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One of the commenters on the earlz site posted a link to a DSLReports forum post with firmware version 9.0.6h2d30:
http://www.dslreports.com/foru...

It's a little over halfway down the page. You do have to create a DSLReports account if you don't have one in order to download. Just be sure to disable checks for updates or your fix will break as soon as AT&T sees the outdated firmware and updates it.

All the good AG has to do is go to https://www.samknows.com/

They collect data about ISPs worldwide from people like me and you and report to governments and other interested parties. I get a monthly report with graphs that show my up/down speed, my latency, my lost packet percentage for each day of the month. Helpful for me, helpful for others.

For the NY AG, they will tell him the claimed vs actual performance of each ISP with lovely charts, graphs and great detail.

This costs me nothing. They sent me a 'whitebox' from the UK which is connected to my router. I'm pretty sure they aren't spying on my pron sessions, but don't really care. You can join the 440,000 of us in the program too.

Additionally, http://www.dslreports.com/ collects a great deal of information about ISPs. Mostly anecdotal, voluntarily submitted by site users. You may find this site useful too.

I am glad the debate is currently between those claiming the number of stealth domains contacted is over a hundred, and those claiming it is merely dozens.

The sad fact is, we don't really understand ("we" meaning anyone not on the Microsoft team, and it is possible that no one person there has a handle on it) what the hell is going on.

Here is what we do know: with default settings, the amount of drama is hard to qualify. It absolutely pushes stuff to bing when you try to type calc.exe, cortana gets updated with contacts, calls made, etc., so probably apps ran intermittently get pushed to that, windows downloads tiles even if told not to, windows bypasses vpn when it can, unless stopped by an external firewall, windows ignores host file entries for certain connections.

Here's a bunch of known domains:
http://www.dslreports.com/foru...

And these are just the ones that Microsoft actually bothers to DNS before contacting. I'll hazard a guess that you'll eventually need blocks by IP numbers.

I don't know if Microsoft contacts a literal hundred domains. I think the fact that it's a giant hassle to make that number zero is scary as shit, and out of everyone who has released telemetry removal and spyware blocking tools, no one is certain that they got everything.

Cablecards were suppose to usher in the great revolution in consumer set top boxes, breaking free the need to rely on cable companies expensive STB rentals. Aside from Tivos, Ceton InfiniTV products, and Silicondust HDHomeRun Prime, there's really not much out there for a compelling consume device.

"So aside from these three choices, there is really not enough choice for devices."

Or are you saying those three choices are no good? Each of them will do the job perfectly. Can't speak for Ceton or TiVo myself but have heard good things about cablecard capability of both. Have a couple of HDHomeRuns here; both work without complaint or crashing.

The Problem

The cablecard provisioning process stinks. Cox made it as easy as possible for us; they let us pick up the cablecard at their local store, and the reps on the phone knew exactly what they needed to do to make it work. But sometimes, the cable card just randomly stops working.

I love how my Windows HTPC costs nothing every month, cost only $300 to build in the first place almost three years ago. And I love that it does not lag on channel swaps like the Motorola DVRs that CableCo puts out. Being able to dump a 2TB HDD in there to cover as many shows as we wish to watch. Really great.

But having to call CableCo a couple of times to get them to send the magic signal to my cable card or whatever it is they do to fix the SDV tuning adapter...not for the feint of heart.

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There's a good discussion here.

If he'd tried to do this project in San Francisco, the project would have been tied up for years in red tape and citizen protests.

Not to mention sued into oblivion by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

In a larger more populated area this kind of solution just wouldn't work, where a corporation would be doing the bureaucratic legwork and infrastructure maintenance required for a large scale operation.

If he'd tried to do this project in San Francisco, the project would have been tied up for years in red tape and citizen protests.

Now that Verizon has hooked up with AOL to share cookie data and personal information, it sure would be nice if the Verizon stealth cookies could be deletable.

Just a quick question, can the browser insert its own Verizon stealth cookie into the request URL?

