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- sockpuppets, on 07/10/2008, -9/+75Nonsense, I'm on comcast and I've experienced nothing but fast connections and uniterru
- staxofmax, on 07/10/2008, -4/+56Really? I heard that Comcast is slowing down connection speeds because if too much information flows through the internets too quickly, the tubes could catch on fire and explode.
See? I can make ***** up too. - umbrellainabin, on 07/11/2008, -8/+50***** THE RIAA
***** THE MPAA
***** THE IFPI
***** THE BFI
***** VIACOM
***** COMCAST
***** MEDIADEFENDER
***** AT&T - AntBing, on 07/11/2008, -1/+20I'm pretty sure they don't give a ***** about Digg.
- inactive, on 07/10/2008, -17/+35Comcast is following orders to slow down connection speeds so that the NSA can intercept any suspect correspondence that can condemn American citizens under the Patriot Act.
- andywu92, on 07/11/2008, -4/+22What Comcast Doesn't Want: a front-page Digg article revealing its plans
- sporg, on 07/11/2008, -2/+19Comtrash and the rest of the robber barons try to do whatever they please as usual. Don't believe any of their claims about them needing to charge consumers for how much bandwidth they use because "ohhh the load is too much!". Any claims that the internet is operating anywhere near capacity are pure fantasy.
"Summary:The global telecommunications and networking backbone contains millions of kilometers of fiber-optic cabling, but we use only one ten-thousandth of the potential bandwidth of those cables. One reason is that a single converter from electrical to optical signals can only make use of a small amount of the optical spectrum, limiting the achievable bandwidth to about 2.5 Gbit/s. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) helps to resolve this disparity. WDM takes advantage of the fact that multiple wavelengths (or frequencies) of IR light can be transmitted simultaneously down a single optical fiber, and each of those frequency channels can carry independent information. With the use of WDM, the capacity of a single strand of fiber, 250 microns in diameter, can carry between 10 and 80 Gbps; a typical cable of 18 mm in diameter contains up to 200 fibers"
"The concept was first published in 1970, and by 1978 WDM systems were being realized in the laboratory. The first WDM systems only combined two signals. Modern systems can handle up to 160 signals and can thus expand a basic 10 Gbit/s fiber system to a theoretical total capacity of over 1.6 Tbit/s over a single fiber pair."
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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/i ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_m ...
http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mukherje/book/ch01 ... - Hangly, on 07/11/2008, -2/+18I think people aren't reading your comment all the way to the end, sockpuppets.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -6/+21ahh i can see it now - drudge, cnn, msnbc, foxnews, mtv, moron.com, all part of basic internet package. want digg and other non neocon sites? extra $20 a month.
- phydeaux70, on 07/11/2008, -1/+15These companies are monopolies.
When you move to an area and you have one choice for broadband...monopoly. One choice for DSL monopoly. This is exactly why satellites have done so well, because people now have another choice for Hi-Def or cable.
The government should allow the infrastructure to be used by any company and then let the consumers choose who is the best. Of course...that also comes with other problems too. But the reason that Comcast is so big isn't because they are so great to their customers, it's because they are the dominant figure in big cities and have a captive audience. Condos, rentals, apartments etc, might not allow the installation of a dish, and in many cases there just isn't a choice for high-speed internet. Fish in a barrel. - stealthc, on 07/11/2008, -1/+15The NSA already has spying technology installed on all major Internet backbones. This is not a secret, OR made up.
I'm not sure it's actually affecting network performance though. - jcwuerfl, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10What comcast wants? how about what the customer wants? The customer always comes first right ??
- pr0gr4mm3r, on 07/11/2008, -1/+11If they thought Digg was a problem...I wouldn't be able to read this page right now.
- Slade605, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10I heard that Comcast puts it's pants on in the morning one leg at a time and sometimes gets violently angry with the internet and so it has to go to a battered internets shelter.
- dagamer34, on 07/11/2008, -1/+10What, Verizon has immunity?
- Erich100, on 07/11/2008, -1/+9I'm on Comcast also, maybe it's my computer, but when I'm on digg It sloooows dooown.
- klco, on 07/11/2008, -5/+11I am so sick of you free-market fanatics. The end result of an unregulated, free market is monopoly. The US government has been far to limited in breaking up dangerous monopolies or duopolies here in the US.
- jhandfield, on 07/11/2008, -1/+7Your parents must be so proud.
- wisewaif, on 07/11/2008, -0/+6I would like to think that people in this country would be so pissed at these kind of tactics, and online and offline businesses would be so pissed to not have equal access, that the congress would get involved to shut this crap down if it ever happens.
- mbowersox, on 07/11/2008, -0/+6So I just moved and my only choices for internet service are Comcast and Verizon DSL (1.5Mbps). Verizon hasn't rolled FIOS out to my area yet (although I have seen them laying fiber), which is unbelievable considering I'm right across the water from NYC. I would rather go with dial-up before choosing Comcast, given all of the horror stories I have heard about them. Hurry up Verizon!!
- nigh7dagger, on 07/11/2008, -4/+9I see what you did there.
- ErrorLoading, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5lolz
- drywallbmb, on 07/11/2008, -1/+6Nice one, sockpuppets. Made my morning.
- Noods, on 07/11/2008, -1/+6So let me get this straight.
The FCC prevents companies from entering markets where there is only one ISP. Then it gives those monopolies billion dollar subsides to develop their product and ignore alternative technologies. How are other companies supposed to enter these markets legally or financially?
The real joke here is that pro-government people ignore the fact that the government is creating the monopoly and you hand the whole market over to the same dumb ***** who just passed telecom immunity. What the *****?!?
