As the demand for Internet access continues to grow around the world, opportunities for service providers are emerging in markets far and wide. Yet, simply offering Internet service, even in untapped areas, does not guaranty long term success. Just as quickly as your customer-base grows, the challenges facing ISPs and WISPs begin to emerge. From […]

Editor’s note: Art Reisman is the CTO of APconnections, a company that makes commercial bandwidth shaping appliances. They specifically offer a quota-based feature available to the public through their open-source version Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator. The following opinion piece is based on their experiences over the past five years. The recent announcement that Time Warner Cable […]

Here are some basic do’s and don’ts regarding using Google Adwords that we’ve learned through experience. Follow these and you’ll save time and money. We assume that you have run a Google Ad campaign and are familiar with the basic terms. Do use search words and search engine advertising. These clicks are worth it if […]

The Demand Side From many of our NetEqualizer users, we often hear, “I want to offer my customers a fixed-rate one-megabit link, but at night, or when the bandwidth is there, I want to let them have more”. In most cases, the reasons for doing this type of feature are noble and honest. The operator […]

Flash back to the year 2000, Napster hits the scene and becomes the site of choice for anybody trying to download online music. It is important to understand that the original Napster had a centralized infrastructure. All file transfers happened via the coordination of a central server. Had the music industry embraced this model, they […]