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P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments

Posted by kdawson on from the do-not-fiddle-my-bits dept.

Not Comcastic writes "Two weeks after officially opening proceedings on Comcast's BitTorrent throttling, angry users are bombarding the FCC with comments critical of the cable provider's practices. 'On numerous occasions, my access to legal BitTorrent files was cut off by Comcast,' a systems administrator based in Indianapolis wrote to the FCC shortly after the proceeding began. 'During this period, I managed to troubleshoot all other possible causes of this issue, and it was my conclusion (speaking as a competent IT administrator) that this could only be occurring due to direct action at the ISP (Comcast) level.' Another commenter writes 'I have experienced this throttling of bandwidth in sharing open-source software, e.g. Knoppix and Open Office. Also I see considerable differences in speed ftp sessions vs. html. They are obviously limiting speed in ftp as well.'"

11 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. Well, whatever. by croddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, whatever. It's not like their throttling has affec@G#TG%2yv24*SA$FNO CARRIER

    1. Re:Well, whatever. by operagost · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have only one thing to say to that:

      +++

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  2. Here we come Verizon by Bryansix · · Score: 2, Funny

    You it's really bad when you have to flee TO Verizon. Trust me, these people are horribly incompetent and have horrible customer service. Nevermind that their various departments just cannot talk to each other. If you have phone service and Internet through them good luck getting either taken care of even though they are on the same damn bill. Still moving to Verizon might actually be the only option left (shudders).

    1. Re:Here we come Verizon by TheLinuxSRC · · Score: 3, Funny

      (Unless I'm mistaken and contractions are considered a single word even though it is made up of two words.)

      Please turn in your grammar-nazi badge at the door.

      In traditional grammar, a contraction is the formation of a new word from one or more individual words. -- This is the very first sentence in the referenced article by the way.

    2. Re:Here we come Verizon by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Funny

      Shoot me for wasting 1 minute of my life reading this grammar nazi debate.

  3. Giant wake-up call for Comcast? by Duncan+Blackthorne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't stop the signal, Mal. ;-)

  4. Re:FCC vs. CSR by sdjc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but the personal trauma caused by having to be put on hold until you take up their valuable time on the line is beyond my threshold for pain!

  5. Re:Failure of the natural monopoly by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's trying to say Tux Racer isn't a game...

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  6. Re:Industry move by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Funny

    "and it wasn't clogged with porn and javascript? "

    *sigh* I know. Wasn't it a magical time when the internet was ALL porn and NO javascript??

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  7. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is a terrible idea. Your analogy falls flat when you realize that the Internet isn't a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  8. Re:fortunately by stormguard2099 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if you are stuck on Cable, like me, On behalf of everyone who is stuck on dialup without the option of dsl or cable I would just like to say I hope your cable wraps around your throat and chokes the life out of you. have a nice day :)
    disclaimer: this post was made out of jest. Any offense taken from it will be ignored.
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