ISPs tend to enforce a bandwidth cap on both DSL and cable modem services.

The first cap is on data transferred per service period (usually per month). From my experience, DSL data transfer caps are more rigidly controlled than cable services. Your data cap may be as little as 1 gigabyte per month or, in case of most cable modem services, unlimited.

Both cable and DSL services have a cap on bandwidth. Your service provider may promise you a certain downstream limit and a certain upstream limit. This means that you will generally be able to sustain a certain bit rate while downloading or receiving data and a different bit rate while uploading information.

In general, because of far greater capacity of coaxial cable and fact that only a certain number of lines exist connecting you to your switch, cable modems, if uncapped would provide advantages in bandwidth over DSL modems. In real world, this is not case. Both DSL and Cable companies limit bandwidths at both modem level and at service provider.

Shop Around. If you are shopping around for a service or thinking of changing services, best advice I have for you is to ask other users about their service. One of best web sites I've seen for sharing this data is broadbandreports.com. This site provides user-submitted reviews of their broadband service and charts day-to-day service fluctuations. Speed tests and other tools for optimizing your connection are available as well.

Press releases submitted to biggest and well known media release agencies are appearing rapidly on rss feeds, with publishers of these feeds scambling to put 'content' on their feed almost on an hourly basis.

Commercial enterprises have never had it so good to get their press release into circulation so quickly as more and more commercial news, via press releases, is needed to fill ever available channels being run by rss feed publishers. Even badly written press releases that under normal circumstances would not find a publisher willing to print it, will be readily accepted by rss feed publishers looking avidly for more 'content'. This 'content' may only be on a rss feed for space of one hour before it is replaced by something else, but it will have potential to be seen by lillions of people world wide.

This is 'potential' that big media companies are now eyeing.

One rss feed publisher charges $6,000 for an item of news to be on one of his feeds for space of one day. So potential for earning substantial incomes from publishing your own rss feed can be huge.

Many web publishers will change tack and embrace rss feeds as being potentially more commercially viable than publishing a web site.

Many 'spammers' will change to running as many rss feeds as possible to saturate market, since spam filters are proving very effective for email.

How easy is it to put up a rss feed?

If you have web hosting already, it can be set up in 5 minutes!

All it needs is a text file placed on server, and 'feed' is live to whole world. Instant rss feed publishing!