Dixons
News Such a sale -- which could see Freeserve joined to Germany's T-Online or a major media company -- would be just one of several major transitions the ISP is currently undergoing. At the same time, the "free" business model, which revolutionised the...
[May 9, 2000, 14:23]
Supporting The Support
Talkback Well I contacted a major UK ISP about unwanted inbound VPN traffic (akin to a enumerated attack) and the traffic ceased within two working days. The biggest problem is the sheer number of points of contact involved, and the fact that the problem...
[March 21, 2006, 10:38]
Cisco Teams Up With Big Blue Over Network Security
Talkback If this actually gets into the data centers of major ISP's running broadband, we might actually get a significant reduction in virus/worm/trojan vectors and a huge reduction in spam. It'd force off the biggest problem on the 'net: users who refuse...
[October 15, 2004, 15:28]
Blockades Thrown Up In Net Turf War
Talkback Level 3 is a major provider for the EarthLink ISP which provides service to millions of dial-up accounts. "The problem is likely to affect only a small number of each company's customers. But how can that number be small?
[October 6, 2005, 21:37]
Email Security
Downloads When you send email messages, Internet Service Providers (ISP) usually store the messages on their mail servers before they try to deliver them. Email Security is a unique system-tray security utility that lets you ensure your email security by...
[August 6, 2008, 20:31]
A Modeling Framework To Understand The Tussle Between ISPs And Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Users
White Papers The prevailing use of P2P applications carries with it significant implications for Internet Service Providers (ISPs): on the one hand increased levels of P2P traffic result in additional costs for an ISP, which has to provide a satisfactory...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
A Design Of A Next Generation IX Using MPLS Technology
White Papers Currently, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) establishes numerous interconnections to other ISPs. Although 'Private peering' is one way for an ISP to interconnect to other ISPs with individual links, connecting to an IX is a more efficient way to...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Internet Hero Nominee Walks Off With Villain Award
News Nevertheless his appearance, said one attendee from a major ISP, demonstrated a desire to continue his department's new-found rapport with the industry. It was a watershed moment in the ISPAs, the ISP industry's annual award ceremony.
[February 21, 2003, 8:03]
US Company Claims Millions Over Site-nav Patent
News SBC Communications, a major American telco and ISP, says that it owns the right to links that stay visible on the page during navigation -- and wants up to 5 percent of company revenue annually as a licence fee.
[January 20, 2003, 15:35]
