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Re: Complain about Comcast=Have your Reputation Scrutinized
Hi Rick,
First off, the peaceful way civilized people handle unresolvable disputes is through the courts, perhaps you would have preferred something akin to »75-Year-Old Woman Takes Hammer to Comcast Office instead? C'mon.
Secondly, I haven't moved my resume. It's still where it has always been and the link works: »www.funchords.com/Robert_Topolsk···ting.pdf and it is not hosted on my home network. As to my response to Comcast's attack, see HERE and check out the final pages.
Third, I don't want this audience's support. I want them to know why I am not using Comcast anymore. I have been using Comcast all of this time, and now I'm not. I thought that the reason I switched was interesting and that it would be an interesting post. I know where I'm posting and I know that I won't have everyone's support. On the contrary, this is where I'm likely to meet the best critics -- and that's meant as a compliment.
Fourth, I doubt I need to advertise the suit. As Class Action suits go, everyone impacted is easily identified through company records and will be notified at the right time as to how to participate or how to remove themselves from participation. First it has to be certified as a class, so let's not get the cart before the horse.
Finally, good will means that you ought to assume positive intent. Cripes!
--Robb
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1 edit | said by funchords  :Hi Rick, First off, the peaceful way civilized people handle unresolvable disputes is through the courts, perhaps you would have preferred something akin to » 75-Year-Old Woman Takes Hammer to Comcast Office instead? C'mon. Secondly, I haven't moved my resume. It's still where it has always been and the link works: » www.funchords.com/Robert_Topolsk···ting.pdf and it is not hosted on my home network. As to my response to Comcast's attack, see HERE and check out the final pages. Third, I don't want this audience's support. I want them to know why I am not using Comcast anymore. I have been using Comcast all of this time, and now I'm not. I thought that the reason I switched was interesting and that it would be an interesting post. I know where I'm posting and I know that I won't have everyone's support. On the contrary, this is where I'm likely to meet the best critics -- and that's meant as a compliment. Fourth, I doubt I need to advertise the suit. As Class Action suits go, everyone impacted is easily identified through company records and will be notified at the right time as to how to participate or how to remove themselves from participation. First it has to be certified as a class, so let's not get the cart before the horse. Finally, good will means that you ought to assume positive intent. Cripes! --Robb Robb, I really think it would be more appropriate to put your resume as a bittorrent download file  j/k | |
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Just because someone may be employed in one field that doesn't mean they care not a professional in another. Some of my QA clients work in the network space such as WAN acceleration products, etc.
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said by funchords :Lack of competition means that leaving Comcast HSI behind is quite a big step down for me. But I've had DSL for a few months now, and it's definitely got its own problems -- Enough problems for another lawsuit maybe? | |
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| said by wenter99 :said by funchords :Lack of competition means that leaving Comcast HSI behind is quite a big step down for me. But I've had DSL for a few months now, and it's definitely got its own problems -- Enough problems for another lawsuit maybe? Let's not turn this into a sniping contest on Robb. He went out of his way to resolve the problem before going to this extreme and hinting that he would be an lawsuit happy individual is far from reality. | |
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said by Rick :There is and has been this VERY vocal...VERY minor portion of users who for the longest time now think they own the entire network. And that is the 5% of people who consume 50% of the bandwidth and who expect everyone else to pay for it for them. Those folks are pretty obvious, aren't they? But the real question to ask is whether or not they should have a reasonable expectation that this is what they'll get.
Up until a couple of weeks ago, Comcast was advertising and selling a 6 Mbps tier on their site, with PowerBoosts up to double-digits. Now there is no mention of that 6 Mbps/384 Kbps tier on the site. Why?
Because Comcast finally realized what Karl, myself, and many others have been saying all along -- that Comcast can't offer something disclosed and then start enforcing undisclosed caps and employing technology in order to deliver less bandwidth secretly. (By the way, they really took the low road by eliminating the basic rate -- now customers are going to expect that "PowerBoost" is the basic rate. Sheeeesh!).
The user got a 6 Mbps/384 Kbps expectation because Comcast gave it to them, and they made a deal based on that expectation.
said by Rick :We ALL know what those people are doing. They are trading copyrighted material all day and all night long over their RESIDENTIAL connections. Do know that your neighbors, right this very minute, might be smoking, cheating on their taxes, or taking 3 Tylenol instead of 2 recommended by the manufacturer?
I don't see the Mortgage company installing smoke detectors, the FDA doesn't audit Tylenol, and the IRS hasn't installed spy-cams in our homes.
