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Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling
negRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to disclose the details of its 'unreasonable network management practices' to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released its full, 67-page Order. As FCC Chair Kevin Martin said it would, the Commission's Order rejects the ISP giant's insistence that its handling of peer-to-peer applications was necessary. 'We conclude that the company's discriminatory and arbitrary practice unduly squelches the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet,' the agency declares." And from reader JagsLive comes news that Comcast has a different plan in place to deal with heavy bandwidth users: slow traffic for up to 20 minutes at a time to users who are grabbing the most bits.
For everyone who hates Comcast so much go out and try to get a different cable company in say Time Warner Cable. Even if they are not better they will send a message that you don't like comcast, and if TimeWarner was smart and realize wow these people really fought hard against bad service, perhaps we should make sure our service is better. If not do it again, say with Cablevision (if they are still around) Going Boo Hoo on slashdot does nothing. You need to go out knock on some doors talk to your local politicians, etc... To get change. You can whine and complain all you want all you are is a dissatisfied minority to comcast, if you get people and government behind you then you are a force.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Martin: Will you pretty please stop throttling packets?
Comcast: NO
Martin: Aw come on..
Comcast: NO
Martin: I'll be your friend..
What a joke, FCC commissioners should have technical prowess. Not a bunch of dimwitted retards who know NOTHING about the underlying technology they oversee.
"I bow to no man" - Riddick