Posted on 10/23/2007 5:26:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
My take is Comacast is doing this bit torrent blocking in fits and spurts in various markets. It’s a trial balloon to see how much they can get away with. How loud the sheeple will bleat in protest
A few folks have been “bit hard in court” on the “peer-to-peer” file-sharing programs. I wonder if the telecoms feel a little exposed? Our legal system has already tried gun manufacturers, etc for their products used in illegal activity.
It helps explain why my internet connection has been so slow..I’m paying for high speed broadband....that is slower than a dial up.
Some of the emails from my friends using Comcast are terribly delayed by hours. I wasn’t sure if it was my service or theirs. This tells me it’s theirs.
Hi Jim, on Sunday the link to FR was so slow I though I had a virus on my computer.
Reboot your modem? I have dsl now but when I had Comcast sometimes a modem reboot would help
They hide behind common carrier status.
If they started inspecting the content their users are transporting, then they might become liable.
If they had any sense, they would be content to bill high-volume users a high-volume price, and rake in the dough.
Thanks I’ll give it a try.
def-— unplug it from electricity for 30-60 seconds then plug it (modem) back in
I’d say you’re right. It has been my experience that Comcast, as well as all other cable internet providers I have dealt with are chocked full of incompetent ‘techs’ and this just seems to be yet another ham-fisted attempt by incompetents to ‘experiment’ on their customers. I have seen more than one bring down entire network sectors only to learn that the person responsible was some $12/hr tech with unprecedented network security access. In my part of the world, businesses avoid cable internet like the plague.
I dumped Comcrap cable internet service and got Verizon FIOS. Happy ever since.
They need to leave bittorrent alone.
Funny, when I was visiting friends of mine in Carmel, Ca., they had Comcast and it was the fastest internet connection I’ve ever used.
I run speed tests all the time when I’m on line and they were getting 20,000 to 28,29,000kbps downstream and 1300 to 1500kbps upstream.
I’m paying Chartert extra in Texas to get 5,000 kbps down and usually get around 47-4800+ kbps down and 400+ upload.
Charter is pretty flaky and not all that reliable sometimes with lots of slowdowns or disconnections right in the middle of a trade.
Do not get me started about Charter.
Is DSL considered better for businesses where you are? No downtime?
Hmmmm....I think this happened here yesterday.....weird internet cable service during the day......Hmmmmm
Everyone knows they were throttling their newsgroup downloads for years. They finally went to a real newserver service, but when it was on their hardware, people "hit the download ceiling" all the time.
Business DSL has more downtime where I am than we had when we had with TWC RR Business Class. We still accept Credit Cards (or Debit Cards with Visa Logo) while the systems are down up to 8x our average purchase amount. It (TWCRR BC) was also a lot more though. TWC has started packet shifting as well. Gaming became unplayable at times online on my personal RR connection.
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