Comments on: Comcast throttling p2p traffic!

By: robie boie

robie boie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:19:59 +0000

well ai have comcast costumer here with abig acct and after reading this posting the costumer wants to cancel the acct after i showed and proved to her she was being cheat by comcast.

By: Sto12m

Sto12m — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:48:52 +0000

is this the start of the breakdown of Net neutrality?
time will only telll…

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:54:15 +0000

I also have Comcast and I usually upload at 30-50 kb/s. It can get faster, but only for short periods of time. Usually I lose my connection when I’m uploading very fast.

Evil corporations rule the U.S.

By: Emm

Emm — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:48:02 +0000

@30, Steve… no ISP is lying!
Most of us pay for a minimum assured bw of 1 KB/s! That’s it!
If however you’ve agreed to a contract where it states that the minimum bw is of 1 Mbps then they’re not allowed to drop below that at any time or they can be sued! It’s all in your contract… but for marketing purposes, that’s not mentioned in their “commercials” and they have the legal right to do so.
Anyway… it’s unfair to the clients. They pay the bill after all!

By: shimon

shimon — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:01:30 +0000

comcast is going down !!

By: B513A

B513A — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:49:00 +0000

ugh. i hate you comcast. i’ve been paying so much for a high connection, and don’t even get “fast speed” ninety percent of the time. i wish i could switch… their customer service is a load of B.S. too… death to comcast!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:13:18 +0000

Switching to another ISP IS a problem when you have service providers who were ORIGINALLY legislated to break up their monopoly and have now reconverged. The service provider you have may be the ONLY one in your area. So if you choose to drop them then you are pretty much without internet or you have to move to a slower service like dialup.

Face it. They have the right to stop people from breaking their user agreement which is ‘to not abuse their service for illicit means’ but to lie and say they are not doing it is worse than people who use the service for downloading anything.

This is somewhat old news but the findings from a particular ISP and confirmation is not.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:55:47 +0000

Excellent! P2P is for losers. Contribute to earn.

By: IR655

IR655 — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:32:29 +0000

I have Road Runner and I haven’t had any problems yet. PeerGuardian will block a few IP’s that seem to be associated with Time Warner Cable (My ISP)

I get about 600KB/s D and 47KB/s U

By: Cletus

Cletus — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:24:32 +0000

Using comcast

download up to 300
upload up to 45

if i try to download more than 3 files at a time, i *may* have problems.

also, if comcast can identify which users are using p2p/bittorrent, how long before the anti-download police get ahold of that info???

By: Passerby

Passerby — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:14:27 +0000

Here in Ivory Coast we don’t even have food.It’s a miracle you are reading this.

By: siliticx

siliticx — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:01:46 +0000

i’m on cogeco cable here in canada and they are thottling too. If i get an overall 4 kb/s upload on bit torrent , its good.

if i get over 200 k/s on downlaod its extremely good.

By: exrogerscustomer

exrogerscustomer — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:49:49 +0000

Rogers in Canada began doing this and I left them about one year ago because of this and moved to dsl.

I now hear that the rival sympatico will do the same sometime soon.

By: rar

rar — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:44:12 +0000

i feel slightly better about my bandwidth now. on the east coast i pay $45 month for 10 down/2 up. i pretty much always hit 9 down (or 1.2mb/s). seeing that people overseas are paying about the same for dsl style 2 down is crazy. i thought the us was dead last or something in connection vs cost.

i also don’t use any upstream. torrents are for suckers *coughircgopherusenetcough*

By: nesomumi

nesomumi — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:22:56 +0000

Ther in North Korea, you dont even have interenet connectiom .