I agree, this is all about the sweetheart deal. One of us one day is going to find a way to cost Comcast whatever they were going to gain.

filthy demonstration of how not to operate a business

I’d love to switch… Comcast seems to be our only high-speed option. Yes, a few blocks down, there is DSL. :\

They will download and let it running in backround as a service.

App will generate random and unreasonable TCP and UDP traffic from many Comcast users some of the Comcast server connected to internet.

They can simply fill Comcasts pipes from inside traffic and Comcast can do almost nothing, but look how its small bandwidth is wasted. They will not be able to determine which traffic they can allow and which to block.

You can propably leggaly run such a app (just a packet gen) in background and complaining to your provider that he is blocking your internet access and therefore you want to cancel your agreement :)

In the end, stoping using Comcast services is really the only simple way out….

So they’re trying to cheat even now? No wonder they cheat on their customers then. This company is really, really disgusting. I hope they’re out of business soon.

By Mark Jewell
AP Business Writer / February 26, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged hiring people to fill seats before the start of a contentious federal hearing on how the company manages its broadband network, allowing its employees to take those seats when the filled-to-capacity hearing started.

Many people were turned away before Monday’s Federal Communications Commission hearing at Harvard Law School, leading critics to accuse Comcast of stifling debate over the company’s practice of favoring some forms of Internet traffic over others.

Full article here: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/02/26/allegations_fly_in_fcc_hearing_aftermath/

Comcast hired people off the street to fill up seats at it’s hearing so the interested members of the public can’t attend.

The Associated Press said the satellite would offer speeds of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second.

The service initially would focus on the Asia-Pacific region close to Japan, a JAXA news release said.

funny thing is i have comcast, they just upped the upload to 3Mb/s without annoucing it here,and i’ve never had the problem with the throttling. maybe they thought if they did it everywhere else except where the government is that they wouldn’t be noticed. bunch of fucktards if you ask me.

i’m just glad ppl that r sharing don’t think of where internet trafic around here gets routed before going out. we have the NSA, CIA, NRO, FBI, Pentagon, DEA and ATF, NASA all in a 25 mile zone, and if you do some checking it usually hits at least 1 of them. There’s alot of shady shit in this area, if you lived here, like i do, u’d see it. the NRO has been spying on communications in this area for at least the least 12 years, i know cuz i have a family worker who works there. you should see the shit they do, it’s scary, sad and pitiful all at once.

> Even good old phone lines are “overbooked”.

Do you seriously think, that I give a fuck about that? :-) Why should I? Mind you, when I won’t be able to use the phone line I pay for, someone responsible for that is definitely going to receive a big solid object up his ass.

> Unlimited means no artificially applied limits throttling.

Oh please, don’t waste space in comments to repeat some bla-bla-bla you’ve heard from shitty ISPs who failed miserably. For me unlimited means I can use 100% of bandwidth 24/7. End of story. And when I won’t be able to do exactly this… well, I believe you’ve got the idea. :-)

> They couldn’t provide such a guarantee with a single 1 Gbps uplink and 1000 customers either.

More like fucking bastards don’t want to. They want to cheat people of their hard earned money and get away with that. Not gonna happen.

> 1 Gbps is exactly 1000 Mbit/s that is a billion

Go back to school yourself, you dumb ignorant prick. :-)

P.S. But you’ve made my day, so thank for a good laugh. I admire clowns like you. :-) Especially when you entertain for free.

Wildblue has oversold their service way beyond what it’s capable of handling. They recently launched a 2nd satellite but their traffic shaping is already implemented on it. What was once an outstanding unbelievably awesome real high speed internet connection for people in the country has just become a service for browsing the web(slowly), checking email, and downloading files.

They have a FAP of 18gb download and 6gb upload traffic per rolling 30days. This is fine for anybody so long as they don’t do torrents.

Anyway, the only thing I can see as a fix for this situation to make everyone happy is to simply offer different packages/plans. If you only need internet for simple browsing, email, shopping, and occasional updates you DO NOT need a 5mb connection. Hell 512/128 would be sufficient for them.

Then you have power users. There are many levels of power users who do everything and anything they possibly can with their connections. These people download movies, games, apps, music, and games. These people deserve the 5mb or so connections. Then there is the absolute top power hungry users with their 10mb+ connections. These I would think would be more reserved for businesses that may do VOIP, Remoting assistance, etc. An individual with top tier plans are usually up to no good anyway if they “need” that much bandwidth. These sorts are usually people downloading/uploading movies, games, apps, and possibly hacking(botnet). I’m not accusing anyone with a big pipe of hacking, I’m just saying you really don’t “need” that much bandwidth unless you are pushing some seriously big or a lot of files to and from other people.

Personally I wouldn’t mind paying more for a real “free unlimited” plan so I can game at least. Until then Dial-up is still unlimited :P haha

Also you should get back to school because 1 Gbps is exactly 1000 Mbit/s that is a billion (American billion) bits per second. This 1024 bullshit applies to memory chips and absolutely nothing else. Only crooks and sociopathic assembly victims are going to claim something else. They are going to extinct eventually.

I fully agree.

There’s nothing magical about bandwidth. Let’s say (for simplicity’s sake) that some ISP has 1Gbps total uplink. Then this company can honestly sell 1024 of 1Mbps DSL connections with unlimited traffic. The very moment they sell 1025-th one, they are cheating on their clients and must be ready to face the consequences, including class action lawsuits.

This isn’t rocket science. This is elementary school math.

CPU and other hardware component companies have been doing that for years successfully. One can view ISP as just another part of PC.

You pay for the part, you add it to your rig and you use it as much and as long as you want at max speeds if needed.

Bullshit. When I connect to an ISP, my PC (while technically a part of the ISP’s network) is still my private property. Same goes for another peer, who I communicate with. By sending either of us RST the ISP disrupts our communications and thus directly affects functionality of software on our systems (which don’t belong to ISP in any manner).

This is hacking. By definition.

ISPs can do anything they wants with their routers or servers. They can send false packets from of *their own* hosts to another. They can even burn all their hardware, who cares. But my PC doesn’t belong to them even when I’m online. And my traffic (which I pay my money for) is mine. “Shaping” it is a crime.

They don’t have neither legal nor moral right to do this.

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4tinglez, go back to your FOXNEWS you brain-less monkey. “Breaking into systems” is called intrusion. Hacking is a very fuzzy term and does not describe any specific technique, it is not even reserved to computer-related skills and has certainly nothing to do with illegality itself. Go and get some education before you try to teach others, you piece of shit.