Comments on: Comcast Cable CTO: Bandwidth Hogs Will Experience Slowdowns

By: 80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:54:12 +0000

[...] as the one 80legs is offering is pretty interesting. Since the pipes delivering the web to users can become congested at certain times of the day, finding programs and applications to take advantage of underutilized bandwidth would seem to be a [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:39:27 +0000

I think we're all forgetting that Comcast charges egregious amounts for internet service and obviously spends next to nothing on customer service. They also outsource tech support so they're not paying a premium there either. My point is that there's no real reason why Comcast can't provide virtually unlimited bandwidth for everyone.

Think of it this way: Comcast moves into an area and spends X on setting up their bandwidth infrastructure. Now, imagine that they've covered an entire city. Every time they moved into a new part of town they had to have X amount of money to spend on setting up that infrastructure. After they've covered the whole city, they continue to make money that they would normally have spent on moving into new areas except now the whole city is covered. That money can now be used to add bandwidth to the areas they cover.

The money is there. Comcast could be offering unlimited bandwidth if they wanted to but since they have no real competition in most areas where they are, they don't have to.

By: Meter This! » Time Warner Expands Metered Broadband Rollout by Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:02:15 +0000

[...] money from their broadband pipes, generally in the name of needing to upgrade the network or to stop bandwidth hogs. But in truth, caps and tiered plans are about limiting competition (especially from online [...]

By: More Time Warner cusotmers to get usage caps |

More Time Warner cusotmers to get usage caps | — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:56:45 +0000

By: Time Warner Expands Metered Broadband Rollout

Time Warner Expands Metered Broadband Rollout — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:16:01 +0000

By: Can you stop piracy? No. But you can slow it down BIG time. « Serendipity 2008

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:10:45 +0000

[...] to your home an incredibly frustrating experience. And, this will happen, eventually…. read this. (Thanks [...]

By: Comcast Can Now Slow Bandwidth Hogs Across Its Network

Comcast Can Now Slow Bandwidth Hogs Across Its Network — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:03:18 +0000

[...] which got in trouble with the FCC for its P2P-throttling approach to network management, has now completed its plan that deals with bandwidth hogs by slowing all broadband traffic for heavy Internet users during times of network congestion. The nation’s largest cable [...]

By: 10 Stories That Defined Broadband in 2008

10 Stories That Defined Broadband in 2008 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:01:20 +0000

[...] and with their video franchises threatened, newly independent Time Warner Cable and Comcast embraced the concept of metered broadband. Phone companies joined in, and now we are faced with a rather [...]

By: T-Mobile Appears to Be Set To Throttle G1 Users | Technologizer

T-Mobile Appears to Be Set To Throttle G1 Users | Technologizer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:36:53 +0000

[...] all: News You’d think T-Mobile would have learned from all the hubbub surrounding the Comcast bandwidth throttling mess, and Rogers’ fights with Canadian customers over its paltry iPhone 3G plans. Customers want [...]

By: Comcast Installs Speed Bumps for Bandwidth Hogs - GigaOM

Comcast Installs Speed Bumps for Bandwidth Hogs - GigaOM — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:10:20 +0000

[...] than 1 percent of its users. As expected the plan hews closely to what Om wrote about back in March in an interview with Comcast CTO Tony Werner. Essentially, folks using a lot of bandwidth at any one time will see their traffic slowed [...]

By: NBT: Network Cap, una pessima idea presente e futura

NBT: Network Cap, una pessima idea presente e futura — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:13:23 +0000

[...] maggior parte dei cap sono imposti in nome del network management, ma non si può negare che creano benefici economici per gli [...]

By: Can P4P Solve Bandwidth Bloat? - GigaOM

Can P4P Solve Bandwidth Bloat? - GigaOM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:21:24 +0000

[...] Compressing or managing data more efficiently is becoming increasingly important as providers attempt to clamp down on large amounts of traffic while consumers and corporations demand ever more bandwidth intensive [...]

By: FCC Punts on Network Neutrality - GigaOM

FCC Punts on Network Neutrality - GigaOM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:14:56 +0000

[...] year to stop its existing network managment practices, and tell its subscribers more about what the new network managment practices might entail. However, the FCC did not fine Comcast. Comcast said in a statement issued this morning: “We [...]

By: On BitTorrent, FCC Chastises Comcast - GigaOM

On BitTorrent, FCC Chastises Comcast - GigaOM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:52:57 +0000

[...] you know I don’t care much for Comcast’s traffic managing ways — having written about it time and again — but this just seeks like an opportunistic and populist-baiting move [...]

By: Comcast Clarifies Its Network Management Efforts Again - GigaOM

Comcast Clarifies Its Network Management Efforts Again - GigaOM — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:26:50 +0000

[...] that 90 percent of P2P upload traffic isn’t managed at all. And by the end of this year, as Om has detailed, Comcast plans to shift the way it manages its network to slow down those using unreasonable [...]

By: Comcast Caught, Denies Blocking Traffic - GigaOM

Comcast Caught, Denies Blocking Traffic - GigaOM — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:58:12 +0000

[...] already know how Comcast plans to manage its network because Comcast CTO Tony Werner told Om how bandwdith hogs would experience slowdowns. In an emailed statement, Comcast spokeswoman Sena Fitzmaurice denied the traffic blocking. [...]