And if that can be done, can it be used to poison the data, or even crash the Verizon tracking system?

Now that Verizon has hooked up with AOL to share cookie data and personal information, it sure would be nice if the Verizon stealth cookies could be deletable.

Yes. It was ugly.

Also, it is probably helpful to note that Southwestern Bell, a company that had a very bad reputation with customers, bought the name AT&T. There is no connection between the old AT&T and the company called AT&T today.

Got ATT Uverse, and Youtube videos were a choppy, stuttering mess. Googled a bit, and sure enough, disabling IPv6 in the router cleared up the problems.

As a Libertarian, I am often dismayed by other Libertarians saying "all regulation is bad". But that's not the actual Libertarian philosophy. Which is "the minimum regulation that works". Too many have seemed to forget those all-important last 2 words.

If you're a Libertarian how do you feel about the second vote, the one where the FCC is claiming for itself the authority to preempt State level legislation against municipal broadband services? I am not a Libertarian, nor a Republican, but I find that vote extremely disturbing; it has always been the sole province of the States to set the parameters within which their political subdivisions operate. If New York State wishes to preclude my municipality from setting up an ISP what business is that of the FCC? Can the Feds also preempt a decision that precludes municipalities from operating solid waste services? Sewer services?

I am generally supportive of what the FCC is trying to do with Title II but they're going a bridge too far if they think it's appropriate to step into the middle of the relationship between States and their political subdivisions. Three of five unelected Federal bureaucrats do not get to override the parameters my State Legislature sets for my city.

As we've noted, Verizon's been looking to offload its fixed-line assets for years, since the company clearly finds wireless service (and caps and overages) a far-more profitable venture. As such they've spent the last few years actually raising rates and neglecting unwanted customers in the hopes they'll leave to wireless, or leave to companies like Comcast (where they'll then be pitched...you guessed it...Verizon Wireless services as part of a co-marketing arrangement). After massive sales to Frontier and Fairpoint in years past, Verizon this week convinced Frontier to buy all of the company's DSL and FiOS customers in Florida, Texas and California. Amusingly (or not), Verizon is trying to spin the latest deal to pretend they were forced down this path because of net neutrality: ...

No, because they don't actially offer "SD only service", it's all HD now.

Cable TV is all digital, but not necessarily high-definition. Operators of digital cable systems can and do use conditional access in the digital cable platform to give 480i or 1080i versions of a particular channel to particular customers. For example, Comcast charges a "monthly HD technology fee" if an XFINITY TV customer has HD in his plan. This was true as of this forum post three years ago, and another forum post from three months ago confirms that it still is being charged. Or was it very recently discontinued?

Actually, yes, yes I do. Go read this https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

But here is an excerpt from the story in case you are too lazy to go read.

A decade ago, we wrote about how Verizon had made an agreement in Pennsylvania in 1994 that it would wire up the state with fiber optic cables to every home in exchange for tax breaks equalling $2.1 billion. In exchange for such a massive tax break, Verizon promised that all homes and businesses would have access to 45Mbps symmetrical fiber by 2015. By 2004, the deal was that 50% of all homes were supposed to have that. In reality, 0% did, and some people started asking for their money back. That never happened, and it appeared that Verizon learned a valuable lesson: it can flat out lie to governments, promise 100% fiber coverage in exchange for subsidies, then not deliver, and no one will do a damn thing about it.

Same exact promise in NJ, Verizon backed out of that as well, and managed to avoid a 45B fine http://www.dslreports.com/show...

Oh hey, look, NY City has the same problem... http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...

So yes, I do expect Verizon to wire every single household in a particular area. They made billions of dollars on tax breaks, cities, counties and states gutted consumer protections and franchise laws to appease the likes of Verizon, ATT and Comcast, and those companies turn around, and screw the residents.

and under the law any uploading the torrent can be come a felon / have to do 3-5 years.

http://www.dslreports.com/show...

I've had good luck with the Motorola SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 modem. (The SB6121 is apparently an obsolete model.) Eventually DOCSIS 3.1 modems will be available.

