A Torrent of Comcast BitTorrent Conspiracies
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Stephanie (AKA Script) is also having issues with Comcast:
In reference to your Ustream video about Comcast. I too am an unfortunate Comcast subscriber. I was wondering are you using Comcast Home or Business service? The reason I am asking is that I have a feeling that those of us who use home service are going to be pretty much forced to buy the business service in order to maintain the downloading speeds that we are use to. It’s just a hunch but I have noticed an increasingly high number of Comcast business TV ads lately with the promise of 12Mbps download speed. I am curious about your take on this. Because I think the motivation behind flagging certain users is driven by some monetary gain not because they want to necessarily care about the spread of torrents.
Well, I certainly wouldn’t recommend running a business on any kind of connection that Comcast provides!!! No way. I recently “upgraded” my residential plan to business merely because I could attain a marginally better upload rate. Comcast didn’t force me to make that decision.
However, they’re still mistreating many their customers.
I download torrents from legitimate sites especially a lot of FLAC’s and I also distribute FLAC’s from myself and other indie artist who allow their music to be shared. This indiscriminate profiling of users based on a filetype or protocol they use, is tantamount to racial profiling (something I know a bit about) and it really angers me. Anyway I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the possibility that Comcast might be doing this for monetary gain.
Oh, but… Comcast hasn’t admitted to any wrongdoing on their part. It’s their service, and they can do with it what they wish - but when they don’t tell customers what’s going on, we get a little pissy.
Because of politics and payoffs, you’re stuck with what you’ve got. This is not a system ruled by free enterprise. It’s all about control - and Comcast is pushing a drug that you simply cannot shake. They’re getting to be the only dealer in town. Qwest is just as bad around here; I’d move to FIOS in a heartbeat, but because of the same anti-competitive, anti-consumer regulations… I can’t get Verizon’s service in my area.
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Dan
October 23rd, 2007
at 5:41pm
Chris,
Comcast have made a minor admission to “delaying” P2P traffic http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.....t-traffic/
I’m no defender of the “anti-competitive, anti-consumer regulations” you mention, but that’s unlikely to have anything to do with being unable to get FiOS in your area…. the rollout of FTTP on the scale Verizon has undertaken isn’t something you do on an ad hoc basis. When they get to your neighbourhood it will be available. Where it gets rolled out to and when is simple economics.
If you’re interested in anti-competitive behaviour in relation to FiOS you might want to look into reports of Verizon snipping the old copper telephone wires when customers sign up to the FiOS voice service. The customer (and future occupants of the property) not only lose the choice of going back to POTS, but also the choice of other local providers using the old copper network. Verizon denies this of course.
Jay
October 23rd, 2007
at 7:53pm
Umm i think you banned be from the live chat thing and i was wondering why i havent done anything wrong! I know a lot about ventrillo teamspeak etc… there is another program that is easy to use if you want further info please un ban me and then e mail me!
Razor512
October 25th, 2007
at 7:16am
the only reason why comcast does this is because the customers put up with their level of service
it is the same reason why the price of gum went from 25 cents to 30 cents
if when the price of gum went to 30 cents, everyone stopped buying it, they would have reduced it back to 25 cents because they rather make the 25 cents that they used to make, than 0 cents for their product.
the same goes for comcast, they reduce the quality of their service, they impost stupid limitations (these limitations are there for the sole reason for allowing them to oversell their service with out spending money on upgrading their capacity
comcast may give 10Mbits of bandwidth, but they don’t have enough bandwidth for all of their customers to use 10Mbits at the same time, this is because even though they have gotten more customers over the years, they spent no money into improving the service to handle the load of the extra customers, all they did was add more limitations to prevent their customers from being able to use the speed that they PAID for
they cant expect people to buy a high speed connection and just use it for e-mail
we go for highspeed because we do things that require the added speed
and if they complain that people who use their full speed are causing slowdowns then that meant they there selling bandwidth that they don’t have
it is like having a box of pizza that has 6 equal slices, if you were sharing it with 6 friends, each of you took a slice, would you go crazy and yell at your friend for eating his slice too fast, of taking to big of a bite from his slice?
and if pirating is their argument then
html and ftp can also be used to pirate, so do you think comcast will start blocking or making FTP and HTML traffic extremely slow also?
World Flat Shopping Mall
March 1st, 2008
at 1:01pm
of Wi-Fi by US Internet. In Minneapolis, Qwest and Comcast charge more for less, which isn’t always. Read the full post from Wi-Fi Networking News via Blogdigger blog search for . Good News in Minneapolis, Some Delays in St. Louis ParkA Torrent of Comcast BitTorrent ConspiraciesStephanie (AKA Script) is also having issues with Comcast: In reference to your Ustream video about Comcast. I too am an unfortunate Comcast subscriber. I was wondering are you using Comcast Home or Business service? The reason I am asking is that I