Posted on 10/19/2007 8:15:40 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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Is Verizon’s FIOS fiber optic system a way to avoid the kind of bandwidth-throttling Comcast has implemented?
Identifying a physical location, user, port is MUCH easier that attempting to block specific copyrighted or content and let other things pass. DOD may know where certain users are, but there’s simply no way to monitor all transmission between us. And they wouldn’t want to, they’d never find anything in all the noise.
Good to hear your success. I have a coworker (very technical guy in R&D with me) who had poor performance over DSL in his home. He went from Mediacom to DSL then back again after the bandwidth issues. He only lives about 2 miles from me so I’m a bit concerned with how my connection would be with DSL.
So far Mediacom has been great other than a month or two here and there where they drop service for an hour or two randomly.
Downloading from newsgroups FLYS in. But I have noticed during the 5pm to 7pm time frame it will drop back to about 1/2 of normal speed. Still fast though.
They haven’t tee’d me off yet so I’m sticking with them for now.
> They sell Comcast business class service to those
> who want to do lots of upstream traffic. Though, I
> dont think theyll put it in at a residence either,
> and they probably still restrict P2P from there as well.
I’ve got Comcast business at home so I can host my web site and some ATC audio streams. They will let you do it from a residence, but it’s a lot more $$$ a month.
Ah, OK.
There are several honest solutions: build out the network to handle the load, charge more for high-volume use, etc. But of course Comcast wont do any of them. ISPs have been advertising high bandwidth for years, and now they're panicking because customers are -- OMG! -- actually using the advertised bandwidth, and their networks can't handle it.
2. Agree.
3. It's not their position to filter the content you upload. They already put a cap on the speed, should be end of story. You use up to that speed and nothing more. But apparently they want to cut the bandwidth of some transmissions to zero, far below the upload bandwidth you paid for.
4. My cable is pretty good, too.
5. It isn't a shill -- it's a warning. It shows the power of the few big ISPs and how they can damage the Internet.
Then they have no right to expect guaranteed amount of funds in payment each month. They'll have to be satisfied with "best effort", otherwise the contract is inequitable.
...requiring the ISP to actually provide the service stipulated in its contract without sabotage.
Fixed it for you.
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