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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing
An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."
...I wanted to have First Post but I had to find an available proxy to get through my ISP's traffic shaping technology
Triple play! Where you get your phone, internet, and television all on one bill! Next up! Comcast Quadruple Play! Where you get the bill for the complete STD test after Comcast finishes pwning you in the ass too!
'Number-memorizing Chinese people.'-Anon
NOT COMCASTIC
Just use gopher.
Ah, you must be new here. All *I* got from reading the /. headline was 'Comcast are evil, fire insults at will.'
By the way, that $1.99 credit to your account constitutes a "change of service"...
Sound like me. My housing arrangements have been based around broadband availability since i moved out on my own. I probably have it as a slightly higher priority than is reasonable though.
"Oh, I can get 50MB/s broadband here? Of course I'd love to live under this bridge...on the train tracks....next to the paper mill...downwind of the sewage treatment plant."
Don't worry, they won't read it.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
they shouldn't have advertised it as such in the first place.
I think you're confused as to what advertising is.
From Wikipedia: Advertising is a form of communication whose purpose is to lie and deceive potential customers into handing over money for a product or service. Tactics used in advertising include... flat out lies, false claims of superiority over competing products and/or services, meaningless awards and testimonials to improve the image of products and/or services, exaggerating capabilities of products or services with the intent of getting around to providing said features or services at some point in the distant future maybe if they can be bothered, using spokespersons from a totally unrelated industry (usually entertainment related) to increase the appeal of the product or service.
Who needs a life if you can get decent broadband speeds. Maybe it's the ones who have a life that are the introverted IMers?
As a FiOS user (and very satisfied, aside from the port 80 blocking) I don't really care, but as a former Comcast customer and for those of you that are locked into Comcast...
Comcast has their own "Comcastic!" word for describing the Comccast experience. Why not turn it into a sarcastic meme of "fantasic!". Better yet, with specific application to losing bits.
Examples:
My Hard-drive crashed. Comcastic!
We had a Comcastic terminator on this 10base-2 cable which was causing the problem.
I sent they money, but western union got a bit Comcastic.
Steven Hawking thinks black holes have Comcastic properties.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
If you want to find a neighborhood with FIOS, just follow their truck around until it stops somewhere. Thats how I found the Sunnyvale, CA post office.