Comcast's New Plan: Send Heavy Users To The Back Of The Line
from the slow-down-there,-speedy dept
Comcast agreed last year to change the way it was dealing with supposedly "heavy" users, after it came out (following many denials from Comcast) that the company was using a rather heavy-handed manner to block certain services from working, without bothering to tell anyone. Now the company has said that it will be implementing a plan whereby heavy bandwidth users will be sent to a sort of "time out" room where all of their traffic will be slowed down for a period of 10 to 20 minutes. Consider it the flipside to Comcast's Powerboost offering, which was supposedly designed for the exact opposite purpose: to help heavy downloaders get more bandwidth when they needed it. Now, apparently that gets you punished.Meanwhile, over at the PFF conference, execs from Comcast (and Verizon) were apparently complaining that lobbyists were shaping the net neutrality debate, leaving out the part where it was their own lobbyists who really kicked that process off. Update: Oh, and as was widely expected, despite the FCC voting against Comcast, the company will not be fined or anything.
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Filed Under: bandwidth hogs, lobbyists, net neutrality, power boost, slow speed, traffic shaping
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My 2 Cents
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http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=178850
http://www.u niversalhub.com/node/9049
Its Comcraptastic!
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Oh yeah, that's right, its a monopoly, no other options.
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Actually, I believe I might be able to get DSL from Useless West -- excuse me, "Qwest" -- now, but I'd rather do business with Comcast than Qwest.
Fiber? Oh, how I love to dream.
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There are a lot of good collocation companies that offer Qwest DSL. If something goes wrong, it's easy to troubleshoot: (DSL light off = Qwest Problem. Anything else = call that English-Speaking ISP guy across town.) I knew they put that DSL light on there for some reason.
http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/isp_list.html
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FIOS
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When bandwidth is scarce, THROTTLE EVERYONE. When bandwidth is not scarce, let everyone go wild. It's a simple method used in networks everywhere. If only 10% of bandwidth is being used for a few hours, then who cares how much a handful of people are using? But when that bandwidth is consumed by a lot of users during high traffic, just throttle people back a little to keep things flowing.
No reason to single out a particular type of user or to single anyone out for unnecessary traffic shaping outside of high traffic moments.
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Company Growth
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our Adelphia (who we were happy with) sold out to them and Comcrap is what we are left with or dial-up since our "phone lines are not good enough for DSL":{
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COMCAST: Liars
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All on how it's implemented
The only thing worse than getting your bandwidth throttled is being lagged to death in a video game because an ISP can't handle the load. they should be actively looking/implementing new upgrade paths.
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I hated comcast anyway
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They are already doing this to me!
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well...
The 'competitors' offer substantially less(385kbit upstream dsl) unless I pay for a business connection, which on my budget is out of the question.
so I'm stuck between caps I can't see, or a bottleneck where I would have to dramatically change my current habits.
Waiting for a DOCSIS 3 upgrade (which will probably be just as oversubscribed so it won't help at all) or Verizon to move in, until then I have nowhere to go so they can screw me as hard as they like and I can go nowhere...
I just don't download massive amounts of content right now so i haven't been able to test these caps (or maybe I have...what is the limit now 4.783 mebabytes?)
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Bandwidth
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Well
check it out
then check this out.
infowars.com
Wake up.
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It's Comcraptic!
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I'm Comcraptic!
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That story was something else?
Heres one part that made me chuckle a little;
"Before the announcement, Comcast had responded to network congestion caused by BitTorrent users. . . "
Well it seems the reporter has concluded that it was in fact Bit Torrent users that were causing all the congestion. Nevermind that there is no actual proof of ANY congestion, much less that the congestion (which hasnt been proven) is caused by users of one specific protocol (which is just rediculous). The article is loaded with that kind of pro-comcast propoganda, frankly its so obvious it reads more like a press release, then a news story. This is certainly one "journalist" that should have no credibility in the tech world.
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