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- SoyChemist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+200This guy is a hero in my book. Internet service policies should be transparent. I am quite frustrated with the quality of my comcast service too.
- sockpuppets, on 11/15/2007, -3/+111This is totally comcastic.
- fredjoe, on 11/15/2007, -0/+80Yeah, its about time they got what they deserve. They oversold my friend's line and his internet is useless now.
- SiNN4R, on 11/15/2007, -1/+63More people should join and turn it into a class action.
- syroncoda, on 11/15/2007, -6/+61about damn time! ***** CONCAST.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -0/+46we all knew it was coming , lets see them talk their way out of this one. Problem is he has to prove it, i wish him the best of luck
- TH3W1R3D, on 11/15/2007, -0/+31Dugg up for the effort..
- Chompy, on 11/15/2007, -0/+30Agreed. We either need network neutrality legislation or *real* broadband competition in every market.
- digitalarcanum, on 11/15/2007, -1/+23It's really funny. I called comcast up in my area to complain about my torrent upload speeds --just for the lulz.
1 excuse: it's a "me" problem (my router doesn't have port forwarding set up properly, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, etc.) called ***** on that and told them everything is forwarded properly.
2 excuse: they're telling me bit torrent isn't the only application that's blocked. e-donkey, gnutella, lotus notes, etc. my response: what the ***** does that have to do with you telling why my torrent traffic is slow?
3 excuse: they're telling me that other ISPs are doing it my response: that may be true, but that doesn't tell me how you're going to solve it.
I was given two ticket numbers and I'd get a call back in 72 hours. It's been approximately 2 days. I can't wait to call back and call them on their *****. I'm seriously contemplating saving up money and moving to satellite internet, just to prove a point to comcast that this is *****.
Tell me when this suit goes class action and I'll be there. - gamer31, on 11/15/2007, -2/+23dugg up for effort
edit:oooooo i get it :) - gcnaddict, on 11/15/2007, -2/+22would've gotten more if you hadn't censored it.
- monkeestylee, on 11/15/2007, -1/+20good luck
- sockpuppets, on 11/15/2007, -0/+18You seem like a very angry man.
- dynacrylic, on 11/15/2007, -0/+18I would if it was class action.
- benitojuarez, on 11/15/2007, -0/+18thats not a problem, If you run bitorrent and then fire up a packet sniffer you should be able to see the incoming rst packets.
- AndrewWiggin, on 11/15/2007, -2/+18It's much less of a story that someone "filed suit" rather than "sued" Comcast.
- desistere, on 11/15/2007, -2/+17It's about time someone tried to make Comcast accountable to its customers.
- digitalarcanum, on 11/15/2007, -0/+14right so since bit torrent is to pirate music by some makes it a bad protocol for all, right? What if I told you FTP/HTTP downloads can be used to illegally download music too? What if comcast started blocking FTP downloads and people sued over it? Would you call them all pirates and hope the RIAA sues them? Fact is what comcast is doing is *****. I'm doing my best every day to say ***** you and seed my torrents, even if it means that I have to reset my connection every five minutes. It's bandwidth that I pay for and sharing files with bit torrent isn't against their terms of service, so I'm using bandwidth I'm entitled to.
- Zarokima, on 11/15/2007, -2/+16Thanks for the censorship. You almost offended me.
- jerwong, on 11/15/2007, -0/+14Bittorrent does not equate to piracy. It can be used to download legitimate content such as Linux distributions and media distributed under Creative Commons. RIAA lawsuits are a completely different story.
- PeppermintPig, on 11/15/2007, -2/+15I vote competition, but to do that, we'd also need states to stop regulating infrastructure so it's easier to establish these physical access points. It requires a greater respect for private property rights. As it is now, the state tends to monopolize the property in which the infrastructure is established, not to mention they like to tell you whether or not you can set up new infra and dictate which technologies are acceptable, mostly through the FCC. Corporations which run these utilities are highly insulated from competition.
- RanZom, on 11/15/2007, -1/+14the flood gates are opening mother fkers, comcast will pay for their *****
Its COMCASTIC! - Hikrill, on 11/15/2007, -0/+12Yknow, these ***** liars...we switched to DSL just to avoid the calls from their network abuse dept.. calling to say we were DL too much, we were using the service, that's what it is for isn't it??
this is what gets me,,,
Our customers use the Internet for downloading and uploading files, watching movies and videos, streaming music, sharing digital photos, accessing numerous peer-to-peer sites, VOIP applications like Vonage, and thousands of other applications online.
NOW!!! that is exaclty the stuff we were doing??? Why the ***** did we get a call saying that we could not do this, that we were using too much BANDWIDTH!!!
When this ***** above says we can???
U watch a DVD5 from netflix or any other services, your gonna be using bandwith, that is more that 4 gigs right there but then we also need to mention the DVD9's,, these numbers are at least 200 to 300 gigs a month for watching movies online, AM I WRONG with these numbers?? Then add online Browsing, YouTube, email, porn, myspace, google video's and Gaming (PS3, 360, and PC)...
***** them,
We have a responsibility to provide all of our customers with a good Internet experience and we use the latest technologies to manage our network so that they can continue to enjoy these applications.
