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[Drew68]

It was only a matter of time before the cable companies got wise to guys like me who've scaled their cable service back to bare bones while streaming 375GB a month. I saw this coming a long time ago.

My question: Does it really cost Comcast for how many gigs I use?

[FrankR]

There’s very few movies worth paying for these days anyway, most are liberal propaganda, or horny teeny bopper films...so this is mostly irrelevant to me.

[daisy mae for the usa]

We recently subscribed to Netflix. Just yesterday the scroll featured several gay movies. So cable won’t have to kill Netflix. We will kill it off our own TV. We will not support any media pushing the Marxist agenda.

[jurroppi1]

Comcast among others have also been proven to be throttling customers who use other streaming products like Netflix.

This is from the comcast forums:
06-30-2011 04:20 PM

Comcast ~is~ definitively throttling your data download speeds whenever you go to Netflix. I’d been fighting Comcast for 6 months on speed issues, and have written two in-depths analysis on the problem.

If you want to see for yourself (and I recommend you try this test yourself, just for your own peace of mind that you are not crazy!), read this article:

http://www.lonniewest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=135:comcast2&catid=9:technolo...

This article is a follow-up to an earlier analysis showing how Comcast support personnel will deliberately have users test their download speed using a ~Comcast~ speed test (because Comcast does not throttle their own servers!) and simply pass off the problem as a slow computer or “network problems” with the sites you are visiting.

As you can see from the Netflix before and after tests... This is all complete BS: you cannot deny that throttling is happening and it is specifically aimed at a competing streaming video provider.

You are paying for bandwidth you are not really getting.

See the following for the above: http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Connectivity-and-Modem-Help/Re-Throttling-down-Netflix/td-p/853513

That is of course from a 2011 thread, but you can find numerous other fora with the same type of thread/complaint.

I have heard some people claim they throttle to the extent of not having Comcast’s digital telephone service while streaming.

[Terry Mross]

Comcast owns both parties. That’s why they get away with being a monopoly.

[Rapscallion]

COMCAST XFINITY = wireless COMCAST “services” = control over streaming = crushing of NETFLIX

[Rapscallion]

They do not need more capacity. We need cable a-la-carte program selection instead of all channels bundled.

[Oatka]

I just got a ROKU device to see what all this streaming fuss was about.

At first I was disappointed as their channel selection, outside of Netflix and HULU, seemed pretty lame. I had already milked Netflix of all their golden oldeies and see nothing interesting in the new releases. HULU is mostly old sitcoms that I never watched anyway.

Somewhere I found THIS SITE , which changed my perspective. LOTS of goodies - foreign news channels for one and I am still exploring. As with anything else, lots of dreck out there also, but you have the ability of saying "no thanks".

[RayChuang88]

I wonder will such a suit even have meaning within ten years. Thanks to the rollout of IPv6 and superfast broadband (over 100 megabits per second download speeds), pretty soon even your cable channels will be nothing more than TV quality streaming videos, each sent from its own unique IPv6 address.

[SamAdams76]

They need to be more scared of Apple.

Apple will soon transform the home entertainment industy the same way they did with the music industry (iTunes, iPad) and the cellphone industry (iPhone).

Not saying that's a bad thing. Innovation is good. The cable industry has been stagnant for a long time and their overall content gets worse and worse. I'm sick of supporting MSNBC, CNN, MTV and all those godawful cooking shows with my monthly cable bill. I only want to support programming that I actually watch. We need a new business model and a la carte is the way to go.

[Mozilla]

It is a shame what Comcast is doing. but netflix has its own problem. read a lot of complaints last year when the service increased fees. Most of them were about the quality of the service and justifying the increase with out improving the service. There are alternatives though. Like RedBox and Amazon pipe. I am sure the Comcast thing affects them too.

Meanwhile the data caps thing is very controversial. Time Warner’s roadrunner had to stop a test of it in 2009 after negative feedback. I’m on a service with data caps but as you yet have not gone over the monthly limit. So far things are working out well for me. It is a high enough limit that I don’t do enough to go over.

[mountainfolk]

We would be really out of touch with the world if we did what we are so inclined to do, ditch our satellite provider and rely only on the radio and the Internet to stay informed. We, as do so many others, pay what is proportionatly a huge price for so small a selection of interesting and/or useful programing. We know that we are supporting horrible programs that would not see the light of TV day if they to had earn their keep. RedBox and Netflix have been great for the occasional yen to see a movie and it seems they also are under attack. Eventually we will be back to square one with only the radio and good books. And of course the internet. Not that that is a bad thing.