2 edits | I don't know why anyone defends Comcast Simply put, Comcast is an awful cable company. I am shocked that so many people tolerate their draconian policies and actually go so far as to defend them. About 3 months ago, I moved from a location that was serviced by Cox to a location now served by Comcast. The difference in how the two companies are run is simply amazing. Cox doesn't have any invisible download caps, nor do they throttle bittorrent traffic because they had the foresight to build a good enough infrastructure from the beginning. They also were awesome with their business services. My old company in my old city had just recently gotten hooked up to a Cox 22mbps local fiber line to connect us with a remote office about 20 miles away across a river. It was previously served by a crappy old T1 line, which made copying files over the network a nightmare. However, that new fiber line gave us something that approximated lAN speeds and a latency below 3 ms....it kicked ass, and so did Cox.
The reality is that most people serviced by Comcast likely don't know what other Cable ISPs are like and have somehow convinced themselves that Comcast is like all the others. Sorry, but nope! I laugh my ass off whenever I see people (who don't know any better) defending these ridiculous measures as "neccessary". As if that weren't enough, you have people who are stupid enough to go so far as to applaud these measures.
I am not going to worry about any download caps, and I will do everything in my power to get around their stupid bittorrent throtlling. If Comcast wants to send me a nastygram, I will cancel my service and take my business to Qwest. In the meantime, I will derive great pleasure from the fact that somewhere, the people defending Comcast will be pissing their pants over the fact that people like me are circumventing these draconian measures. |
