Comments on: Comcast Can Now Slow Bandwidth Hogs Across Its Network

By: Al-Jazeera, Roku and the Future of Online Video: Online Video News «

Al-Jazeera, Roku and the Future of Online Video: Online Video News « — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:30:38 +0000

[...] in your cable TV also deliver the Internet, and big cable is all too eager to exploit that fact, threatening to throttle or block content they don’t like or that competes with [...]

By: Level 3, Comcast In a Cat Fight Over Online Video: Tech News «

Level 3, Comcast In a Cat Fight Over Online Video: Tech News « — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:59:55 +0000

[...] a slap on the wrist from the Federal Communications Commission for its actions. As a result it changed its network management practices to avoid discriminating against certain types of content on its network. That covers the textbook [...]

By: cmikem

cmikem — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:07:23 +0000

About 16hrs ago I started a file transfer using direct connect to transfer a program from my host server to this computer. I am on Comcast's 7Mbps cable connection. For the first 8hrs or so, the download speed stayed ~500Kbps, because of the multitude of files being sent "P2P style" from the database folders. Around 9am the speed started going down and it has finally leveled off around 15Kbps. I hate to say this, but I am using a friend's connection to get these files, my connection at my home is WildBlue and it doesn't throttle that bad, but it does give the download cap which stinks, and the upload is capped at under 50Kbps. Wish Comcast would just allocate more resources to their servers to increase connections/increase connection bandwidth, ofcourse the only other way is to use business class internet, which is getting cheaper nowadays. I just checked and got a quote for $209/mo for full T1 with free install and free router and only 2yr contract. T-internet does NOT go thru a switch box/ISP router, nor does it get capped/monitored for bandwidth usage. It is a direct connection to the internet "highway", not a "congested onramp". T1 gives you constant 1.536Mbps up and down with no throttling whatsoever. Truthfully, this Comcast is almost $150/mo including the $30/mo cable tv, and they throttle it like this, no good.

By: Federal Court Questions FCC’s Ability to Regulate Broadband

Federal Court Questions FCC’s Ability to Regulate Broadband — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:32:01 +0000

[...] means Comcast will start throttling again, a spokeswoman says the cable provider plans to keep its existing network management plan that slows speeds for heavy users only during times of congestion. The FCC has not yet responded [...]

By: Federal Court Questions FCC’s Ability to Regulate Broadband

Federal Court Questions FCC’s Ability to Regulate Broadband — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:23:17 +0000

By: macromicro

macromicro — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:56:09 +0000

In 2008 I was getting ~800 kb/s from comcast , and now I am lucky to get 50 kb/s. My ping to games was very smooth. Now my ping is spiking up 20 times more than normal weekly for entire days.

They say ‘up to’6mbit download speed, then they throttle you down to less than 1 mbit all of the time when the file or service is taking up too much bandwidth. I hope someone chews them out.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:20:30 +0000

Doesn’t this violate the net neutrality standards? I thought ISPs were not allowed to limit traffic based upon its content or destination? Granted, most p2p traffic consists of illegal/copywrite material, the fact that SOME p2p traffic IS LEGAL says to me that Comcast is in violation of net neutrality standards. Unless Comcast can sift out the illegal downloads from the legal P2P downloads, this seems in violation of neutrality standards.

By: Google Battles ISPs With Technology

Google Battles ISPs With Technology — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:08:18 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | 6:58 PM PT | 3 comments In the war between Google and Internet service providers, Google is trying a new weapon — information. The search giant has teamed up with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and PlanetLab Consortium to create Measurement Labs, a server platform and a series of software tools to measure broadband speeds, whether or not your ISP is filtering BitTorrent traffic and a diagnostic tool for last-mile problems. Coming soon are tests to help a user figure out of their ISP is prioritizing certain traffic in the name of network management (sound familiar?), and if certain users are experiencing degraded traffic. [...]