***** THEM,
H~ - 80hd, on 11/15/2007, -0/+12I always wondered what part of 10x faster than DSL isn't false advertising when you fire up BT and it crawls - Every time, and because thats how they want it.
- HonoredMule, on 11/15/2007, -0/+12This is where wifi can potentially be a boon to competition. Instead of getting state and municipal permission to run lines all over the place, you only need ownership of / access to applicable wireless broadband spectrum and blocks of property here and there zoned to allow building of communications towers. Sure there will still be obstacles, but it will still be a lot easier, and once a state lets you run lines, you can run the last mile wireless, from wired backbones, without ever having to deal with small municipalities, because you can just transmit from outside their jurisdiction. And, maybe soon you won't even need state lines, and can just use wifi towers as the backbone too.
Mind you, I'm talking out of my ass, but that's how it looks to me. - hansk, on 11/15/2007, -0/+11his name is postalwrker, of course he's angry.
- Arramol, on 11/15/2007, -0/+10The issue in this case though isn't whether or not BitTorrent is bad, but whether or not Comcast is misrepresenting its services. The evidence that it's doing that looks to be pretty much overwhelming. Comcast's going to need to muster up a better defense than the "Nuh-uh, we are NOT!" ridiculousness that its PR department keeps spewing.
- Aspire36, on 11/15/2007, -1/+10The sad thing is, I dont see them changing there shotty business practices... They may stop blocking torrents, for now, but they'll find some other way to piss us off.
- pintomp3, on 11/15/2007, -1/+10he has comcast, his comments are throttled too.
- VicTheKnife, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8Good, I'm sick of not being able to torrent anymore...actually I'm just sick of Comcast in general. Anyone who has ever had to talk on the phone to those sons-of-bitches knows what I'm talking about.
- TH3W1R3D, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8Get your ass off digg and go apply for a job with the RIAA,
Heres their number: 202 775-0101 - jaewon223, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8another baseless comment
- nastajus, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7It's a popular sentiment. Fortunately it appears that kind of comment usually gets eclipsed by more coherent contributions.
- nattfodd, on 11/15/2007, -2/+9"Comcast does not, has not, and will not block any websites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services."
They're still using this excuse. Blocking and throttling are two completely different things. No one says they are blocking the traffic. - inactive, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6censoring your comments is not cool
- walmartconnect, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Well done to Hart, perhaps Comcast will change it's methods and actually offer "blazingly fast downloads", no matter what the protocol.
- underburn, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Sign me up.
- Primous, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6People from all over the country should jump and jump on it fast to completely crush comcast into submission. Of course having this go slow may prove more valuable in changing our internet to fios.
- slamtv7, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7Someone please sue Rogers :(
- arcooke, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Damn you.. I tried to highlight the text to reveal what was underneath..
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Getting the suit going is a good first step :)
- nastajus, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6I thought those we're synonyms. But I never paid attention to court stuff before, until it affected something I care about.
- dapple, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5Well, it's quite simple really. Cable, unlike Dial-up or DSL, is not a single connection from you to comcast. Think of it as a party line that they used to have, compared to everyone having a separate line as most if not all do now. In other words, the more people using it at one point in time, the slower it becomes. If you "oversell" a line, it just means that there are so many people on that one section, that the internet is horribly slow. This does not happen with Dial-up or DSL because each connection only caries information for that connection and its bandwidth is not shared. I hope that helped =)
- BRODEL, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5"Vote this ***** down so no one has to waste their time reading empty drivel."
Per your request, you have been dugg down. You're welcome. - theblacknight, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5I think comcastic is more synonymous with craptastic than fantastic.
- Chompy, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5The biggest obstacle to wifis is the fact that the established broadband providers keep suing to prevent carriers from being able to establish wifi service in their little cartel zones.
- harajukukei, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5azureus... force encryption
- DeathfireD, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Explanation of what bittorrent is to people that don't have a computer is extremely easy. It's probably easier then trying to explain what a computer is. Heres an example(I'm sure everyone else could come up with better examples).
Imagen you're with a group of friends (peers) and one of your friends has a box of cookies (torrent + chunks) he wants to give out to everyone. So he starts handing cookies to whoever's next to him expecting them to pass the cookies around. Now image, someone who's not your friend(Comcast) taking these cookies from that person who's giving them out and telling him "Don't worry, I'll hand them out and say they where from you" but he doesn't and, in staid, runs away and eats them. - acidbass, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5that was really ***** dumb, shut up.
- NorthKorea, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4ive got a better cookie analogy:
imagine you live in the future - you and all your friends have duplicators and they all want one whole cookie. One person has the whole cookie. They duplicate the cookie and it splits it into tiny pieces which they give to their friends. Once one friend has a tiny piece of the cookie, they can duplicate that tiny piece and give it to another friend and so on, until everyone has every duplicated piece of the cookie. Since everyone has duplicators, it's much faster than the first person with the cookie trying to duplicate every piece of the cookie for every friend.
Comcast is a bastard, who now steps in and makes your duplicator work extremely slowly, making it very tough and very, very slow to give any others your tiny, duplicated pieces of cookies. -
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