Torrential Comcast Conspiracies
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Stephanie (AKA Script) is also having issues with Comcast:
In reference to your Ustream video about Comcast. I too am an unfortunate Comcast subscriber. I was wondering are you using Comcast home or business service? The reason I am asking is that I have a feeling that those of us who use home service are going to be pretty much forced to buy the business service in order to maintain the downloading speeds that we are used to. It’s just a hunch but I have noticed an increasingly high number of Comcast business TV ads lately with the promise of 12Mbps download speed. I am curious about your take on this. Because I think the motivation behind flagging certain users is driven by some monetary gain not because they want to necessarily care about the spread of torrents.
Well, I certainly wouldn’t recommend running a business on any kind of connection that Comcast provides! No way. I recently “upgraded” my residential plan to business merely because I could attain a marginally better upload rate. Comcast didn’t force me to make that decision.
However, it’s still mistreating many of its customers.
I download Torrents from legitimate sites, especially a lot of FLACs, and I also distribute FLACs from myself and other indie artists who allow their music to be shared. This indiscriminate profiling of users based on a filetype or protocol they use is tantamount to racial profiling (something I know a bit about) and it really angers me. Anyway I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the possibility that Comcast might be doing this for monetary gain.
Oh, but… Comcast hasn’t admitted to any wrongdoing on its part. This is its service, and it can do with it what it wishes - but when it doesn’t tell customers what’s going on, we get a little pissy.
Because of politics and payoffs, you’re stuck with what you’ve got. This is not a system ruled by free enterprise. It’s all about control — and Comcast is pushing a drug that you simply cannot shake. It’s getting to be the only dealer in town. Qwest is just as bad around here; I’d move to FIOS in a heartbeat, but because of the same anti-competitive, anti-consumer regulations… I can’t get Verizon’s service in my area.
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5 Comments
Chuck
October 24th, 2007
at 2:51am
I live in New Jersey and have Comcast Digital Cable, Comcast Broadband and Digital voice for about 3 years now (Digital Voice for 6 months). I can’t recall ever having any kind of outage- TV or Internet. My son and I love Comcast (he’s a big gamer). I’ve also noticed my speeds going up. At least, if I check the speed using speakeasy.net, my download speed typically hits 14Mbs and my upload speed is now hitting 1.4Mbs.
Is there a lot of construction in your area? What does Comcast say?
Again, as far as I know, all’s fine in Eastern PA and Western NJ.
DarkAlly
October 24th, 2007
at 7:24am
At some point in the near future I’m afraid we (internet users) will have to boycott the internet and/or cellphone companies to make our point for net neutrality. I just hope everyone will be committed to the cause and see the big picture.
John Panton
October 24th, 2007
at 7:50am
I have also constantly having trouble with comcast although I am in Germany.
Every now and then, my personal emails to comcast subscribers in the US are blocked as spam. It is a lot of trouble to get them unblocked. In fact, the latest occurrence still hasn’t been unblocked after several days and my first unblocking request was simply refused. Something needs to be done!
John
Steve
October 25th, 2007
at 5:44pm
The northern suburbs in Minneapolis have been a nightmare for the past month (seemed to stablized now) but the d/l speeds are LOWER than previous speeds. My wife’s company in Seattle installed VOIP phone systems and I have had my house hardwired since dsl days (1998). She was dropping the VOIP 4 and 5 times a day or right in the middle of a sales call or web demo. Both TV and internet would seem to pause then refresh, with the TV coming back and the internet taking 2-3 minutes to refresh. Maddening!! Many complaints and tests later cable lines strength went up and a new highend NETGEAR replaced the standard Linksys and problems seemed to go away. Comcast said that upgrading to the Business package for $80.00 per month would solve the problem with VOIP … Yeah Rigth! But now things are better. Not sure what the solution was … router or upgrade of the signal strength. But overall as a Business Intelligence Support Manager for a Fortune 500 company, I’d give their support and personnel a 2 out of 5. My people acted like that toward a client, they would get fired. Rant over …
Andrew
January 13th, 2008
at 11:29am
UNBELIEVABLE WHAT COMCAST DID To A LIVE BROADCAST YESTERDAY!…
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