Comments on: Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality

By: Meestermole

Meestermole — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:58:03 +0000

Pay more for less!!! Notice how if you get the "Triple play package" the price is fine for a year then it makes a HUGE jump – so you bundle and save (??right??) then when your bills have gone from 100 a month to 180 a month and you try to cancel, they tell you , if you drop your phone service, the cable service price goes up and the internet speed drops… you need to bundle to get the savings. So let me get this right – if i want LESS service, i pay MORE??? But if i WANT more service, faster downloads that they advertise I can be penalized for USING iT??? WHAT THE HECK?!?
Why not block FTP traffic too, and while we're at it, lets scale back attacment sizes to only what could fit on a floppy disc. We wouldnt want people sending movie clips over email attachments now…

By: Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net Neutrality | baby-parts - science news,breaking news and digitas news

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:20:33 +0000

[...] Thanks: [WSJ via TorrentFreak] [...]

By: Yes

Yes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:47:02 +0000

These numbers added concurrent

By: Yes

Yes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:35:45 +0000

I started my download 3hr 50min ago and it was going to take 7hrs. Now it is probably going to take 7hrs 10mins. In 7hrs I wonder if it will take 8.

By: Yes

Yes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:30:15 +0000

They suck big

By: Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 at IDTorrent Blog

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 at IDTorrent Blog — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:12:52 +0000

[...] being pressured by the press and thousands of upset customers, Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers, (somewhere in the future) and promised to invest [...]

By: Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 at IDTorrent Blog

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 at IDTorrent Blog — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:12:52 +0000

[...] being pressured by the press and thousands of upset customers, Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers, (somewhere in the future) and promised to invest [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:13:15 +0000

I guess their going to slow down my internet connection. I download A LOT.

By: Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 | TorrentFreak

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 | TorrentFreak — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:19:48 +0000

[...] being pressured by the press and thousands of upset customers, Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers, (somewhere in the future) and promised to invest [...]

By: josef

josef — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:29:48 +0000

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By: opassande » Blog Archive » NÃ¤tet — dÃ¤r lite allt mÃ¶jligt kan dÃ¶lja sig

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:11:34 +0000

[...] nÃ¤tneutralitet innebÃ¤r att internetoperatÃ¶rer inte stryper hastigheten fÃ¶r viss utvald trafik. Comcast i USA, till exempel, stryper bittorrent-trafik, och anvÃ¤nds som ett varnande exempel fÃ¶r hur det inte [...]

By: BitTorrent Inc. + Comcast = Love, Peace, Harmonyâ€¦Not! at IDTorrent Blog

BitTorrent Inc. + Comcast = Love, Peace, Harmonyâ€¦Not! at IDTorrent Blog — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:22:23 +0000

[...] the Comcast garden is rosy these days, with previous arch-rival BitTorrent now working things out together over afternoon tea. However, not everyone is [...]

By: rastafarian

rastafarian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:51:21 +0000

[quote comment="320384"]to me anyone that gets a contract thru COMCAST must be just as new to the internet, as a n00b is to torrents thinking that a movie (ex.10000 BC) is 3MB big (virus anyone?)my ISP promised me UP TO 6MB with no contract and ya know what i get ? THE FULL 6MB and then sometimes even 7MB
ALIANT RULEZ!!
COMCAST, GO FUCK YOUR HELMET!!!!!

but thats just my take on things………[/quote]
you must be new to the internet also u noob.. dont u know that for the most of the time you dont have any other option.. ther is usually 2 providers for an area: cable and dsl, in my case its comcast or verizon and both suk, but i chose comcast because its faster anyway even if they throttle ur tcp..
do u actually think if i had aliant as an option i wouldnt want to have it..? u moron

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:51:02 +0000

By: Comcast Pulls an About Face, Teams Up with BitTorrent for Net Neutrality | Submiter - science news,breaking news and digitas news

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:39:58 +0000

[...] —-end—- Thanks: [WSJ via TorrentFreak] [...]

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » BitTorrent Inc. + Comcast = Love, Peace, Harmonyâ€¦Not!

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:04:25 +0000

[...] the Comcast garden is rosy these days, with previous arch-rival BitTorrent now working things out together over afternoon tea. However, not everyone is [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:56:26 +0000

lmao @ 29. the only advantage to being small; i never feel cramped on ryanair.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:21:45 +0000

I used to work for comcast, I know how shit works, in my area there is no contracts, but read the fine print “down load speed up to 8MB” it doesn’t state 8mb min, oh shit son, lol. and they’ve always had caps on the heavy uses. some guy had a shit load of DL and UL, they disconnected him because “the customer used up to much bandwidth” fuck the cap, there are to many people who do massive DL, and can someone define “heavy users” and “who actually use the bandwidth that was promised to them in their contracts” uh it’s called good business ethics, maybe if I payed for it I should get it, new concept for comcast I guess.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:15:01 +0000

@ #12: My ISP offers me exactly what i pay for, but hey, i’m from Holland.

