3. March, 2002 - give me bandwidth, baby

Interesting. I broke 20k hits last month. Before I went to daily entries, the best month was 7k hits, with the average around 5k. So I'm seeing more than three times as many requests for pages, but I'm also making entries about three times as often. So it seems that the traffic here is directly related to the amount of content. Go figure! I also made a list of the Most popular pages here at Dave's Picks.
Qwest reaches settlement in DSL switchover case. People who have already switched to MSN will get a chance to switch away, and those who haven't decided get another couple months to make up their minds. And Qwest will be informing them about the forty or so local ISPs who offer DSL. [strib]
House Republicans narrow amendments to broadband Internet bill. Basically they're gutting it so there will be less choice in DSL service. Bad Republicans. Bad. [google news]
The discussion of the real expenses of broadband over at flutterby mirrors my experience. Most broadband providers just give you bandwidth. If you want a reliable server, you'll need to talk to someone else. Except for a few ISPs like Pro-NS who offer a full-service package. [flutterby]
NASA successfully contacts Pioneer 10 spacecraft on the 30th anniversary of its launch. It's 11 light-hours away (22 hours round-trip), and the signal quality was good enough that they might be able to contact it again next year. They talk to it at 16 baud. There's some serious bandwidth for ya. [google news]