It took me an estimated 9 hours of communicating with Comcast representatives to get Comcast to bill at the advertised rate, instead of far more than Comcast advertises. This is what works: Call the Comcast executive offices at 215-640-8960. Be very polite and logical, but insistent.

Don't check your internet access speed with Speedtest.net. Apparently that web site always reports the advertised rate, the connection rate, not the data delivery rate. DSLReports Speed Test shows that I get one-seventh the speed Comcast advertises.

Comcast was the 2014 Worst Company In America.

Comcast has apparently found that most people don't spend the many hours Comcast makes it necessary to protest over-billing.

It's interesting to me that Comcast apparently expects employees to abuse customers, and Comcast employees hear that as permission to abuse Comcast, also.

Apparently the U.S. government no longer protects the people, but just allows any abuse that will make the rich richer, or allow the violent to be more violent.

It looks like it is related to the search engine for upgraders and new installations as shown in http://www.dslreports.com/foru... thread. :/

This money.

And that money.

They were never going to widely deploy 1Gbps anywhere, in the first place. They had stated to share holders that their capital expenditures would hardly go up to implement this in 35 cities, meaning they weren't really going to be doing very much anyway, other than uncapping existing fiber from dsl speeds.

http://www.dslreports.com/show...

sadly you won't have millenicom for long: http://www.dslreports.com/show...

Verizon stopped in North Jersey too, despite promising to get broadband to the whole state in 1993 by 2010, and tacking on a surcharge to EVERY bill they send out. For some reason the jokers that run the show decided to let em off the hook : http://www.dslreports.com/show... This is just wrong.. These little monopolies are not justifiable.

Comcast: Most obviously abusive -- In my opinion, Comcast is apparently the most obviously abusive organization in the United States. (The financial system of the U.S. government is more abusive, in my opinion, but not as obvious.)

I've just started Comcast internet service. It took several hours of my time to get connected because of needing to avoid the dishonesty. I've been over-billed perhaps 7 times, spent hours protesting that, and my first bill is not due yet.

Comcast employees abuse Comcast. It's interesting to note that, when Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, Comcast employees hear that as permission to also abuse Comcast. Comcast employees waste an enormous amount of time pretending to be friendly, apparently so they can get good results on surveys.

Comcast abuse discussion on Reddit -- The Comcast abuse Sub-Reddit is one place to voice complaints.

DSL Reports has information about Comcast. For example, Comcast High Speed Internet FAQ.

Reddit has many stories in other sub-reddits like this one: Comcast, without my permission and knowledge, adds services to my account and charges me extra for it.

The real internet connection speeds are much lower than the advertised speeds. Try the DSL Reports Flash Speed Test. There are other DSL Reports speed tests, also.

The Numion speed test is accurate, but requires the Java plug-in.

Most "speed tests" just show electrical connection speeds (the "line speed"), not actual data delivery speeds. They know what you want, and they lie.

Comcast: Most obviously abusive -- In my opinion, Comcast is apparently the most obviously abusive organization in the United States. (The financial system of the U.S. government is more abusive, in my opinion, but not as obvious.)

I've just started Comcast internet service. It took several hours of my time to get connected because of needing to avoid the dishonesty. I've been over-billed perhaps 7 times, spent hours protesting that, and my first bill is not due yet.

Comcast employees abuse Comcast. It's interesting to note that, when Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, Comcast employees hear that as permission to also abuse Comcast. Comcast employees waste an enormous amount of time pretending to be friendly, apparently so they can get good results on surveys.

Comcast abuse discussion on Reddit -- The Comcast abuse Sub-Reddit is one place to voice complaints.

DSL Reports has information about Comcast. For example, Comcast High Speed Internet FAQ.

Reddit has many stories in other sub-reddits like this one: Comcast, without my permission and knowledge, adds services to my account and charges me extra for it.

The real internet connection speeds are much lower than the advertised speeds. Try the DSL Reports Flash Speed Test. There are other DSL Reports speed tests, also.

