AT&T DSL & MAIL WOES

AT&T has a special place in my heart. One of my clients is a small business with its own domain name and several users receiving POP3 mail addressed to that domain name – gertrude@businessname.com, for example. The business has an AT&T DSL line. A couple...

AT&T: PROUD TO BE STUPID

Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, made some extraordinarily stupid comments in London this week.ISPs are doing a full-court press to ensure they can shape our Internet traffic to maximize their revenue. They want to do deals with media...

COMCAST OUTAGES

I have a bit of downtime while I wait for my Comcast connection to come back to life. It was out Sunday for an hour or so, which might (or might not) have been a side effect of this major East Coast weekend outage. This morning it went down at about 11am and...