By: Puck

Puck — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:29 +0000

Does Comcast guarantee bandwidth… no. There sales pitch is “up to x times faster…” Does DSL guarantee bandwidth… yes. So, Comcast is uncapped and susceptible to traffic problems, DSL is not. But which is generally faster for the buck… Comcast. Traffic shaping is nothing new and many industries do it, it’s the issue of discrimination that the FCC addressed. This is a win!
Next on the agenda, break up the monopoly and the issue is over.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:33:11 +0000

Good thing I live outside of the US,haha.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:38:34 +0000

I just want FIBER!!!!

Where I live its either Comcast or DSL. Fiber is being run currently and I am just waiting for it to go live. Once it does GAME OVER for Comcast!!

By: hell

hell — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:35:55 +0000

DEATH to NIGGERS!!!

By: jahn

jahn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50:16 +0000

These rock!
http://pluking.blogspot.com

By: lols

lols — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:29:56 +0000

I have been using comcast forever, no alternatives, great download speeds, SHIT upload. This is good news…

I want to be able to seed!

And yes I am a bandwidthwhore, i’ve exceeded my limit a few times :’( not really sure what limits i broke, but hey they said i broke them, i guess its finally up to them to fix them!

By: opassande » Blog Archive » Det farliga bittorrent

opassande » Blog Archive » Det farliga bittorrent — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:52:33 +0000

[...] amerikanska internetbolaget Comcast har under flera Ã¥rs tid misstÃ¤nkts fÃ¶r att strypa hastigheter nÃ¤r man identifierat trafiken vara via bittorent. De har [...]

By: Zoness

Zoness — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:09:55 +0000

Yeah I don’t trust it at all but then again I have not been nearly as aggressively throttled but I am not always a top bandwidth throttler.

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:05:29 +0000

We at Microsoft will never compromise with this disorganized crime crap spread through the torrent mess! You criminals, con men, iTards, LuTards, pedophiles, and torrent users make me ill!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Smoop

Smoop — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:30:39 +0000

Fugg off with your Ron Paul shizz. Loser.

By: Smoop

Smoop — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:29:52 +0000

Crazy white people!

By: Instant awe of iceland

Instant awe of iceland — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:33:45 +0000

[quote comment="320366"][quote comment="320084"]
GO RON PAUL !!!

GO RON PAUL !!!

GO RON PAUL !!![/quote]

um didnt he drop out like last month?[/quote]
Dude! Not cool! No he did not!
Check the guy out (esp. on google and youtube); he has a HELL of a message, and the money shoot him down all the time, censoring him and spreading mis-info like that;

a lot a lot of people consider this upcoming election fixed, with the candidates differences merely smoke screens, but not Ron Paul.

PLEASE, seriously, this is cool; check him out!! Google him!! YouTube him!! He is still on the ballot and won’t leave until the PEOPLE tell him to with their votes, NOT the media tell him to with their blackout of him!!!!

And yeah, this comcast/neutrality thing seems like an oxymoron; their greedy bastards. Now in a more free-capitalist system that would be cool; they’d lose customers, drop their allegiance to the dinosaur mafIAA, and get customers back (money money money!);
but ya’ll live in an oppressive state, son! They would rather have control than money, and they could probably (have – will – are!) get away with whatever they want.

I don’t see this concession as anything more than a smokescreen; they’re still gonna try to stop Torrent, just try another approach.

By: just another voice

just another voice — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:29:21 +0000

[quote comment="320591"]WHEN is comcast going to stop the BS as they’ve promised? I just switched from AT&T and I’m used to rock solid upload speeds. I generally have had utorrent running 24/7 for the past two and a half years but now that my aunt has switched to the cumcast ‘triple play’ i often get “no incoming connections” (red triangle) unless i download a torrent and while “just seeding” the upload line on the speed graph looks like a roller coaster track.

this is going to kill my 1.81 ratio, guess no more private trackers for me. I might have to start beating my neighbor for their wifi at night so i can upload. they still have dsl. ;P[/quote]

there’s a simple solution: http://www.relakks.com – cost only 5 euros/month and works like a charm! :D

By: Cumcast Sucker

Cumcast Sucker — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:56:29 +0000

WHEN is comcast going to stop the BS as they’ve promised? I just switched from AT&T and I’m used to rock solid upload speeds. I generally have had utorrent running 24/7 for the past two and a half years but now that my aunt has switched to the cumcast ‘triple play’ i often get “no incoming connections” (red triangle) unless i download a torrent and while “just seeding” the upload line on the speed graph looks like a roller coaster track.

this is going to kill my 1.81 ratio, guess no more private trackers for me. I might have to start beating my neighbor for their wifi at night so i can upload. they still have dsl. ;P

By: UraPhake

UraPhake — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:59:49 +0000

In related news, Microsoft and Linus Torvalds announce an alliance in which the two will work together on a completely open-source and free version of Windows Vista.

