Comments on: Did Comcast Just Admit to Vonage Traffic-shaping? http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonage-traffic-shaping/ The Business of Technology Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Vasy http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonage-traffic-shaping/#comment-891322 Vasy Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:18:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14093#comment-891322 Trying to connect VoIP phone for teleworker user of a private company. VoIP PBX located in the office and connected over dedicated T1 line to the Internet. Purchased 16M/2M Comcast Internet service for that user. No problems with anything but voice. G.729 codec reporting stable 50% packet loss with consistent jitter no more then 5ms BOTH ways. Whole bunch of other people using the same service at the same time without any issues. I don't beleave that connection capable of passing Megabits per second of FTP traffic has any problems to send AND receive 32kbps of RTP traffic. Comcast is sending "a technician" to check connection... Trying to connect VoIP phone for teleworker user of a private company. VoIP PBX located in the office and connected over dedicated T1 line to the Internet. Purchased 16M/2M Comcast Internet service for that user. No problems with anything but voice. G.729 codec reporting stable 50% packet loss with consistent jitter no more then 5ms BOTH ways. Whole bunch of other people using the same service at the same time without any issues. I don’t beleave that connection capable of passing Megabits per second of FTP traffic has any problems to send AND receive 32kbps of RTP traffic. Comcast is sending “a technician” to check connection…

]]> By: Comcast Caught, Denies Blocking Traffic - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonage-traffic-shaping/#comment-888017 Comcast Caught, Denies Blocking Traffic - GigaOM Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:06:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14093#comment-888017 [...] AM PT Comments (0) Comcast has been accused of blocking traffic several times in its history and may have even admitted to more than the straight up P2P blocking we all knew about. But late yesterday, Comcast finally got it’s comeuppance. Sort of. Kevin [...] [...] AM PT Comments (0) Comcast has been accused of blocking traffic several times in its history and may have even admitted to more than the straight up P2P blocking we all knew about. But late yesterday, Comcast finally got it’s comeuppance. Sort of. Kevin [...]

]]> By: Stephan http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonage-traffic-shaping/#comment-887863 Stephan Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:04:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14093#comment-887863 For what little it's worth (sample set = 1), I've been using Vonage as a home office line on my Comcast broadband connection in MD for about 3 years, and it's been rock solid. For what little it’s worth (sample set = 1), I’ve been using Vonage as a home office line on my Comcast broadband connection in MD for about 3 years, and it’s been rock solid.

]]> By: Charles-A Rovira http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonage-traffic-shaping/#comment-887814 Charles-A Rovira Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:02:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14093#comment-887814 ComCast would be happy if you used a string and two tin cans, as long as you buy their new and improved "Crap In A Can", twice, and the new and improved "Emperor Luxury String" (As used in hospitals) as long as you're not expecting they to honor any SLAs. Between them and MaBell (or the demon spawn from their forced divorce who try to throttle traffic by throttling YOU,) it doesn't matter who your dealing with in this country. They're rapidly reaching par with some Soviet-style post office who think if you're in that much of a hurry to get some message across, you must be stealing SOMETHING. Like the pre-Mandela South African cop who shot that country's Olympic athlete who was training for the Marathon because it didn't occur to him that a black man who was running wasn't running away from some crime. ComCast would be happy if you used a string and two tin cans, as long as you buy their new and improved “Crap In A Can”, twice, and the new and improved “Emperor Luxury String” (As used in hospitals) as long as you’re not expecting they to honor any SLAs.

Between them and MaBell (or the demon spawn from their forced divorce who try to throttle traffic by throttling YOU,) it doesn’t matter who your dealing with in this country.

They’re rapidly reaching par with some Soviet-style post office who think if you’re in that much of a hurry to get some message across, you must be stealing SOMETHING.

Like the pre-Mandela South African cop who shot that country’s Olympic athlete who was training for the Marathon because it didn’t occur to him that a black man who was running wasn’t running away from some crime.

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