The Numion speed test is accurate, but requires the Java plug-in.

Most "speed tests" just show electrical connection speeds (the "line speed"), not actual data delivery speeds. They know what you want, and they lie.

Comcast: Most obviously abusive -- In my opinion, Comcast is apparently the most obviously abusive organization in the United States. (The financial system of the U.S. government is more abusive, in my opinion, but not as obvious.)

I've just started Comcast internet service. It took several hours of my time to get connected because of needing to avoid the dishonesty. I've been over-billed perhaps 7 times, spent hours protesting that, and my first bill is not due yet.

Comcast employees abuse Comcast. It's interesting to note that, when Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, Comcast employees hear that as permission to also abuse Comcast. Comcast employees waste an enormous amount of time pretending to be friendly, apparently so they can get good results on surveys.

Comcast abuse discussion on Reddit -- The Comcast abuse Sub-Reddit is one place to voice complaints.

DSL Reports has information about Comcast. For example, Comcast High Speed Internet FAQ.

Reddit has many stories in other sub-reddits like this one: Comcast, without my permission and knowledge, adds services to my account and charges me extra for it.

The real internet connection speeds are much lower than the advertised speeds. Try the DSL Reports Flash Speed Test. There are other DSL Reports speed tests, also.

The Numion speed test is accurate, but requires the Java plug-in.

Most "speed tests" just show electrical connection speeds (the "line speed"), not actual data delivery speeds. They know what you want, and they lie.

On RoadRunner I think you're confused, this was always a marketing brand name of Time Warner Cable Internet. At some point they stopped using the brand name, but the same people\ownership are still in place, even if it uses a different brand name now.

@Home was also different, in that Comcast and others paid them to build out their network and once it because big enough they just took the network back that they already paid for. This was in the original agreement with @Home and @Home still runs Internet services for other smaller ISPs (though it's now part of the Excite family).

There was no cancellation of franchise rights in either case.

I reached out to Comcast and was told by spokesman Charlie Douglas that the report is "wildly inaccurate."

"The anecdotal chat room evidence provided is not consistent with our agents’ messages and is not accurate," said Douglas. "Per our own internal review, we have found no evidence that these conversations took place, nor do we employ a Security Assurance team member named Kelly.

Douglas proceeded to state that "Comcast doesn’t monitor users’ browser software or web surfing and has no program addressing the Tor browser. Customers are free to use their Xfinity Internet service to visit any website or use it however they wish otherwise

http://www.dslreports.com/show...

we need this in the USA

sonic.net has no datacaps and no "artificial" speed limits. [Note: I'm not affiliated with them--just a very happy customer since I switched in March].

Of course, I'm assuming that when you said "CPUC" that means California PUC. If so, go to http://www.sonic.net/ and enter your AT&T landline number. They will tell you how many feet you are from the sonic CO. Then, go to http://www.dslreports.com/foru... to see what your likely speed with sonic will be.

I'm 5000 feet to the sonic CO, so I got 1.3 megabytes/second [2x AT&T's elite service]. sonic is also cheaper. And, tech support couldn't be more pleasant or helpful.

In fact, when you post a tech question to a sonic tech forum, you might just get a response from Dane [Jasper]--the sonic.net CEO

more about Comcast

http://www.dslreports.com/foru...

the Chicago area was even more a odd ball as in the past the old digital pack (that had some of the old analog channels moved to digital along time ago) became preferred or classic. That was before DTA and analog and digital channels having the same number Then (in the city of systems) killed alot of the analog but did not move the channel numbers but the rest of Chicago land lost some analogs to digital where you had to pay more + about $5 per tv for the box.

Start by reading this: http://www.dslreports.com/show... 1. I can. Read the difference between the first and second referenda. See link above. 2. I can and have several times. Two of the three cities were not home rule, thus the State of Illinois require referenda. 3 & 4. It was 10 years ago, and your questions seem to infer that somehow the local gov would use its muni-broadband to spy on its customers? The plant was never built, so discussing specific security configs is complete speculation.

