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 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 ...

Over the past two months or so we've reported on a number of communication providers plans to impose bandwidth caps on their Internet customers. AT&T implemented a market trial in Reno, Nevada that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As well as monitoring your network connections, tbbMeter will record the statistics on your usage and allow you to view them in a variety of formats e.g. daily, weekly and monthly figures. One very ...

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 ...

Usually when people reminisce about old technology, they're not thinking of things like ten-minute-long boot times, scratched LPs, and frequent bad sectors on floppy disks. Instead, they're ...