Stat of the Day

According to Cisco, by 2017 video will account for 69% of all consumer Internet traffic.

Verizon Strike Over

The Verizon strike by about 40,000 works is reportedly over. This is good news for both sides.

It is easy to forget but those 40,000 workers are individuals with bills to pay or with families to provide for. A strike of over 6 weeks was starting to cause real financial strain and harm. Imagine being the head of a household and having to pray that your wife or kids did not get hurt because Verizon cancelled your healthcare 4 weeks ago!

For Verizon - any additional contract gains would have come at the cost of some potentially purely horrible public relations risks.

Good news.

Speed Tests

Interesting. Netflix has a new speed test Fast.com (which consistently pegs my Charter broadband at 16 Mbps).

Compare to SpeedTest.net (which also tested my Charter connection fairly close to 15 Mbps).

Others have found wildly varying results comparing the two testing sites.

How do your results compare?

Comcast Cares

Comcast cares! Heh heh - good one Comcast!

As reported - Comcast's customer service is widely loathed; their executives are always promising to fix the problem but at least they've taken the first step of acknowledging that they have a problem.