FCC Boss Calls Comcast Traffic Shaping 'Troubling' > FCC's Martin says..

said by aajs :

You misunderstand the situation; Comcast does not "close the roads" all the time, they only close the road when the network is overloaded.

To use a different analogy, consider a bouncer for a popular club. When the club is busy, a bouncer stops new customers from going in; after some customers leave, the bouncer lets more people in. It is true that the bouncer sometimes blocks people, but the reason for blocking people is to delay them from entering the bar when the bar is congested.

Now I'm not a Comcast customer, so I don't know for sure which analogy is true. Perhaps someone who is a Comcast customer can tell us what, if anything, Comcast blocks permanently rather than simply delaying.