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Re: Complain about Comcast=Have your Reputation Scrutinized said by Nerdtalker:I found this particularly unnerving: We considered whether some form of metered usage could adequately address the problem. Metered usage would allow us to ensure that we are appropriately distributing the costs of the network usage to those who use the network most. However, metered usage has not been widely accepted in the marketplace, and, in any event, doesn’t directly address the issue of congestion in the network. It's funny you should pick that. They've also admitted in a previous filing HERE, that Sandvine doesn't directly address the issue of congestion in the network, either. Specifically, Comcast’s current P2P management is triggered when the number of P2P uploads in a given area for a particular P2P protocol reaches a certain, pre-determined level, regardless of the level of overall network traffic at that time, and regardless of the time of day when the applicable P2P protocol threshold is reached. That's right!! -- Sandvine doesn't use congestion as a factor. It simply counts connections that it thinks are uploading and cuts off anything above that count, even if there is bandwidth available! It's what I had been saying all along that the level of interference didn't go up and down following probable congestion patterns (despite my obvious lack of qualifications  ), but was the same level 24/7.
So, here's their defense? Given the choice of preventing congestion by ...
A. publicly organizing their business model with "metered usage" which was not widely accepted in the marketplace nor directly addressing congestion, or
B. secretly blocking uploads using packet forgery methods and also not widely accepted in the marketplace and ALSO not directly addressing congestion ... Comcast chose "B"? Not that I would want metered usage, but at least it's honest.
Our reply to that disclosure is HERE and most of the geek stuff starts on page 8.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
Comcast: We never did anything wrong, and we'll never do it again...
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