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Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-completely-shocked dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A kind soul known as Backdoor Santa has posted graphs purportedly showing traffic through TATA, one of Comcast's transit providers. The graphs of throughput for a day and month, respectively, show that Comcast chooses to run congested links rather than buy more capacity. Keeping their links full may ensure that content providers must pay to colocate within Comcast's network. The graphs also show a traffic ratio far from 1:1, which has implications for the validity of its arguments with Level (3) last month."

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  1. Universal Health, I mean, Internet Care? by bagboy · · Score: -1, Troll

    So - Internet access is Universal Healthcare now? Comcast is a business designed to make profit yes? Best way to make profit in the internet business is to maximize your resources. A 100 percent full pipe is an efficient use of their resource. Geeze, slashdot is so full of whiners and babies it sickens me. Nothing prevents you from shelling out the dough to buy a dedicated 1:1 ratio pipe from a Tier 1 or 2 provider. Oh, wait, it costs to much? Then stop your bellyachin'

    1. Re:Universal Health, I mean, Internet Care? by bagboy · · Score: -1, Troll

      I disagree. Everyone has a choice in the US. It is not Comcast's fault that your (an individual's) pockets are not deep enough to build your own infrastructure. Again, they are a business - internet access is not a right. Over the last decade I've watched as the tide has swung from the "I'll work hard to get what I want in life" attitude to the "Society owes me something" attitude.

    2. Re:Universal Health, I mean, Internet Care? by bagboy · · Score: -1, Troll

      As I engineer an ISP network, I'll tell you up front that there is no such thing as 95 percent. Users ALWAYS will consume what is available. Been there, done that.

    3. Re:Universal Health, I mean, Internet Care? by bagboy · · Score: 0, Troll

      Except users don't bitch about access during the low points... Right?

    4. Re:Universal Health, I mean, Internet Care? by bagboy · · Score: -1, Troll

      No - you pay for high speed ACCESS to the internet. Not a high speed connection to the internet, that would be a tier 1 or 2 connection.