JasonD
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| Re: EFF Protects the Consumer's Interests Surely you jest. Bittorent is the scourge of the internet and should be stopped, Comcast is doing it way too politely. As for the EFF, well their focus should be on where it would matter most for consumers. Instead of frivolous suits and claims against corporate entities (which is bad for business and raises prices for consumers) they should be investigating and going after phishers, scammers, spammers, and online pirates. | |
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Mashimaro
Problematic
join:2003-09-25
Alexander City, AL | Re: EFF Protects the Consumer's Interests Says the anonymous Comcast employee. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | Re: EFF Protects the Consumer's Interests Yup... I suspect it as well.
CableCo/Telco will raise bandwidth rates IF there's low usage.
Eg. 20Mbps connection isn't an issue if there's low usage.
This works similar to an old fashioned Telco CO, where there's a fixed capacity for lets say 40% at any one time (i.e. 40% of the phones can be calling at the same time).
Typical Internet usage (browsing, video clips,downloads) support this model
Bittorrent is a chatty protocol, and many would see this as excess traffic, or consider it as 'running servers', in a method to deter the usage of p2p/Bittorrent. An old telco equivalent would think of this as having multiple people connecting to a local # and leaving the 2 connections open. Get enough of this, and capacity issues arise.
I don't justify it... if they can't support 20Mbps, then don't offer it. Offering it, then packet shaping / filtering / throttling apps at their discression is not the answer.
Why not do it the old / AOL style:
5Mbps 'Internet' (unrestricted) = $60
20Mbps 'proxied/filtered/restricted Internet want to be' $45
This will solve this issue. Sell the Internet as the what it is. Sell a proxied/ad filled/content pushed/cookie based/data mined AOL wannabe as an alternative.
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Da Geek Kid
join:2003-10-11
Mclean, VA | surely yer full of $#!t...
Comcast should never be in a business that can't handle the load. We all know they cannot handle that much traffic per customer... | |
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gateguy
Premium
join:2001-02-12
Reisterstown, MD | I use the Bittorent client built into World of Warcraft to send and receive patches. That is the only time I use any sort of P2P software (that I am aware of).
Does that make me part of the scourge? | |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs:
1 edit | Re: EFF Protects the Consumer's Interests yes.
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bi0tech
join:2003-06-19 | I often wonder how many of these type statements on a variety of subjects are true shills, overzealous non-sanctioned employee opinion, or just true believers of nonsense on their own accord.
JasonD care to fill us in? | |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Re: EFF Protects the Consumer's Interests You got to wait till business hours so he can clock in first. | |
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