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 ...

Comcast cable internet users across the country can now keep track of their data usage to make sure they don't go over their 250GB a month data allowance, thanks to bandwidth meters deployed to ...

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 ...

The economics of an all-you-can-eat buffet are pretty easy to figure out. The restaurant makes money as long as most of the diners don’t have big appetites and enormous capacity for engorgement. It ...

Back in early March, we covered news that AT&T was instituting broadband meters after years of providing unlimited service. For standard DSL customers, 'unlimited' now means 150GB per month, while ...

Here’s an analog bandwidth meter made to look like an old pressure gauge. It’s actually new, but the paper showing the graduated scale was stained in a bath of black tea, then dried in an oven to give ...

Click to viewIf you're a fan of gauges and visual indicators this DIY project combines a vintage voltage meter with a modern microchip to create an eye-catching bandwidth monitor. DIY blog SKYTEE ...

Comcast has launched its long-promised bandwidth meter in Houston, rolling it out to customers locally Thursday and today, a Comcast spokesman said. The meter, which lets customers determine how much ...

As promised, Comcast is making available bandwidth meters that will allow subscribers to see how much bandwidth they consume each month. For now, the meters are only available to subscribers in ...

Check out this Steampunk TorrentMeter Bandwidth meter that has been created by Skytee. Who was inspired by Tom Igoe’s article in Make Magazine issue 11, about a display showing air quality data from ...

Comcast has launched a trial of an internet usage meter in Portland, Oregon, which lets users keep track of their monthly data usage to make sure it stays under the cable service's 250GB a month cap, ...