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- MavRevMatt, on 11/09/2007, -7/+507Digg this, raise awareness. Leave Comcast.
- Lkr721993, on 10/10/2007, -2/+343If Comcast wasn't a ***** monopoly, and didn't buy out all local competitors, I would've left them by now. But unfortunately, they are all that is left, which I hear is the case in a lot of areas.
- protogenxl, on 10/15/2007, -6/+223I WANT MY LINUX ISO BITCHES!
- Shigglyboo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+175I too am stuck with Comcast. there is no other internet provider choice really. I could switch to AT&T DSL but I'd have to buy a land line.
Comcast totally ***** me too. I signed up for 6 months @ $29.99 and a $100 cash back offer on a modem. When my welcome kit arrived and I called in to have the guy come out and get me set up they said they could not locate my order #. They sent a guy out anyway but refused to honor the deal. I've been paying $57.99 a month and no rebate. I brought all my paperwork into the brick & mortar location and they told me I made deal with a 3rd party called "comcast offers" and I had to fight with them. well, their phone number was 1-800-comcast. this 3rd party didn't exist as far as I could tell. I asked if they had been authorized to use the logo and sell comcast service plans, she said yes, so I asked her to honor the deal, showed her my confirmation printouts, etc. she told me to "take my stuff and go somewhere else". I hate comcast. I filed a BBB report on them, they had 500+ unanswered claims almost two years ago in my area. They could care less about your satisfaction. Same with AT&T.....
hell in a hand basket I say. - Langford, on 10/10/2007, -2/+124This is how net neutrality dies, one service at a time. Before long it won't be possible to introduce new services, because only a short list of approved existing services will be allowed.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+122They are also throttling Vonage. *****
- digduality2, on 10/10/2007, -13/+117#1. drop com-crapstic.
#2 if you can't ... learn to encrypt your bit torrent headers:
http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/how-to-encrypt-bit-torrent-traffic/
This helps avoid traffic shaping with this protocol.
Also everyone should send a letter to comcast pitching a bitch to them.
http://www.comcastsupport.com/netemail/useremailstartcom.asp - ViciousDotOrg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+101Take them to small claims court. They wont show up and you'll win by default.
- AcePup, on 10/10/2007, -2/+99I have to admit, being a COX subscriber I'm greatful I do not have Comcast. They may have good deals when it comes to pricing, but they are to much of a big brother to bother with.
As Matt said DIGG IT!!! - Liotius, on 10/10/2007, -3/+80Before long there will be nowhere left to turn...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+77I'm stuck, I'm with Comcast and I'm going to have to work hard to find away around this.
- keyboardduder, on 10/10/2007, -4/+78I just joined them and they're horrible. Their backbone is pathetic, their service slows in the middle of the night almost every night since I've had it. My game pings suck, I cannot play a solid game online anymore, and they have me locked into a 1 year contract. (3 for 99.99) Their voicemail sucks, their support sucks, and their pricing sucks. I switched from VERIZON FIOS because FIOS TV blew huge dick. Comcast's TV is better but their internet is reprehensible. Even 3Mbp/s DSL was better than 6Mbp/s Cable. ***** you Comcast! Try running a tracert with Comcast's awesome backbone! It takes ***** forever! At least in Philadelphia!
- SweetMercury, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68I would, because Comcast is quite possibly one of the worst companies I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with, but my and many others' municipals prevent competition in return for protection money paid by Comcast. So it's Comcast or Dial-Up for me.
I'm sure Time Warner would LOVE to offer me their business at a rate competative to Comcast, we're just prevented from engaging in free trade by our governments. Thanks guys! Because I, as mentally functioning adult, certainly don't have there wherewithal to choose my cable company on my own. - madh4tter, on 10/10/2007, -10/+74Hardly comcastic. This is starting to become like Microsoft all over again.
- torpedoes83, on 10/10/2007, -2/+60Bet you wish you asked your congressman to support net neutrality now, don't you?
- Lyanto, on 10/10/2007, -5/+63On the other hand, you have a provider named Cox.
- slider121, on 10/10/2007, -1/+52Gotta love isps. They take your 40 dollars a month but don't attempt to use your bandwith for anything but web surfing. Can't do Bit-Torrent (even if it is for legit use, ie. downloading Linux isos).
- mjenkins, on 10/10/2007, -3/+53Does World of Warcraft still use BitTorrent for patches and upgrades? If this were true, there are going to be a lot of WoW players up in arms. Some of their downloads use to take forever even without being throttled.
- landohlakes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+48Tell them to just switch ISPs. Oh wait, Comcast has local monopolies so you have no other choice. Thank you FCC!
- Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -8/+51Which is why we need some semblance of net neutrality.
- SweetMercury, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43True. I've gotten (and seeded) ISOs for a bunch of different distros. Good thing Comcast feels the need to prevent that. *****.
- Noctem, on 10/10/2007, -3/+41So you don't like Verizon and you don't like Comcast .... You're running out of options :)
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+39Nah, there are plenty of other providers out there not to like.
- tgunner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37Hey Verizon, this is your chance, get off of your fat ass and bring FIOS to the people!
- felchdonkey, on 10/10/2007, -19/+55Hey Republicans and Libertarians, here's the fruits of your labor. Congratulations on killing Net Neutrality.
- Inverno, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34I know I would welcome ***** into my home.
- Raider007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33I'd love to...but they are the only broadband provider in my area...
too far for DSL, clearwire wireless is a joke and ***** dialup...