Much of the data is over 10 years old, but here's how we answered the bulk of questions in 2004: http://www.geneva.il.us/index.... 1. No local ISP was created as the referenda did not pass at the polls. 2. See this write up: http://www.dslreports.com/show... 3. Yes. See here for current info - http://www.muninetworks.org/ 4. The first time around in 2003, the build was to be backed using General Obligation bonds (tax-payer backed) and was put on the ballot by the elected officials. When the issue went to the polls the second time in 2004, it was put on the ballot by CITIZENS COLLECTING SIGNATURES and the referenda question specifically blocked any taxpayer exposure (fund it any way you like but there can be no taxpayer risk). It was still spun by the incumbents as being a tax risk.

Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles Illinois. I was a member of the committee that worked on getting this initiative through each community. One of the members posted this interview with Broadband Reports back in the day....

http://www.dslreports.com/show...

Would you have a list or know some of those? It might be something relevant for TFS.

Not off the top of my head, but I do remember Brazil, and Germany making some changes. Canada is doing something similar via pipeda this as well Where the law doesn't cover it, companies are doing it on their own including avoiding routing through the US. For online in Canada see openmedia's bit. Individual ISP's as well have been replying on what they give/send/comply/refuse to do, this is Teksavvy's response.

P.S., Here's some light reading for you.

Additionally, an eyewitness, Edwin Negron, testified regarding Davis’s conduct at Universal Beauty Salon and the adjacent Tae Kwon Do studio. He testified that Davis pointed a gun at his head, pushed a 77 year old woman and Negron’s wife to the ground, and took several items from Negron and others.

Another eyewitness, Antonio Brooks, testified that he confronted Davis and his accomplices outside the Wendy’s restaurant after that robbery and tried to write down the license plate of their getaway car. Brooks testified that Davis fired his gun at him, and that he returned fire towards the car.

I guess we can add attempted murder to his list of accomplishments.

Netflix has already issued a clarification. http://www.dslreports.com/show...

Comcast is trying to spin this as being some kind of big "we won't be a monopoly thanks to this so don't regulate us" concession.

It's effectively carving up the markets between Comcast and Charter, though.

Comcast "gives" Charter 1.4 million subscribers. In addition, Comcast swaps 3 million subscribers in Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Alabama to Charter in exchange for 1.6 million subscribers in "New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Maryland, and some smaller areas contiguous to existing Comcast or Time Warner Cable systems." [Source] Then, about 2.5 million customers will be served by a new company that is run 2/3 by Comcast and 1/3 by Charter.

Effectively, Comcast is "dropping" about 4.5 million customers but what they are really doing is carving up the market with Charter so that each won't need to compete with the other. They'll each stay in their own little geographic area and everyone is happy. (Where "everyone" means the cable companies, of course. Not the customers who will see higher and higher bills with little to no competition.)

My favourite quote comes from Karl Bode of DSLReports:

Before you get too excited, you need to understand that this is a bluff of immense proportion. It's what I affectionately refer to as "fiber to the press release."

In a bit of a clever public relations dance, Cogent has issued a press release stating that while the company refuses to pay companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast new peering tolls, they will pay the costs incurred by those companies to ensure there's adequate capacity at interconnection points. Cogent has been at the heart of more than a few debates over settlement-free peering, usually when the levels of traffic exchanged aren't equal. ...

You think that's bad? Wait until you run across the issue where your ISP doesn't even both to set up basic passwords on your wireless hub.

Ok, now I'm curious!

You think that's bad? Wait until you run across the issue where your ISP doesn't even both to set up basic passwords on your wireless hub.

Netflix is having all these problems because they use Cogent, the cut-rate morons of the transit world...

This has happened hundreds of times, long before they carried Netflix streaming video:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

http://www.complaints.com/2008...

http://publicpolicy.verizon.co...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/s...

https://www.datacenterknowledg...

etc., etc.

Netflix is having all these problems because they use Cogent, the cut-rate morons of the transit world...

