Wave Broadband Internet

I’m excited, my ISP just increased my upload speed. It’s long overdue and I am absolutely loving it. Wave Broadband was average or slightly above average compared with other offerings in our area for their price, but compared with what the customers need, they were very short. Internet service providers have been very slow in keeping up with customer demands because of their desire to micro-manage their networks. Download speeds continued to increase while upload speeds increase very little even though more and more people are uploading large amounts of pictures and videos to sites like flickr, youtube and myspace. Wave has been very stable, above average customer service and now excellent Download and Upload speeds.

If you’re in the Puget Sound area where wave seems to have the majority of their customers, you should seriously consider going with Wave Broadband instead of services like Qwest or Verizon.

Amazon Offers DRM Free Music

Today Amazon.com announced the launch of “Amazon MP3″, a beta service that allows customers to buy and download DRM Free Music. DRM is the technology integrated into music to prevent illegal sharing and copying of music. Currently Amazon has over 2 million songs by over 180,000 artists. Studies have shown that DRM free music has significantly higher sales. Music vendors are ridiculous to try and prevent this, the technology has always been to get around DRM anyways. I suspect that Amazon may possibly become bigger than iTunes. This is a huge step in the right direction in my opinion.