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Comments on news posted 2007-08-21 18:10:35: We (and other outlets we've spoken to) have been trying to get Comcast to comment on reports that the company has started using Sandvine gear to disrupt the seeding of BitTorrent files. ..
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Jbutters
@ubalt.edu
| Don't Use it??? It's easy to say don't use it when there aren't any other alternatives. Give me an alternative like FIOS or whatever and I will leave comcast in a second. Unfortunately right now that's not the case.
Instead they are screwing up my uploads which in turn screws up your relationship with bit torrent sites and other peers. Regardless of why they are doing it and if people are doing things illegally or not they are screwing over all power users assuming everything on bit torrent is illegal. That's why people are so mad. Not because they are doing it but because they have a monopoly and are doing it and we don't have a choice right now but to accept it or cancel the internet. Neither of which are good or even acceptable options. | |
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CaptChas
@verizon.net | A new kind of hog I hear a lot of talk about High Definition TV coming to us over the internet. When this happens, what will the ISPs do when all their 'garden variety' subscribers continuously consume bandwidth at 15 megabits per second? | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
 ·Embarq
| Traffic Shaping??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!
It takes the numbnuts a week to find a bad router card that leaves entire areas unable to reach half the fookin' internets now! Anyone who believes these morons can implement anything more technical than block sync (and even that's a stretch in some cases) is a dupe.
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Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. | |
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species5618
@comcast.net | RE: Comcast using Sandvine Unfortunately, when we signed up with com****, we did agree to the terms.
It would be nice to hear them admit that they are doing what has been observed though.
Hmmm
The truth from a big company, what a concept | |
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Bellunder
@teksavvy.com
| Blame Canada and Ted 100 Percent For This One We are sorry for the wrongdoings of one Ted Rogers. I know the SEC would shut him down pronto and likely charge him too if he existed in a great nation such as America. I'll tell you it's sickening to be a Canadian and always having to bendover at Ted's whim. Monopolies are wrong very wrong. Duopolies are also wrong very wrong. The infrastructures for internet service both for cable and dsl are on a par with Africa thanks to no competition up here from America. Well if America won't come here we'll go there. Satellite internet from America is already cheaper than broadband from Canada for Canadians. Seems our Canadian price of internet service goes up every month as the rest of the world pays less and less every year. | |
| magusat999
join:2005-07-08
Oakland, CA
| It all our faults! You know, I read this and some other stories about Comcast, got angry and even wrote some insane posts about it. Then after I calmed down and thought about it I realized that we all are responsible for this. It's very easy to stop companies from doing things like this - pass laws to stop it. Years ago, the majority of us just sat by while, and even supported it, while the "government" and big business got together to "own and operate" the internet (not just facilitate access, as previous to that move). We allowed them to take ownership free public property, and exact tariffs, restrictions, and rulesets upon us. Some of us did it out of a sense of "justice" - those damn pirates; those evil hackers; the unscrupulous criminals all had to be stopped from using the internet to perform their unsightly deeds! Or so we were told the purpose of invading and governing the web and it's users would be. Of course - the porn sites were ok...
What we weren't told was that the real reason was to sift through our wallets, and make the internet a more corporate cash flow friendly place. The people who thought they were supporting "justice" are no more safer than when we began. the digital criminals are doing what they have been doing all along as if nothing happened. the only people getting punished are end users, and apparently 12 year olds who download music - and their 86 year old grandmothers who don't even know what an mp3 is.
In this atmosphere, where the "government" has crown companies as barons over the land - and "we the people" are merely their fodder - businesses like Comcast are allowed and encouraged to invade your privacy, and cut your service. It's okay for them to throttle you - as a matter of fact WE authorized them to do so by NOT passing any regulation that stops them to do so. We have become willing peons of corporations like Comcast.
The good thing is that no matter how far it has come - we still have the power to stop / change things. All we have to do is to CHANGE OR ENACT LAWS. That's all it takes. If we aren't going to write laws - then when you see one that fits our purpose - vote for it, if not vote against it. Vote against polititians that don't agree or don't work for us. If we aren't willing to do at least that - what the hell are we complaining about?
And lastly - next time you support some "regulation" at least consider how it can be turned upon you. Don't think you will always be exempt because "you aren't doing that". It's better to leave things free and wide open than to letting laws lock you in because somebodies "got to be stopped". Ask that 86 year old grandma who never heard of the internet before she got sued by the RIAA... | |
| MicroMonkey
join:2007-08-27
3 edits | comcast stuff yep, as soon as FIOS gets here, comcast loses me as a customer. But then again, what happens if FIOS turns out to be the same way eventually? Either way, I have dual T3 lines at my office, and comcast can suck that. I dont like a company throttling or telling me what protocol I can use especially when I pay the bill....retards. Thats almost like telling you that you are only allowed to drive a red car on the highway, no other colors allowed. | |
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