Peer-to-peer could be your service providers' best friend as it tries to handle the rising tide of video on the Net. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...

Most network infrastructures today may be coping well with the increases in Internet traffic, but any existing overcapacity would very quickly be consumed by the advent of video. The good news is, ...

Move over, Netflix — you're no longer the only video streaming service capable of shaming ISPs. Quartz notices that YouTube has started delivering small pop-up messages in videos that are experiencing ...

Netflix says streaming performance for its service on the networks of major U.S. Internet Service Providers like Verizon FIOS and Comcast is getting worse. Now, a new report suggests those worsening ...

One of the afternoon sessions at Streaming Media West, being held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose through Thursday, September 25, dealt with the topic of ISP caps on online video. Titled ...

If you've noticed some hiccups or degradation in quality when streaming video to your mobile device, there's a quick way to check if your bandwidth is being throttled by your ISP. While major ISPs ...

These days, many of us work some or all of the time from home. We stream movies, TV series and documentaries from one or more streaming services; listen to music and podcasts online; and log on to ...

Google has come out and warned ISPs that the Internet can’t handle people watching TV or movies on it. With the large file sizes of video, especially HDTV, they say that major infrastructure upgrades ...

One of the largest Internet service providers in Britain is teaming with the company responsible for the BitTorrent software to test a new high-speed movie download service, the companies said Friday.

Internet service providers in Australia have temporarily blocked access to dozens of websites, including 4chan and 8chan, that hosted video of last week’s New Zealand mass shooting. New Zealand ISPs ...