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    Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    01/05/09

    In reply to Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
    Sooooo basically, you can only use 100% of your bandwith for 15 minutes. total shit.


    In theory, you need to buy a package from them that gives you 43% more bandwith than you actually needed. Let's say you knew you only needed 1,000kb/sec in transfer. You could use your router to limit your speeds at this level, and subscribe to a plan that would give you 1,429 kb/sec in transfer. But this means that you aren't using 30% of the bandwith that you are paying for, and i doubt their plans work like this

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    Image of Hardcore1 Hardcore1
    01/05/09

    In reply to Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
    FIOS DESTROYS COMCAST. The unfamiliar noise you hear Comcast is the sound of competition. Suck it. That is all.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/05/09

    @Hardcore1: God dammit. For a second, I thought you wrote "FIRE DESTROYS COMCAST."


    Well, a girl can dream...

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    01/05/09

    In reply to Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
    Hey. It's not stupid. It's... COMCASTIC!
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    Image of piano08man piano08man
    01/05/09

    @admoseremic:


    try comdrastic

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/05/09

    @piano08man: And the way it works is comspastic.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/05/09

    @admoseremic: Whoever invented the term "Comcastic" needs to be fired.
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    Image of Eauboy Eauboy
    01/05/09

    In reply to Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
    Is this what Jack Bauer is trying to shut down in the new season of 24?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/05/09

    @Eauboy: So far, it looks like he's fighting a writer's strike. What's up with no plot and only 1 or 2 PEW PEWs per hour.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/05/09

    In reply to Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
    So basically, you're saying that heavy users of Skype and iChat are screwed.
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    Image of adhir adhir
    01/05/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: skype/ichat aren't going to utilize 70% of your bandwidth, typically 5+ megabits with comcast. this should only affect heavy downloaders in practice.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/05/09

    @adhir: Video can be a hog though. Which along with the other crap I run...
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