The Lance J. Technoweb

 Today I read this on the Motley Fool in relation to Starlink: With Comcast offering 200 mbps for under $50 in metro locales in the U.S. you might not think [Starlink will be successful]. Why is the Motley Fool telling us this fabrication about Comcast pricing?  Motley seem to be merely repeating the words of a Comcast marketing strategy, not the pre-tax price customers actually pay.  Clearly no writer or editor for the MF is actually a Comcast ISP customer.  The sloppy editor will exclaim that the MF article is, on the surface, correct - in my "Metro Area", Comcast's claim is that they charge for 200 Mbps service at $49.99.  $49.99 is under $50.  But that number is incorrect, as Comcast fully states that the $49.99 is the price for a subset of a multi-year contract. The overall monthly cost is far, far higher. Comcast fully admits in their fine print that the fee for 200 mbps service is actually $92.95... not including other profits that show up ever...

Today I found a report by the FCC that talks about Internet performance of the most popular US providers.  It is clear that a lot of people are having major issues with Comcast. Here's a clip of the FCC's chart that highlights upload performance by the major providers.  The FCC chart shows that Comcast / Xfinity has some of the WORST performance in the industry: See where Comcast is?  It's in the toilet, and it is not improving.  In some countries Comcast's upload rate would not even be called broadband. Although Cox looks nearly as bad on this chart, in reality Cox's faster upload performance is from 2 times faster up to 100 times faster that Comcast! Comcast and its marketing team loves to ignore the importance of upload speed.  Do you take photos?  Do you use Zoom or Skype or Google Hangouts for school or work?  How about Dropbox or Microsoft Exchange?  Do you use your smartphone on the Internet?   If so, then upload performance is CRITICA...

You likely want to know which Cable Modem you should buy for the fastest performance, lowest latency, and highest reliability.  What does a network expert have to say? But before we begin, here is the deal:  There is no "best" cable modem. Any website that lists the "best" is full of garbage.  Forget them.  They are idiots try to sell you crap. Modems should last for 5 to 10 years and almost never fail.  They do not slow down with time. They do not wear out. Any quality issues are almost always an issue with the cabling in your home and/or from the street.  Modems do go obsolete.  That is how they end up in the garbage heap. With all that out of the way, here are my strict rules in terms of what to buy.  There are NO exceptions to any of my rules. Rule 1: Buy a Modem that is "approved" by YOUR cable company Each  Cable company has a list of "approved" modems that conforms to the standards.  Definitely focus on the approved modem list, as...

I recycle a lot of stuff that comes into my house, but I don't recycle everything.  Here is my rule: "If I don't know with confidence that it is recyclable, it goes in the trash". "Trash" in my area isn't as bad as others.  Where I live, trash is processed.  Valuables like metals are pulled out, and the remaining stuff is turned to energy.  Although incineration does release CO2, the same amount of CO2 is release when putting trash in the ground. After the incineration process, the more metals are pulled out of the ash, and the ash is turned into bricks for capping old landfills. Each locality has its own rules on what to recycle because each recycling facility has specific technical capabilities.  And these abilities can change over time.  So therefore, my first job is to pay attention to the current rules. Without overriding the rules, here's what I generally do where I live: Food containers I generally recycle food containers made out of cardboard...