Published on: 2025-06-05 16:13:33
Thinking about subscribing to SpaceX's satellite internet service provider, Starlink? Be warned: The company appears to have quietly jacked up a demand-based fee in certain states. Redditors first began noticing the change this week while trying to get Starlink service in the Pacific Northwest, PCMag reported, finding that the "demand fee" at checkout was $500. The outlet noted that this fee was previously set at $250 in April for areas where the service was nearing a preset customer limit. Th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 08:57:00
AT&T is introducing a new affordable wireless plan to its list of offerings. This particular plan may be just what you’re looking for if you’re 55 or older. In a new blog post , AT&T announced the launch of a wireless plan called AT&T 55 Plus. For the price of $40 per month, customers who are 55 or older and are on this plan will get unlimited talk, text, and data in and between the US, Canada, and Mexico. This price drops down to $35 per month each if you add a second line. Additionally, you’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 08:40:00
From potentially illegal giveaways to shady trade deals, Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relationship has drawn a lot of scrutiny. Now, Democrats are honing back in on potential backdoor deals for the benefit of Musk’s satellite internet constellation. In a recent letter, Senate Democrats claimed the Trump administration is withholding broadband grants to funnel money to Starlink. The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment fund is a federal grant program aimed at improving high-spe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 19:00:00
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack, president of Claflin University, received an email from a student who had left campus and returned home to quarantine. The student wrote: “It is my prayer that Claflin’s passion for education aligns with its compassion.” “I am currently typing my senior research paper at the local McDonald’s that I drive to nine miles every day to do this work because my town doesn’t have Wi-Fi bandwidth,” the student wrote. She said she would s
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What is the best internet provider in Bend? Bend may lack variety in internet providers, but after careful research, our CNET experts concluded that TDS Broadband stands out as the top choice in Bend, Oregon. It offers the fastest speeds in the area, along with reliable service and a range of plans to fit different needs. If your need for speed is a bit more moderate, T-Mobile Home Internet is a solid backup choice, thanks to its affordability. The Rely Home Internet plan gets you speeds up to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 16:15:00
What is the best internet provider in Delaware? Verizon Fios is CNET's top pick for the best internet service provider in Delaware. It gets the top spot on our list because of its fiber network, which provides symmetrical upload and download speeds. You can choose between four plans, although the 2-gig plan is only available in select areas. It also has a ton of other upsides, including stable pricing, unlimited data and promotional offers that bring the prices down. Perks like these are the re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 08:15:07
Wirestock/Getty Images If you're looking to change internet providers, there's a new option available. T-Mobile announced today that it's launching its fiber home internet service on June 5. The initial rollout will be available to 500,000 customers, but the company said it plans to reach 12 to 15 million households over the next five years. Also: Sick of weak Wi-Fi? How I got wired home internet without running Ethernet cable The company's fiber internet plans include a Wi-Fi 6 router, unli
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Our picks 90001 Edit ZIP code Why we chose these providers Sort by Best overall no-contract ISP (if you can get it) 1,000 - 8,000 Mbps $70 - $150 per month Check with Google Fiber Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (855) 500-4211 Best for DSL value 10 - 140 Mbps $55 per month Check with CenturyLink Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (866) 671-3650 Best no-contract cable internet 500 - 1,000 Mbps $50 - $80 per month Check with Sp
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In a story that feels directly out of the year 2006, a lawsuit brought by major record labels that sought to make internet service providers boot their customers off the internet for piracy violations has been settled before going to court, according to Ars Technica. The case, brought by Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group against Frontier Communications, will not move forward, but it’s not clear what the terms of the agreement are. The lawsuit started back in 2021 and saw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 12:01:00
ZDNET There are myriad reasons your internet connection might be slow. There is a checklist for troubleshooting most of these issues, and the solutions range from surprisingly easy to complex and expensive. Also: Sick of weak Wi-Fi? How I got wired home internet without running Ethernet cable The problem of internet "throttling," though, is not on a typical troubleshooting checklist because it is intentionally perpetrated by your internet service provider. Your slow connection may have nothin
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Our picks 90001 Edit ZIP code Why we chose these providers Sort by Best rural home internet provider 72 - 245 Mbps $60 per month Check with T-Mobile Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (877) 519-7610 Best wired rural internet provider 10 - 140 Mbps $55 per month Check with CenturyLink Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (866) 671-3650 Best rural fixed wireless internet provider 25 - 50 Mbps $45 - $65 per month Check with Rise Broa
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It's truly aggravating to discover you aren't getting the internet speeds you've been paying for. And on the flip side, it doesn't make sense to pay for speeds you don't really need -- avoiding that mistake can help you save hundreds of dollars on your internet bill. Let's face it, home internet is expensive. In a CNET broadband survey, 63% of US adults paying for home internet said their price increased last year. With those rising costs, it can be easy to get stuck paying too much for an inte
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What is the best internet provider in Eugene? The best internet service provider in Eugene is Xfinity, according to CNET. The cable provider offers the lowest starting prices in the area, fast download speeds and no equipment fees on most plans. It’s widely available across the city, providing fast and reliable internet access at nearly every address. Although not as widespread as Xfinity, Hunter Fiber delivers the fastest internet speeds in Eugene topping out at 2,500 Mbps compared to Xfinity
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 13:00:00
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack, president of Claflin University, received an email from a student who had left campus and returned home to quarantine. The student wrote: “It is my prayer that Claflin’s passion for education aligns with its compassion.” “I am currently typing my senior research paper at the local McDonald’s that I drive to nine miles every day to do this work because my town doesn’t have Wi-Fi bandwidth,” the student wrote. She said she would s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 00:19:00
Starlink just got a lot more affordable for customers in 30 states. The internet service provider now offers a cheaper alternative to its $120 monthly Residential plan. This new plan -- dubbed Residential Lite -- brings the cost down to $80 per month. However, that means slower speeds and some other compromises. According to the Starlink FAQ section, the Residential Lite plan offers download speeds of 45 to 130 megabits per second with no data caps. The satellite internet service initially roll
