Comcast into the fires of hell

Right next this blog on my screen is an ad for a job: Director, Product Development for Online Media Services, Comcast Cable.

Interesting!

Chris

How is it possible that the cable monopoly persists? Make them open their pipes to competition, how ridiculous is this- who is getting paid?

Comcast is the worst internet provider I know of. Most of the time Ican't get on to check my email on Comcast but get right on the free AOL site. Weird. The best or worst part is that no one there knows why.

Funny. When I had problems accessing my excite email account through Comcast last year, the techie on the phone prepared to walk me through the problem. "Go to Explorer," he began. "Oh," I interrupted, I don't use Microsoft Explorer. I don't like Explorer. I'm a Netscape user." "Oh, sorry," he said. "We don't offer tech support on Netscape, only Explorer."

My ISP here in East Texas provides my service by wireless connection from a tower in the center of our small town. They are the only choice as our phone company (Verizon) doesn't offer DSL and our Cable company hasn't heard of the Internet :-(

When I tried to use Bittorrent my ISP completely shut down my connection until I called and complained. Since then I haven't dared try again!

I have Insight Cable Broadband here in IL. It just got bought out by ComCast. The takeover doesn't take effect til Jan 1. But my torrents for Anime Fansubs don't work. They used to run like wildfire on my Verizon DSL.

"Traffic shaping" sounds like a "freedom fence."

Seems Comcast doesn't understand that BT can be used for more than nefarious purposes. BT is one of the means of downloading OpenSUSE, for example. Perfectly legal -- from what I could tell when I tried it, very slow, but legal.

I defend a cable company's 'right' to slow you down when you have a huge download file, but not cut you off. Their technology has limitations that could slow the whole neighborhood during a big download.

Let them reduce your rate or insert pauses to be fair to other customers, but not break the flow entirely.

Use http://www.Mepis.org on this system, PC-BSD on a Compaq Presario 5000, Fedora 7 on 48 school systems I maintain, plus Centos8 on a couple servers. Many are behind http://ipcop.org firewall/routers. Yeah, have a few Macs, too.

Nothing that Bright House wants to "support"! I convert about one user per week to GNU/Linux, *BSD, or Mac, in homes, schools, and businesses, since 1997!

Some complain of throttling of their Bit torrent DLs of their school material for Private or home schooling.

We ticked the box to invoke file encryption.
That might prevent packet sniffing, and the ID of BT traffic.

Yes, this issue is beginning to affect schools, as 41 states have endorsed School Boards use of Open Source Operating Systems, with bit torrent, to get the lesson materials!

Time for the DOJ to step in! This throttling of BT is interfering with Interstate Trade, Privacy Rights, Religious Freedom!

"Traffic shaping" sounds like a "freedom fence."
Posted by: Earl

And it sounds like "killing for peace".
"We're cutting you off because you use the great bandwidth we advertise to sucker in customers"
Is that a great way to rip...er do business, or what? Monopolies are like that. Thanks, Judge Green for making our telopolies meaner and afraid of nothing! You didn't introduce competition, and you raised the price to boot.

It's hard not to be emotional when you first discover you've been betrayed for the bona fide confidence you exhibited by purchasing a service initially.

Truth is though, the contracts that you were forced to accept upon starting the service, usually spell out the deception, albeit carefully and in "legalese".

I like calling the various service desks and talking to the dummies about their contorted contracts actual meaning. For example, a recent foray into the mindless realm of Charter's ISP minions, found NO TECHNICAL DEFINITIONS available beyond the legally ambiguous term "acceptable use" regarding their rights to shut you down for excessive bandwidth.

The humor is that the corporations are seldom specific about actual service delivery, to wit the over advertised and carefully designed noncommittal references in the vein of "speeds upto xxx" (upto?) or "x times dialup" (what dialup and in which decade).

BUT, NO MATTER WHAT, the monthly bill is always unambiguous, bureaucratically tax laden and finally, can and will be used to ruin your credit rating and/or adjust your base credit card balance percentage, should you try paying anything upto but less than the total amount DUE to the almighty corporation.

tcapun,
Your first mistake is giving them your cedit card number and the second is to grant permission to automatiaclly bill you on it.
Seems like folks know there are many companies with monopolies out there and on the whole are pretty untrustworthy so why setup auto-pay accounts for them and give them even more leverage over you?
It don't make sense.

In order to get your BT traffic trough Comcast, you have to set up your BT client to use encrypted traffic and also change the port it works on to a non-common port, i.e. a higher number port (like 30000-something).

They're trying to limit the uploading, not downloading, as far as I know. But this method would help.