Hooray for Comcast!
Make money! Make Money! Make Money! Hooray!
The provider of the fat data stream should pay the price, it makes sense, just as any shipper pays the freight carried over a common carrier — not the recipient. That is, some freight carriers do bill COD, including freight charges, but most find that not-profitable. COD delivery is rare these days. And NO BUSINESS ships $3 items COD. That’s stupid.
I’m a customer of a different data carrier, but I don’t do netflix over the web. I think I’ve done one or two on-demand FIOS movies when I was recuperating from major surgery at home. Why should I have to pay for the “feed me” lazy habits that demand constant fat data feeds into the homes of bums? Even if they ain’t bums, why should my service be degraded?
Why not just charge customers for the bandwidth they use?
This isn’t rocket science.
Look yourself in the mirror, hard, and reform your ways.
If the Post Office has been dropping other people's internet access bills into your mail, you ought to complain to the Post Office. At the very least, you should stop paying them yourself (as you evidently have been doing until now, inasmuch as you have just started to complain about the unfairness of it).
Even if they ain’t bums, why should my service be degraded?
If your internet service is degraded, you might want to complain to your internet service provider.
What someone else does with their own internet connection is none of your concern.
I don’t believe you have a CATV modem, or you don’t understand what you’re talking about, since only Verizon offers FIOS right now and I know for a fact that you can’t lag FIOS without using up some serious server space.
Long story short, while I agree with you that Comcast should be able to do and charge whatever they want with their network, I would also suggest that you need to educate yourself on how broadband actually works before making yourself look foolish again.
Just for the record, I was one of the first FIOS engineers that Verizon assigned to the Virginia build and was involved in the project from 2005 until June of this year, so I do know a bit about this subject.
I agree with you. Let Comcast ream out Netflix and Netflix can in turn increase charges for its movie streamers. Leave me out of this. Don’t jack up my cable rates to pay for the dumbass streamers who make streaming a way of life. And with Netflix charging $8/month for unlimited streaming there will be millions of dumbass streamers.
Netflix Amazon and others use and abuse of the Comcast (and other ISPs) pipes has only just begun