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As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in artificial intelligence, there's a massive and growing elephant in the room: that any models trained on web data from after the advent of ChatGPT in 2022 are ingesting AI-generated data — an act of low-key cannibalism that may well be causing increasing technical issues that could come to threaten the entire industry. In a new essay for The Register, veteran tech columnist Steven Vaughn-Nichols warns that even attempts to head off so-called "model colla
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Starlink just got a lot more affordable for customers in 30 states. The internet service provider now offers a cheaper alternative to its $120 monthly Residential plan. This new plan -- dubbed Residential Lite -- brings the cost down to $80 per month. However, that means slower speeds and some other compromises. According to the Starlink FAQ section, the Residential Lite plan offers download speeds of 45 to 130 megabits per second with no data caps. The satellite internet service initially roll
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 23:34:00
What is the best internet provider in Durham? AT&T Fiber is CNET's top pick for the best internet provider in Durham. It takes the top spot because of its fiber availability, a solid selection of plans and high customer satisfaction. It offers competitive pricing for high-speed service, making it hard to beat. If you need an alternative, Google Fiber is a close second. It offers even higher speeds, going up to 8,000 megabits per second. Durham has a median download speed of about 367Mbps, accor
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You know the drill. It's time to shop for home internet, but you only have one or two options, and you're not sure how to decide which one is better. You've heard the woes from friends who signed up with Spectrum and were surprised by two price increases within the same year -- and as Spectrum is one of the biggest internet providers in the country (and may soon be the biggest cable provider in the country), there's a good chance that Spectrum is one of the two options available at your address.
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What is the best internet provider in Detroit? CNET recommends Xfinity as the best internet provider in Detroit, Michigan. It not only offers excellent speeds and a variety of plans, with speeds of up to 2,100Mbps, but it also has decent coverage, sitting at 98% overall according to the FCC National Broadband map. This makes it a perfect ISP for anyone, whether they be living by themselves or have a whole household in need of top speeds from a cable provider. However, if you're seeking fast fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 16:32:28
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. For about 15 percent of US households as of 2023, the only internet options are crappy, especially in rural areas. But thanks to the US Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which aims to connect everyone in the US to high-quality, mostly fiber-based internet, that’s close to changing. Or at least, it was. The plan’s lead architect, Evan
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The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Under conditions of informational poverty, our ancestors had no choice but to operate on a need-to-know basis. The absence of pertinent, reliable, and commonly held facts was at first a matter of mere logistics—the stable storage and orderly transfer of knowledge was costly and troublesome, and entropy was free—but, over time, the techniques of civilization afforded us better control over the collection and transmission of data. Vast tria
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"The ACP program really saved my life," said Dorothy Burrell, a 55-year-old from Kansas City. Burrell was one of the 23 million Americans enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, a pandemic-era fund that helped low-income households pay for internet access. These days, Burrell teaches computer skills at the digital advocacy nonprofit Essential Families, but when day-to-day life went online during the pandemic, she suddenly found herself stranded without an internet connection. Locatin
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"The ACP program really saved my life," said Dorothy Burrell, a 55-year-old from Kansas City. Burrell was one of the 23 million Americans enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, a pandemic-era fund that helped low-income households pay for internet access. These days, Burrell teaches computer skills at the digital advocacy nonprofit Essential Families, but when day-to-day life went online during the pandemic, she suddenly found herself stranded without an internet connection. Locatin
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May 27 2025 BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability At 7AM (UTC) on Wednesday May 20th 2025 a BGP message was propagated that triggered surprising (to many) behaviours with two major BGP implementations that are often used for carrying internet traffic. This caused a large number of “internet facing” BGP sessions to automatically shut down, causing at the very least some routing instability, and at worst brief loss of connectivity for some networks. What was the messa
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Whether you're a digital nomad or your job requires you to travel frequently, here's why you should know about Starlink's new mini satellite dish. The Starlink Mini dish is available virtually everywhere in the US. Currently, Starlink has a limited-time discount, reducing your up-front cost to $299 for the small antenna. While that still might be a steep price, the original up-front cost was $499. The mini satellite dish comes with a monthly subscription of $50 to $165, depending on your chosen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 01:00:00
Bringing broadband to remote, rural and underserved areas is no easy or cheap feat. Fiber networks are expensive to build out, and cable internet coverage is actually decreasing. Although 5G home internet is growing in availability and popularity, its speeds and reliability are at the mercy of tower proximity and network congestion. Satellite internet has poised itself as a viable solution to rural broadband woes but not the single-satellite, geostationary services from Hughesnet and Viasat, wh
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One of the biggest names in satellite internet, Hughesnet, will now be able to offer faster speeds. Many Americans in rural areas rely on satellite internet based on where they live. For many, particularly those in remote rural areas, satellite internet is the only way to get online. Availability is pretty much the only advantage to satellite internet, but customers often have to settle for higher pricing, lower speeds, limited data allowances and high latency (the communication delay between tw
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The rising costs of internet service mean that cutting added fees from your bill makes all the difference. A recent CNET survey found that roughly 63% of adults are paying $195 more on average for internet than they paid last year. If you're looking to trim down monthly expenses, there's one bill on your router that's easier to get rid of than others: The costs of renting your router. Granted, buying a router upfront is also an easy way to remove that fee from your bill. CNET's router expert, J
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time — complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats. Microfiche is a sheet of film that contain
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