Comments on: Comcast admits fooling with P2P traffic

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:07:11 +0000

“not blocking, just delaying” LMAO
Don’t you just love it when companies lie through their teeth, and are then forced to admit it.

By: ED COBB

ED COBB — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:17:30 +0000

I HAVE BELIEVED FOR SOMETIME, THAT MY INTERNET SPEED WAS LIMITED BY THE CABLE COMPANY WHICH WAS CONFIRMED,AFTER DOING VARIOUS SPEED CHECKS. MY PROVIDER AT THE TIME WAS TIME WARNER CABLE. AFTER CALLING THEM OUT ON IT I FOUND OUT THEY WERE GIVING ME THE LOWEST TIER OF SERVICE DUE TO DOWNLOADING “OVERLOADING THEIR SYSTEM” B.S. I HAVE SINCE SWITCHED TO PRO DSL AND THINGS WERE FINE UNTIL I DECIDED TO GET RID OF MY LOCAL PHONE SERVICE FOR VOIP. THE PHONE COMPANY TURNED OFF EVERYTHING BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE. A WEEK BEFORE. PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE EXPEROENCED THIS OR ANY OTHER TROUBLE WITH ATT. AT COBBHOUSE67@AOL.COM
I ALSO WANT TO HEAR OF ANY CABLE PROVIDER COMPLAINTS. I CAN HELP YOU RESOLVE THAT S–T I’VE DELT WITH IT, LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES. P2P IS A GOOD THING THAT PROMOTES INOVATION.

By: bo

bo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:55:11 +0000

correction: “comcast is available about 5 minutes from where i LIVE”

By: bo

bo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:50:53 +0000

comcast is available about 5 minutes from where i like, but i have charter communications.

my connection with them is 10down/1up. i used to read stuff about other ISP’s and be glad i had charter.

(of course, the Jammie Thomas was railroaded, and she had charter. )

anyway, its a scary thought that all the telecom/cable companies are so against net neutrality, with all their lobbyists and money. lets hope they put a stop to this.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:22:07 +0000

The DSL companies will do this someday.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:56:04 +0000

The problem is that they are not just messing up with P2P traffic. They are messing up with all the traffic. 20 percent packet lost or delayed all accross the trafic.

The effect are: videostream stoping sudenly in the middle of the play, web page sometime frezzing during download or page download that never finish and that sometine frezze IE.

So you got more speed than DSL but if the stream does not have a consistant speed the extra speed does not do anything good because it make video streaming crappy. Also forget about VOIP!

If you use internet for mostly text with few pictures read the news and Email you don’t need high speed. Go with a dialup on a second phone line if you have too

If you use video and audio stream you don’t need Comcast because the stream keep breaking.

Go with DSL then. The speed is always fast enoungh for video and audio stream and the speed is consistant so the stream does not break all the time like with Comcast.

Comcast they are fast they are fast but crappy. The quality factor is only %80 or less.

Don’t go with comcast.