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MERCMAN
10-19-2007, 11:17 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination

Bye-Bye file-sharing.
KillJoy
10-19-2007, 11:23 AM
WOW!!!

I can't believe anyone would want to work for a company that does that!

:rofl:

:D

KillJoy
RCSignals
10-19-2007, 12:53 PM
it's all about money
OneBADLsE
10-19-2007, 12:56 PM
pretty homo if you ask me
RF Overlord
10-19-2007, 03:47 PM
Comcast only does this to the extremely small number of residential subscribers who are using an enormously disproportionate amount of bandwidth so that the remaining vast majority of its residential subscribers will get the advertised and expected speed and throughput.

Anyone needing that much bandwidth should subscribe to and pay for a commercial-grade service, not a residential service.
Raudermaster
10-21-2007, 09:19 PM
Scamcast always has sucked. I'm telling you guys....FiOS is the ELITE!
MM03MOK
10-21-2007, 09:26 PM
Scamcast always has sucked. I'm telling you guys....FiOS is the ELITE!
True QAM! :rolleyes:
RCSignals
10-21-2007, 10:21 PM
Fios is Scottish Gaelic for NEWS
Raudermaster
10-22-2007, 04:38 AM
Well, in America FiOS stands for the fastest internet, PERIOD! Not to mention the clearest television you can ever imagine.
silver_2000
10-23-2007, 07:17 AM
Comcast only does this to the extremely small number of residential subscribers who are using an enormously disproportionate amount of bandwidth so that the remaining vast majority of its residential subscribers will get the advertised and expected speed and throughput.

Anyone needing that much bandwidth should subscribe to and pay for a commercial-grade service, not a residential service.

While I strongly disagree with anything that gets in the way of net neutrality. Since over 60% of the traffic on many networks is now peer to peer file sharing, I agree that traffic shaping is required. In other words keeping the hogs that are using peer to peer to steal movies from slowing down the whole network so that I cant check my email ...


Up to 60 percent of bandwidth is used by peer-to-peer networks on some ISPs, according to Steve Bannerman, vice president of marketing product management at Narus, a supplier of network intelligence software to ISPs, including AT&T, but not Comcast.
"U.S. ISPs are not preventing anybody from getting to the applications, but they are preventing some users of P2P services from hogging all the bandwidth and slowing down the experience for other users," Bannerman added.


When it gets sticky is when similar technology is used to slow down access to sites that DONT pay comcast for expedited service - thats Net Neutrality

PS - Fios Rocks