Comcast Will Fire Employees For Admitting That Comcast Uses Sandvine?
from the what-are-you-hiding? dept
We still can't figure out why Comcast doesn't just come right out and admit what it's doing in jamming certain kinds of traffic. It's not like it's a secret any more -- and the longer Comcast tries to play dumb on this, the worse it looks for the company. The oddest part, though, is that Comcast won't even admit that it's using Sandvine's traffic shaping equipment -- even though Sandvine clearly lists Comcast as a customer and has used them as a reference customer in news articles. Even worse, though is that Comcast has apparently now issued a bunch of ridiculous talking points to customer service reps about this issue. Apparently, the customer service folks are being told that if they deviate from the script, they risk getting terminated. The script even includes how to respond to a point blank question about Sandvine, refusing to admit what appears to be public knowledge at this point. It's not at all clear what Comcast thinks it gains in acting this way. It seems to have only made an awful lot of customers quite angry at the company. Lucky for Comcast, though, that the US broadband market is such a disaster many customers have nowhere else to go.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Whoa is me...
If only we had some sort of free market where natural competition would take care of the consumer. Instead, all I've done so far is write them some emails and hoping that enough of them come in that they'll at least acknowledge this.
BTW - if anyone has any other options for another ISP I'm all ears, I'd cancel the whole thing except I work from home quite a bit.
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The speed is acceptable, as is the pricing for the service.
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As is standard with other Internet Service Providers, WildBlue ensures that its service operates at optimum speeds for all of its customers. Since WildBlue is a shared network, we have a Fair Access Policy to ensure that extraordinary usage by a few customers doesn't negatively affect the normal usage of other customers. For the vast majority of users, the Fair Access Policy has no effect on their usage. For a few very heavy bandwidth users, the system may restrict their bandwidth and therefore their speed. See WildBlue's Fair Access Policy.
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You probably won't like this but... what about DIAL-UP? Without knowing where "your neck of the woods" is it would be hard to suggest viable options.
If you are having this dilemma, then your neighbors probably are too. Couldn't you guys pitch in for a T1 or satellite internet service? Then you guys could manage your own network.
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You don't have to have line of sight for wireless like Verizon or Sprint or T-Mobile wireless networking. You may want to look that way again (technologies are always improving.)
Hope this helps!
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Yep, that is normal
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Follow the money
My guess is money. A contract was agreed, some money has changed hands, Comcast are under contract to block p2p so have to continue regardless.
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Or they may just revert to raving madmen and blame the president.
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There's not a spit's worth of difference
between the two major political parties
or their administrations. If either of
them cared half as much about the country
as they do for their party we'd be much
better off.
Back on topic... Hey, how about the billions
of dollars in federal funds spent to improve
internet connectivity in rural areas? My,
that worked out well.
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Cable issues linked back to the Bush White House -- You loons are wild. And suggesting that the President should be executed is a real crime. You should watch what you say Neal.
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p2p or hollywood... tough choice for comcast
however, their core business is cable, meaning they need content deals from hollywood.
hollywood hates p2p, so comcast must hate p2p as well lest it lose out on sweet content deals from hollywood.
so, comcast has to decide between p2p and internet access sales, or hollywood and content deals. i'll bet they make more from cable TV, hence the blocking of P2P.
they won't admit it because p2p is the reason that half of their internet service customers are signed up in the first place.
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Wow just wow...
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wildblue Over thousands of posts on how bad it sucks..
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Fios
Whether someone uses BT for legal or illegal purposes is up to them- Comcast shouldn't have to block it. And if they are forced to due to some agreement with Hollywood, they should state so. Paying 50 dollars a month only to find out after the fact that you're getting crippled services is unacceptable. God help me if Fios follows suit....
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Yup - I dropped Cox Communications last month in favor of Verizon FiOS. See my post here: http://blog.chronofish.com/?p=91
-CF
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I get the feeling even working for Comcast (CSR - Bay Area, CA) that they don't really care about the service they provide just as long as people just bend over and take it in the arse. IMHO, I feel violated with this policy. No ISP should have the right to comb through my traffic and decide what should be delivered or what should be rejected or delayed. Imagine what it would be like if the US Postal Service started reading the return addresses on my mail and determining which mail I should be receiving and what I should not. I would boycott Comcast for this but unfortunately in my city at&t hasn't done a U-Verse rollout and their DSL sucks. And I say this despite getting the 8.0 Mbps account for $10/month as an employee.
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execution
That suggestion implies two things in his case, he is removed from office for his crimes - meaning he would no longer be president, and that he is tried and convicted of the crimes he's committed against this country. There is nothing criminal, nothing illegal, about my suggestion.
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If you were hired today as a consultant for Comcast PR and Corporate Communications, what would you do?
I'm holding this survey over at: http://jburg.typepad.com/future/2007/10/open-survey---i.html.
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Nuts to Comcast
Also, Bush/Cheney 2008 - why obey the laws now!
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