Comments on: Comcast undecided on new p2p policy

By: costa200

costa200 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:39:34 +0000

so if they throtle your connection will they throttle your bill too? Contracts made with costumers usually are about a maximum bandwith. If that bandwith is not being supplied on purpose then someone should sue them to kingdom come…

By: thehun

thehun — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:39:00 +0000

Comcast is still throttling bandwith blocking certain port
ranges and so nothing has really changed. Therefore the FCC ruling has had no effect.

By: farscape

farscape — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:38:21 +0000

The underlying problem is this:
The corporations simply don’t want to shell out their ‘ripped off’ customers cash to improve their capacities and simply want to slow customer’s speed down to deal with their so-called overloads. This is not fair, not right and certainly not healthy for a business model…
The simple fact is that they should be forced by US regulations to drastically improve their capacities and provide the services which they advertise so freely. We [in the USA] are already falling leagues behind the rest of the world in terms of connection speeds. The Japanese have DSL service that is 10-30 times as fast as our fastest Cable provider service… Korea, Europe, Asia and elsewhere also far exceed our capacities. The USA is falling behind in one of the most lucrative fields, Internet Service Providing… and we as a populace sit idly around with our thumbs up our butts and just let it happen…
Speaks loads for the USA as a whole, I think.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:18:50 +0000

Comcast is still angling to move to tiered pay system base on usage. Watch these micro-steps because they all have the end results.

By: Hello

Hello — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:15:44 +0000

Blunden (13), nice connection. Where do you live? And what ISP are you with?

By: ComcastSUCKS

ComcastSUCKS — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:34:27 +0000

@Barry: If you live in TX then it might of been legit.

By: ComcastSUCKS

ComcastSUCKS — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:32:55 +0000

It’s total crap that Comcast is BLAMING THE CUSTOMER for their network’s SCALABILITY PROBLEMS. During peak usage they need to provide ADDITIONAL CAPACITY! Not LIMIT USERS TO SAVE MONEY. The customers are paying for a service that was promised to them and nowhere in the agreement did it say their traffic was to be slowed down.

THIS IS WORSE THAN BEFORE NOT BETTER.

I LOL though @ the fact that now not just warez puppies but all users get screwed.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:17:43 +0000

If comcast cannot supply what they advertise they should just get out of the business. It is not a customers fault if they advertise high speeds and then a user actually uses those speeds to their advantage.

By: Serpiror

Serpiror — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:15:17 +0000

Who cares about P2P? I download from FTP server with 256bits TLS/SSL encryption.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:03:03 +0000

I actually got a call from Comcast Corporate office about a month ago. The guy told me that I was over the limit for a residential user. I asked him what exactly that limit was and he said that he couldn’t tell me that, but that I was over it at 500GB down in a month.

He also said that this was the only warning I would get and they would cut off my internet without further notice! Not sure if it was some kind of hoax, but my connection doesn’t seem to have changed.

By: blunden

blunden — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:51:58 +0000

They don’t seem to understand that what they need to do is improve their capacity. Just shows how greedy they really are. Over here an ISP that slowed people down deliberately wouldn’t exist for very long. I can max my 100/100 connection all the time for the fraction of the cost you guys have to pay. That’s not exactly fair.

By: snaggletooth

snaggletooth — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:57:25 +0000

AOL (UK) cut my speed to 0.5meg every night from 6pm-midnight. Been doing it for a year and a half. That said, they dont bother me the rest of the day, so all my juicy RS steals are done between 00.01-1759 @ around 6.9meg from my 8MB line

By: å∑†øπµ∫ç

å∑†øπµ∫ç — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:54:05 +0000

Thank god for my 30Mb Fios connection, I can DL from usenet at my full speed for 24 hours a day without it ever dropping below 29.9

By: thom

thom — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:10 +0000

for up to 20 minutes?!

most uk ISPs put you onto an incredibly crap server, that’s insanely slow, disconnects often if you’re caught using extra bandwidth between 5/6pm-11/midnight

By: common sense

common sense — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:27:01 +0000

Ummm Gates are you really that gullable? In most states (and soon to be in all) theft of a neighbors internet is looked upon as just as bad as theft of cable services and treated as same if caught. That means doofy, that you can shell out some money and volunteer to spend a few weeks in the greybar hotel for doing this. Not to mention now you have a record and name me one well paying company that will take a chance on you after seeing this…

So why ruin your life just because you are mad ay your ISP?

You really are not that bright are you? If you were you would not have made that idiotic statement.