By: SgtSally

SgtSally — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:42:10 +0000

I have Comcast and the throttle really isn’t the issue. Sure, it may take 30 min. rather than 15 to download something. Either way, after you have it, you got it forever. A little adjustment is no problem.

The REAL issue is their CAP! Since they are promoting more and more videos on their service, it is entirely possible to go over. There is ONE warning then a 1 year ban if you go over. If you watch streaming video via Comcast’s service or another it is entirely possible you will get into trouble and lose your ISP. Many towns, like mine, have no other high speed options.

By: FCC Asks if Comcast Slows Rivals’ VoIP Traffic

FCC Asks if Comcast Slows Rivals’ VoIP Traffic — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:26:56 +0000

[...] Higginbotham | Monday, January 19, 2009 | 7:26 PM PT | 0 comments Looks like Comcast’s new network management plan is drawing the ire of competing Voice over IP providers and the scrutiny of federal regulators. The [...]

By: ahcapella

ahcapella — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:19:36 +0000

My thanks to this website for this article. I don’t usually monitor my download speeds, and was unaware that Comcast was punishing average users this way! I don’t grab many downloads–certainly not huge ones. But I do like to play Second Life from time to time, and I’m sure it’s a bandwidth eater. Would AT&T broadband be faster and fairer? I’d *love* to dump the Comcast demon-monolith, but I don’t want to downgrade to a slower isp either.

By: SwitchingToFios

SwitchingToFios — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:56:07 +0000

Comcast has throttled me from 780kbps to 70kbps at 5:00am. This is NOT peak download time. My speeds are 10% of normal. I am not even using p2p, never do. As soon as FIOS comes to my area, I’m dumping Comcast. They lie, they are not doing this during peak periods. They do it whenever they want. Suggest everyone switch to alternative services if possible so we can stop being treated like criminals and get the service we are paying for.

By: Comcast removes blocks on file sharing | Compaholics.com

Comcast removes blocks on file sharing | Compaholics.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:25:56 +0000

[...] This article over at gigaom.com states that this new system is content-agnostic. The bandwidth for heavy Comcast users is [...]

By: Gusto

Gusto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:10:07 +0000

Comcast throttles my access down to cheap DSL speed 24/7. It will start out fast for the first few seconds or MBs then go straight down to cheap DSL speed (750kbps) when downloading ANYTHING over some predetermined size. I assume their thinking is that as long as they don’t throttle to below the competition’s cheapest speed, people won’t dump them. Their choking process is extremely predictable and could be charted I’m sure. The only way I’ve found around this is to momentarily pause & continue a download as soon as the speed drops to below 800 or so repeatedly (easy to do & monitor w/Firefox) so the speed shoots back up when it continues. This maintains a higher average speed.

Comcast claims they only do it for people abusing bandwidth. I don’t watch online movies or consume real time media like that. I’m not some power user. The most I do is to download a few Linux distros to try out every month.

This is really annoying especially considering how much they tout their speed, which they should disclaim to note that you only get that for a few megabytes then the choke comes on.

On large files like an ISO, I used to download them faster back when their service was advertised as less than 2MB/s using my old cable modem & router, both sped’d @ 10MB/s, not gigabit gear.

It’s all smoke & mirrors to let the sheeple think they’ve got broadband.

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:54 +0000

Agreed…if they’d be more up front about their procedure, I wouldn’t care as much. I mean, I WANT them to crack down on real bandwidth hogs; you know, the guys that sit around with 2-3 computers downloading pirated/cracked videos and music 24 hours a day from newsgroups and the like, but I want a transparent process where I know how they’re calculating the throttling and when its going to happen.

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:41 +0000

The more I hear about the things Comcast is doing the more irritated I get. Its really funny how Comcast is promoting their online videos like Fancast.
“We want you to watch more movies online!! however we are going to limit and throttle your bandwidth.”

Thank you for using Comcast.