If people are not abusing the network by unlocking their modems, sending forged packets, sending spam, keeping you from enjoying your service, or trying to break into the accounts or others -- then why do you care? Licensing of copyrighted material is a matter between the user and the licensee. The ISP has nothing to do with it.
And I'm not sure it's even true these days. Most TV and Movie shows are available in good quality and full length cheaply from licensed sources. Finally, the studios seem to be listening to what their fans want.
The result, HTTP and streaming video are now the largest bandwidth users. What's really changed? Should the ISPs start blocking these in the name of "network management"?
said by Rick :Servers are not allowed. Señor Management disagrees with you.
said by Rick :But that just don't matter to them anymore than stealing other peoples work matters to them. Somewhere in the back of their minds it's all ok because they're anonymous. And, it's just "there" for the taking. Well..so too is goods in a store front window after a massive riot smashes storefronts. It never was theirs to take. They are thieves. I'll try to remember that you're not talking about everyone here -- lest you are calling me a thief. Unless, of course, you are calling me a thief.
said by Rick :"1. Turning Sandvine off right now and replacing it with nothing would be an improvement. It does little good and does a lot of harm to innocent users. I have been asking for this all along." Comcast is saying in their filing you have no network experience. And that statement proves it. Because what would happen..just by the very nature of this shared network we're all using..is if that happened.. immediately..we'd all be posting on our dial up connections to the Comcast forum screaming that we simply had no connection at all. Now whose guessing? Only Comcast and Cox use RST packets from Sandvine.
And I have plenty of network experience, Rick.
said by Rick :The p2p crowds unrelenting 24/7 saturation of the upstream would take down comcasts entire nationwide network IMHO. And..it would take down the entire networks of every cable operator out there. Only Comcast and Cox use RST packets from Sandvine.
said by Rick :Your statement is misinformed..and wishful thinking. And not reality. What you would like comcast to do is similar to you asking Citibank to take down their alarms..unlock their doors 24/7..and leave no one in the bank..and trust that no one will rob them. No, because I'm not saying that Comcast should unlock everyone's modem and turned the shared pools into a free-for-all. However, ironically, they're doing something very similar all by themselves. They just increased the modem uploads from 384 Kbps to 1 Mbps on 100% of the network while they only upgraded the shared bandwidth on 8.7% of the network.
said by Rick :I fully understand that Sandvine has some unwelcome carryover effects. On people who don't fall into that 5%. But no one can reasonably argue that the VAST majority of those it seeks to prevent from harming this network is the ones i've described above. You know it..and I know it. And everyone who's been around BBR more than a month knows it. By that logic, Comcast can replace Sandvine with a device that causes the modem to emit Sarin gas instead of sending RST packets. After all, unintended side-effects aren't all that important. (yes, I know you don't support that -- I'm using absurdity to point out absurdity)
said by Rick :As you know..what my biggest complaint has been about your posts is that you fail to recognize and acknowledge that. And even in your statement above..you fail to recognize that. You say that it's comcasts problem and not yours to worry about..but that would be like you saying to your state they need to eliminate all their speed limits and laws and just let everyone else deal with it. You offer up no solutions at all. And in doing so...are simply representing that 5% of people who the 95% are tired of carrying on the backs of their hard earned paychecks. Rick, here is my original post: »Comcast is using Sandvine to manage P2P Connections
In that post, I do make suggestions, "- These are being installed silently -- why? Why not install them noisily, and provoke action on the makers of P2P applications to seek out peers with lower TTLs (translation: electrically closer, more likely to be 'in-network')."
And even though I'm soooooooo disqualified, I observe that one of the major IETF efforts to come out of the P2PI Working Group has established its goal to do exactly the above suggestion. I must have just gotten lucky, since I'm just a little old software tester.
said by Rick :I've said before and I'll say again..I think that what Comcast was and is doing is watching out for not only themselves..but the vast majority of we users. They have to serve all of their users, or they should not do business with anyone that they don't intend to give full service to. They can't pretend to offer them service and then secretly use technology to take it back.
said by Rick :I have a great experience with my connection..get great speeds..and have no problems at all with connecting to anything. I think your criticism of them is unfounded. My criticism of them is mine, not yours. I think you ought to broaden your view, because how you can consider mine "unfounded" after all that has transpired confounds me.
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said by wenter99 :said by funchords :Lack of competition means that leaving Comcast HSI behind is quite a big step down for me. But I've had DSL for a few months now, and it's definitely got its own problems -- Enough problems for another lawsuit maybe? Heh, one ISP at a time.
Yeah, Verizon probably isn't celebrating me at this point, either.   
Lest anyone take this idea seriously, don't.
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