Yeah, this was just a short test of the system which will be put into affect in 2007... They will charge users $5 extra to access the top 50 sites on the internet (at their full speed).
I think it may be in place now. Every evening access to most sites is congested, and the choke point is the first hop off our local (Rankin, MS) Comcast network. But some sites like Yahoo blast right through the congestion. Hmmm, is Yahoo paying Comcast to prioritize their packets???