This has happened hundreds of times, long before they carried Netflix streaming video:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

http://www.complaints.com/2008...

http://publicpolicy.verizon.co...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/s...

https://www.datacenterknowledg...

etc., etc.

Netflix is having all these problems because they use Cogent, the cut-rate morons of the transit world...

This has happened hundreds of times, long before they carried Netflix streaming video:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

http://www.complaints.com/2008...

http://publicpolicy.verizon.co...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/s...

https://www.datacenterknowledg...

etc., etc.

Summery:
* Teksavvy must reveal identity of alleged infringers.

* TSI gets all legal costs, admin costs & disbursements.
** TSI gets paid before Voltage sees even a single name. No money, no names.**

* Any/all letters from Voltage MUST be approved by both the Court & CIPPIC, so as not to provide false information to defendants, and coerce them into settlements.
* Letter will include a statement that 'no Court has yet found any recipient of the letter liable for infringement and that recipicies should [seek] legal assistance".
* Every letter to an alleged infringer will get a copy of the judge's order.
* Any subscriber can request a full copy of the order, for which the Plaintiff (Voltage) must pay for.

* Voltage will only receive Name & Address attached to specific IP addresses of the alleged infringers, and nothing more.
* There will be a special Judge assigned to this case, and will 'monitor, as necessary, the conduct of Voltage in its dealings with the alleged infringers."

* If Voltage splits a subscriber out of the herd (so to say), the special judge will keep hold of the new case.

* Voltage cannot make statements to the media, releasing defendant names or addresses.

...with little to no mention of the ISPs.

Check out the fairly active thread over at DSL reports vis a vie Comcast subscriber's problems with Netflix including some non answers by a Comcast employee: http://www.dslreports.com/foru...

Comcast *does* compete with Verizon -- directly.

Yet, they are partners:
http://www.verizonwireless.com...

Their FiOS and DSL options are direct competition for both TV and high-speed Internet

You mean the FiOS that they're not going to deploy anymore?
http://gizmodo.com/5503428/ver...

http://www.dslreports.com/show...

Tell me more fantasy of broadband competition. This is fun!

The users at DSLReports Forum or your ISP's subforum there should know. (If not, staff in my ISP's subforum will.) If U-verse is the brand name for AT&T's digital package, it might be useful to read the answer my ISP's COOgave when somebody asked recently whether we can get DSLthrough a third-party ISP when our area is upgraded to U-verse.

I feel the same way you do regarding ISPs, except maybe a bit more extreme, as I don't want to use the phone *or* cable companies. Ifind it worth the speed sacrifice of sticking with 6Mbps/768k to have an old-school ISP that allows servers (even on port 25), includes Usenet access, doesn't cap data or speed-throttle, and so forth.

The users at DSLReports Forum or your ISP's subforum there should know. (If not, staff in my ISP's subforum will.) If U-verse is the brand name for AT&T's digital package, it might be useful to read the answer my ISP's COOgave when somebody asked recently whether we can get DSLthrough a third-party ISP when our area is upgraded to U-verse.

I feel the same way you do regarding ISPs, except maybe a bit more extreme, as I don't want to use the phone *or* cable companies. Ifind it worth the speed sacrifice of sticking with 6Mbps/768k to have an old-school ISP that allows servers (even on port 25), includes Usenet access, doesn't cap data or speed-throttle, and so forth.

The users at DSLReports Forum or your ISP's subforum there should know. (If not, staff in my ISP's subforum will.) If U-verse is the brand name for AT&T's digital package, it might be useful to read the answer my ISP's COOgave when somebody asked recently whether we can get DSLthrough a third-party ISP when our area is upgraded to U-verse.

I feel the same way you do regarding ISPs, except maybe a bit more extreme, as I don't want to use the phone *or* cable companies. Ifind it worth the speed sacrifice of sticking with 6Mbps/768k to have an old-school ISP that allows servers (even on port 25), includes Usenet access, doesn't cap data or speed-throttle, and so forth.