Thread: Comcast

So why does anyone even buy internet from this guy when you know they're gonna rip your balls off with restrictions and crap as soon as they can without getting bitched at by the government?

I understand there are those that only have comcast to buy from, and I also understand that it is good (for now...), but have you even researched what comcast is trying to do?

Nope... you could post a link about what they are trying to do I guess...

I am content knowing I get great internet at a very low cost. If any of their future restriction applied to me, I would show my appreciation by switching to someone else. The beauty of not having a contract.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Nope... you could post a link about what they are trying to do I guess...

I am content knowing I get great internet at a very low cost. If any of their future restriction applied to me, I would show my appreciation by switching to someone else. The beauty of not having a contract.

I will... Give me some time.

Comcast vs. BitTorrent
2007

TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with file transfers by posing as one party and then, essentially, hanging up the phone. But when we contacted Comcast at the time, it flatly denied doing it.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-98...?tag=mncol;txt
2008 (The case)

The FCC in 2005 said broadband companies should not block or interfere with lawful Internet use, unless they're doing so for "reasonable" network management purposes, but revelations that Comcast was stalling uploads to BitTorrent protocol clients raised new questions about what "reasonable" means.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/Comcast-vs.-Bit...3-6231737.html

Bandwidth Limiting
2008

We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we provide a specific threshold for data usage and this would help them understand the amount of usage that would qualify as excessive. Today, we're announcing that beginning on October 1, 2008, we will amend our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) available at http://www.comcast.net/terms/use/ and establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/month per account for all residential customers.

Source: http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/

(Time Warner Cable- Trying to find the source where Comcast said they would follow suit)
Pay-Per-Bit
2008

Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/product...ered-web_N.htm

Bandwidth Throttling
2010 (April 6)

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that regulators had limited power over Web traffic under current law. The decision will allow Internet service companies to block or slow specific sites and charge video sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster to users.

The court decision was a setback to efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to require companies to give Web users equal access to all content, even if some of that content is clogging the network.

The court ruling, which came after Comcast asserted that it had the right to slow its cable customers’ access to a file-sharing service called BitTorrent, could prompt efforts in Congress to change the law in order to give the F.C.C. explicit authority to regulate Internet service.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html

2009

Comcast says that sustained use of 70% of your up or downstream throughput triggers the BE state, at which point you'll find your traffic priority lowered until your usage drops to 50% of your provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth for "a period of approximately 15 minutes." A throttled Comcast user being placed in a BE state "may or may not result in the user's traffic being delayed or, in extreme cases, dropped before PBE traffic is dropped."

Source: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/N...-Online-100015

Originally Posted by Rawr

My biggest beef with comcast is that when I play on TTP servers my hops go like up to chicago, then to pennsylvania, to colorado to texas, something really random. I still only have like a 60 - 70 ping, but my friend in Rhode Island runs with like a 40 ping... oh their support usually sucks.

The main point of the all the quotes is this:
Do you think Comcast should have the power to tell you what you can and cannot browse to on the internet?
They are trying to do this in-directly... by slowing down access to certain sites.

The routing isn't the issue here...
And if you're a gamer, then good-luck keeping a good connection (See last quote)

Originally Posted by Imisnew2

The routing isn't the issue here...
And if you're a gamer, then good-luck keeping a good connection (See last quote)

Honestly, I am not worried about it in the least bit... They are mostly targeting mass file sharers.

Gamers aren't going to be hurt by this. The population as a whole has too many gamers for any of the large providers to really do anything that hurts them without losing a rather large customer base.

I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I loaded up uTorrent to get on Team Fortress 2.