It will have all the same features and will be free to download and modify under the GNU GPL.

Bill Gates said, “We want to work to improve the OS experience for our customers, and if it means discarding our old business model, then so be it. Open source is ‘where it’s at’ nowadays and we (Microsoft) are hip to the advantages that the Linux kernal has to offer.”

Steve Balmer is now embarking upon a nation-wide tour to tout the new, “Penguin-Powered” Vista OS.

Torvalds’ only comment was a succinct, “Fnork?”

By: Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality | Sbytes

Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality | Sbytes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:14:28 +0000

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By: Comcast Partners with BitTorrent Inc., Lifting Throttles

Comcast Partners with BitTorrent Inc., Lifting Throttles — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:59:27 +0000

[...] criticized for slowing down BitTorrent traffic by means of packet shaping. Recently, they agreed to lift throttles placed on all users who download Torrents and only limit access to users who consume the most [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:50:03 +0000

“Imagine that 300 passengers show up regularly to fly with an airplane with 250 seats.”

That’s called RyanAir. If there are really 300 passengers, 50 of them must be terrorist because the plane would crash if they all boarded it. So there cannot ever be more than 250 passengers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:53:58 +0000

Imagine that 300 passengers show up regularly to fly with an airplane with 250 seats. That kind of overselling wouldn’t stand for long.

By: n3l87

n3l87 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:38:45 +0000

This is a bittersweet win for Comcast users.

On one hand, they’ll be able to share, on the other, it’s for a limited time until they start throttling again, but on a more open scale.

Well, at least the FCC is aware of this type of thing now, so they can be mindful.

By: Mr Roboto

Mr Roboto — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:31:39 +0000

“BitTorrent Inc. will work together on finding customer friendly solutions for the congestion ALLEGEDLY caused by BitTorrent traffic”.
Are you kidding me with that statement? Look bittorrent is great. I love it but it is an absolute bandwidth hog. More than streaming video sites ,more than even Direct download. Even when I’m downloading at 100-200Kb/s it slows down my entire 10Mbit/s line and is noticeable on every computer in the house.

By: 7SÃ¨VÃ©N7

to me anyone that gets a contract thru COMCAST must be just as new to the internet, as a n00b is to torrents thinking that a movie (ex.10000 BC) is 3MB big (virus anyone?)my ISP promised me UP TO 6MB with no contract and ya know what i get ? THE FULL 6MB and then sometimes even 7MB
ALIANT RULEZ!!
COMCAST, GO FUCK YOUR HELMET!!!!!

but thats just my take on things………

By: great googley moogley

great googley moogley — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:27 +0000

[quote comment="320084"]
GO RON PAUL !!!

GO RON PAUL !!!

GO RON PAUL !!![/quote]

um didnt he drop out like last month?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:57:54 +0000

yeah fuckin right they are still limiting bandwidth usage still fuck comcast

By: Dimagus

Dimagus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:57:15 +0000

“Comcast hoped it could quietly interfere with marathon runners by slowing them to a 3mph walking pace in a single file line without getting too much attention.”

Fixed, and yes, the drugs were rampant.

By: prodigydancer

prodigydancer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:14:38 +0000

“Comcast hoped it could quietly interfere with its customer’s BitTorrent activities without getting too much attention.”

Those guys were seriously on crack, weren’t they? ;-)

By: Wwwildthing

Wwwildthing — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:12:45 +0000

I just ran a 12GB torrent thru Azureus with the new ‘Network Status Monitor’ plugin and the average RST ratio was 87%.

Who’s your daddy now (comcast)?

By: mu57i11

mu57i11 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:37:22 +0000

they didn’t see the light, they thought of the fcc hearing.

By: fucking idiots

fucking idiots — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:46 +0000

sounds like a good move comcast.

wtf were you smoking when you came up with the original plan?? fucking corporate execs out of tune with the digital world/news sharing concept.

By: man

man — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:14 +0000

april fools!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:32:18 +0000

They charge for an unlimited service yet they limit you if you download too much.

FUCK YOU COMCAST. I’M WITH QWEST AND THEY ARE FAST AS HELL!

Comcast should have realized in their marketing strategy that if you offer an unlimited service IT BETTER DAMN WELL BE UNLIMITED!