| How will the discern when it is needed? "... will kick in when users are downloading films and other bandwidth sucking content (of the non-pirated flavor) ..."
How will they be able to tell when it is needed, and when it is legal? Is anyone wondering if this is only with prearrange 3rd entities like MovieStink? 
BTW, this isn't priortizing of traffic. They simply are opening the amount of available best-effort transmission. If someone else on your network leg is doing something else, your packets are treated no different from their packets. |
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| I bet its just for approved websites that they have a on list. They might even be asking for money in order to get on this list. |
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said by GhostDoggy:"... will kick in when users are downloading films and other bandwidth sucking content (of the non-pirated flavor) ..." How will they be able to tell when it is needed, and when it is legal? Is anyone wondering if this is only with prearrange 3rd entities like MovieStink? BTW, this isn't priortizing of traffic. They simply are opening the amount of available best-effort transmission. If someone else on your network leg is doing something else, your packets are treated no different from their packets. It is prioritization. They prioritize packets from certain providers, so that those packets will not only be ensured to get to you, but ensured to go faster also. A regular HTTP download from download.com may be capped at 6mbps still, but Comcast's preferred partner for downloads will get prioritized traffic that will get more throughput on comcast's network.
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| Its not "preferred partners". it will be available for downloads in general. Alot of people have already been seeing this in the Comcast forums for months.
""and will kick in when users are downloading films and other bandwidth sucking content (of the non-pirated flavor). ""
The mod wrote that in general. It doesnt say anything like that in the article. |
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1 edit | I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, since you are posting from a Comcast Corporate IP address......
I don't know if you're an engineer or not, but can you explain how they are able to surpass the 6 or 8 meg cap without having to reset the modem?
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| said by Kickroot:I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, since you are posting from a Comcast Corporate IP address...... I don't know if you're an engineer or not, but can you explain how they are able to surpass the 6 or 8 meg cap without having to reset the modem? Every network has the ability to burst. Cable is no different. On the new docsis system the modem and the head end talk together to allow the system to burst. The head end will tell the modem to ignore the speed on the modem for xx seconds then have it kick in. also certain packets can be tagged as a let it flow type packet to over ride the modems config.
Try snooping the cable network some time there is so much info going back and forth over it that it would make your head spin.
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said by tiger72:said by GhostDoggy:"... will kick in when users are downloading films and other bandwidth sucking content (of the non-pirated flavor) ..." How will they be able to tell when it is needed, and when it is legal? Is anyone wondering if this is only with prearrange 3rd entities like MovieStink? BTW, this isn't priortizing of traffic. They simply are opening the amount of available best-effort transmission. If someone else on your network leg is doing something else, your packets are treated no different from their packets. It is prioritization. They prioritize packets from certain providers, so that those packets will not only be ensured to get to you, but ensured to go faster also. A regular HTTP download from download.com may be capped at 6mbps still, but Comcast's preferred partner for downloads will get prioritized traffic that will get more throughput on comcast's network. I thought Darth Whitacre said they are not prioritizing packets. |
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That's simple enough: the modem doesn't control optimization on a single connection (between the customer and a particular site). That is usually a combination of QoS (where applicable) and traffic-shaping. Neither depends on the modem's configuration. To eliminate the modem itself *bottlenecking* the connection, a separate signal could be sent to the modem, telling it to ignore a prioritized connection. That *would* most likely be a QoS function.
Understanding that much doesn't take an engineer. Anyone that has a Network+ (or even Security+) certification (the different methods of optimization of a network connection are covered in both certifications) should be able to understand it. |
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Am I the only one that bothered to notice?
Speedboost is only for the first 10 megs of the file.
Just read the fine print on the stupid comcast commericals.
This thing is such a joke.
I wish FIOS service was available here. When I called they listed a couple towns in some dead ass corner of the state.
When I asked if they were going to be expanding into the Hartford area (Capitol area) the rep said "no".. wtf..
Don't they usually do this stuff in cities first, then suburbs? |
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