Buried as inaccurate. - bradleyland, on 07/11/2008, -1/+6I'm so sick of you econ-illiterates. Government run programs are monopolies too! The same cronies run the ship, just flying the state flag, rather than the corporate one. Rogers? Telus? Both state granted wireless monopolies, both under tremendous pressure due to brain-dead iPhone pricing.
Comcast has a near monopoly because of the _government_, not because of capitalism. Cable companies must negotiation with state and local agencies to gain access to the right-of-way where cables must be run. The process is rife with kick-backs and corruption. Comcast knows how to get what they need. They go to the top. The guys the bottom don't matter, because they have no say. You get what you ask for, and the public at large seems more concerned with whether or not someone says *****, piss, *****, ***** on television than their right to fair use of public property. That's a people problem, not a capitalism problem.
The grass is definitely NOT greener on the other side. - HonoredMule, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4I believe it is primarily a last-mile issue however, and a poorly-made assumption that we'd all be happy little consumers and not go trying to push stuff /back/ upstream on cable networks. They could come right out and explain that, but then they'd get a huge backlash from free speech/freedom of information advocates.
- lead2thehead, on 07/11/2008, -1/+5You can still get fast connection speeds... for $199 a month.
- armakaryk, on 07/11/2008, -1/+5to summarize: "What Comcast wants. Your Soul."
- asterlacnala, on 07/11/2008, -2/+6It isn't in response to communism, it is in response to good moral standing: someone provides something at a price, you either take it or not. You don't get someone bigger to FORCE them to provide it on YOUR terms, because that is tyranny.
- redscofield, on 07/11/2008, -1/+5THIS IS COMCASSSSSSSST!!!
- bcr8u, on 07/11/2008, -1/+5damn BFI!
- Noods, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4It is some of the new advertisements that are doing it. I get the same thing.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -2/+6i forgot to mention that the mandatory 'explicit content' filtering box will be $3/month rental. this will protect you from nonpatriot hate speech.
- wexmajor, on 07/11/2008, -5/+8Seriously, it seems like people think that just because communism turned out to be a ***** idea that means 100% pure capitalism must be the perfect economic system.
- oxymoron69, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4Remember that next time you ever call into a call centre... bwhahahahahahahaha
Profit comes first, customers are after shareholders and employees somewhere down the list! - kamiten, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3I'm in the same boat. Just moved, with Comcast and Verizon DSL being the only things available. Even more frustrating for me is the fact that FIOS is on the poll directly opposite my house, but Verizon won't run it because I'm in a condo, or "multi unit home" as they say. I've spoken with them several times on it, and even with the condo association and building management giving them permission, they will NOT run FIOS to the house unless every unit in the building agrees to use them.
Lame. - FearFactory, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4Comcast knows its dying, once Verizon FIOS deployment gains more momentum Comcast will become extinct.
- Noods, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4So let me get this straight.
The FCC prevents companies from entering markets where there is only one ISP. Then it gives those monopolies billion dollar subsides to develop their product and ignore alternative technologies. How are other companies supposed to enter these markets legally or financially?
The real joke here is that pro-government people, like yourself, ignore the fact that the government is creating the monopoly and you hand the whole market over to the same dumb ***** who just passed telecom immunity. - secrity, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4Until there is an alternative, everybody who wants service will be forced to use their service. What you are saying is the same as saying that the 1960's Bell System should have been free to block whoever and whatever they wanted to block.
- secrity, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3It is happening, the problem is that most consumers don't know that it is happening.
- trippinlikegod, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3@verfel there was a video on digg a while back (i don't know if it was legit or not) but it was from an AT&T employee admitting that he personally hooked up the tapping hardware. Apparently the backbone building he was working in had a secure room where he was to hook up loopback type devices, he didn't realize what he was doing until sometime later when FBI/NSA people were the only ones who had access to the server room.
- zezerik, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4Che Guevara over here... Pound the keyboard a little harder kid...
- Faasnat, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3Maybe he means it in a sexual manner...
- s0m31john, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4"I am so sick of you freedom fanatics."
Looks like you made a typo, I fixed it for you. I'm sick of freedom too, I hope the government will tell me what to get at the store this afternoon, I have a hard time thinking for myself. - shmatt, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2First off, "high-speed dialup" is an oxymoron, and a retarded one to boot.
There is NOT more than one ISP for broadband in many, many places in the US. In my city, they gave half to Comcast and half to another ***** ISP- both are actually cable companies, and neither will give you internet without paying for ***** TV too! If you move across town you have to switch ISPs, and here in D.C,, across town is a couple of miles at most. That's ***** - Taiyoryu, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Obligatory DUH!
That said, any company supplying "tubes" wants to do this. Just look at Verizon. If there's profit in an action and there's nothing hindering a company from doing that action, that action will be done. However. you've got a serious conflict of interest if you're not just delivering content but producing it as well. - noahco, on 07/11/2008, -3/+5As much as I hate comcast for everything it's doing, they don't really have a reason to stop doing it until a large amount of people stop using their service. I'll complain about comcast a ton but in all reality they are the only option that is affordable to me so I will continue to use their services. However, they have gotten to the tipping point where I'm about ready to pay double somewhere else for less quality as long as i'm not supporting them.
- Elranzer, on 07/11/2008, -1/+3There needs to be more fiber optic services than FIOS. Verizon's monopoly on FIOS-type networks has caused them to just stop caring about most markets (it's been 3-4 years and my metro area still doesn't have it!). When will another company come in and offer a FIOS-type ISP??
- HareBall, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2You two guys are lucky. My only broadband access above 1 or 2 meg is Comcast.
- libertao, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Same here, they are charging me $62 a month for just internet!! Bastards
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