:( - totorototoro, on 10/10/2007, -3/+35Comcast has been steadily increasing their download speeds (I get over 12Mbps/384), while at the same time, steadily getting rid of any reason to have increased download speeds :p (i.e. cutting out Usenet groups, throttling Bittorrent)
If they start blocking/limiting my paid Usenet access, I'll have to find someone else..but its not like there are a lot of options. - DirkBelig, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Comcast raised my rates after 7 years without warning. When I asked what was up, they said that they discovered that I didn't have cable TV service and that I had to pay the higher rate. I never had TV service and told them that it's not my fault they gave me a lower rate and the woman just sneered that they weren't going to change it. When I mentioned that DSL was advertised at 1/3 their cost, she lied and said that other broadband options like DSL weren't "true broadband; they are dial-up".
I called around and was surprised that AT&T could only offer their slowest (764 kbs) service to my suburban Detroit address. Even the operator was surprised at that. So, I'm stuck with Comcast and their fascist tactics. First they cut off newsgroup servers; now this. Pathetic. - Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34While Cox isn't throttling now, they may in the future. So let's get this in public so that hopefully Comcast loses money on this and other providers are too scared to throttle. This really pisses me off, too. Bit-Torrent is not just for downloading illegal files... It's how I get all of my Linux distros.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -12/+41FiOS is the best net in the states, pretty much. You owned yourself for switching. FAIL!
- Kavok, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31Does using utorrent + encryption + random ports work?
- Jdban, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30WHAT BASTARDS!
- Starks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29RTFA... Encryption won't work.
- tomz17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28#1 doesn't apply here... broadband access is either a monopoly or a duopoly in most places in the USA.
- Quick2822, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Like the other people above mentioned, I am also stuck with Comcast. They have a monopoly on the Chicago market. I can either go with AT&T DSL, which means getting a regular phone line and a slower connection, or be stuck with Comcast. Plus I'd rather have no internet than give a single cent of my money to AT&T (you know, the whole spying thing).
Wish we had a free market that would drive down prices for cable providers (among other things). I don't know about you, but I'm pretty fed up with paying for a package to get a few channels I actually want, and having no desire to watch the rest.
Someone needs to adopt a "pay per channel" system. You can go online, and you pick the channels. But I'm just a dreamer. - Ignathius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26many game sites are using bit torrent more and more these days to distribute patches and demos as well.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26yup i too have no choice.it does suck i used to get 700kB-1000kB constant on bit torrent and enjoyed comcast but now im seeing 80-200kB.
- DryMaltExtract, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23It's all ***** ***** on the ISPs part. "Buy our internet and have X download speed and Y upload speed!!!!"* *You are not allowed to use these speeds. They shouldn't be able to make misleading statements like that. I'm a Rogers, Canada customer and while azureus thinks rogers is superbad, exploiting port 1720 works for now.
It's especially infurating that rogers does try to limit P2P protocols when they also have a hard cap in place. If I want to use my 60GB in one day and pay assloads of overages I should be allowed. If my using my full speed affects other users they shouldn't be advertising that I'll get those speeds. - zaren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Confirmed. I signed up for Vonage when I had Comcast for Net access, but would alrways get horrible sound. I eventually found out that my bandwidth was throttling down to 56k(!!!) whenever I was using the Vonage service.
So, I left the cable monopoly of Comcast, and signed up for the DSL monopoly of AT&T, a slightly different category of suck. Now, instead of throttled bandwidth, I get random unannounced outages every few weeks lasting from a few minutes to a few hours. Fun. - Amplix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Oh man.. I used to live where there was Cox service and I had the TV on while in the other room getting some stuff - I hear a commercial advertising their new On Demand Pay Per View (it was new back then) and I hear "Get Cox on demand" I thought to myself, hmm... what did that guy just say??? then it cuts to a female 'satisfied customer' "I just LOVE Cox on Demand, its so quick, easy and cheap, everyone should have Cox on Demand!" - I guess my head must have been in the gutter cause here I go running into the room looking in the direction of the TV even before the TV comes into view hmm. Then I felt rather silly having had just run into the room at the sound of the word "Cox" - :-/
- vypergts, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Here's an idea if you hate the router they give you for FREE so much, USE YOUR OWN. There's no rule saying that actiontec makes the only router that works with FiOS almost every router I can think of supports PPPoE which is what it uses. Seriously, why would anybody switch from FiOS to Comcrap? I'd consider moving just to be in a place that offered it. You deserve to be slapped with a wet trout.
- ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Said one of the ISPs in the discussion: "Just because you pay 49.99 for a 1.5-3.0mbps connection doesn’t mean your entitled to use whatever protocols you wish on your ISP’s network without them provisioning it to make the network experience good for all users involved."
Well, first of all, you're charging more than that, so stfu. And wait; even though I'm aware that the "connection speed" isn't a guarantee, you're now telling me it's not only a guarantee, but you'll be throttled if you come close to it. So paying for a certain speed of connection really means "this is the speed we're not going to allow you to sustain"?? *****!! - andydumi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20He said Fios TV.
That said, he can have Fios internet and Comcast Cable TV. BUt bundles are where they get you with prices. - arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH ISPs!
Damnit! When will people understand this? Most localites have only ONE provider. You either take what they give you or you get nothing. ISPs have monopolies in almost every area that they exists. - Fedaykin311, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Free markets only work when there is actually competion
- psygnisfive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Would you prefer an ISP named *****?
- TheJopker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18We all understand that there are costs to running an ISP. However, they are advertising speeds and services that they simply are unwilling to fulfill. As long as we are informed of the limitations of our services (monthly download caps, etc.) and actual speeds then there should be no problem. With digital content distribution becoming more popular there are an increasing number of legitimate reasons for high bandwidth use. That 1% is becoming larger all the time and bandwidth offerings aren't keeping up with the demand.
- prammy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17And WOW patches
- Sarevok9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16one of the best legit uses of BT technology.... sad that people cant see past the dark side of it.
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