<![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:50:38 EDT Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:50:38 EDT http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4935876 is this web cite for people that are stuck in some best of their year era...hehehehe...troops move forward

o0oceanwaters

]]> 4:373162:c4935876 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:50:38 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4934569 I love that picture, one of the best album cover ever!!!

Dr_Blip

]]> 4:373162:c4934569 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:15:00 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4918332 I'm a comcast user and a heavy torrent user. I abuse the hell out of my 16/2 connection and have not experienced any throttling - I don't know if its because I use private sites, encrypt my connections, cuz im in the tristate (very competitive market), or what. I really hope they don't start throttling me...

FiOS is available in my area, and comcast discounts A LOT if you threaten to switch (they cut the monthly price by over 50% for me)

Kizler

]]> 4:373162:c4918332 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:29:52 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4914138 I love how "net neutrality" was termed to make it sound like something we should actually want. The only thing worse than businesses controlling the internet is the government controlling it. They'll step in under the auspices of "saving" us from those nasty corporate types, and then we'll begin to see indecency lawsuits, taxes, etc. Careful what you wish for when it comes to "net neutrality", particularly when that "neutrality" is government enforced.

nickexperience

]]> 4:373162:c4914138 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:54:56 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912460 @BlindKarma: The cable modems act an meters only in the sense that they have a unique MAC address that identifies all traffic associated with your connection. Their switches are mostly likely programmed to track bandwidth consumption associated with each MAC address; not really hard to do with the industrial switches from Cisco, etc.

Accelerata

]]> 4:373162:c4912460 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:07:56 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912458 @tricky69:
I'm thinking that if you're one of the infringers they will have data linking superfluous amounts of data to your modem. I would imagine (hope?) that you would only be limited if somewhere up the pipes there was a clog. But I could just be completely full of it.


josejuan05

]]> 4:373162:c4912458 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:03:33 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912385 These guys should just "Have a Cigar" and calm down/settle.

kylo4

]]> 4:373162:c4912385 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:13:53 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912244 @AJ_Syrinx: That would be the cover of Pink Floyd's - Wish You Were Here.

soggy_cheerio

]]> 4:373162:c4912244 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:01:18 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912211 The pic and caption are great. What movie or TV show is it from?

AJ_Syrinx

]]> 4:373162:c4912211 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:43:29 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4912036 @LastAndLeast:

I agree, mate. 100%.

as for the Giz Post: Ughh!! But as said before, at least they are honest and open about it.

aaj111

]]> 4:373162:c4912036 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:46:01 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4911818 I just wish someone would force accurate advertising of internet speeds. That whole "up to 10Mb" is BS. If you offer a 5Mb service and a 10Mb service then the 10Mb should be guaranteed to be at least 5Mb most of the time.

/rant

LastAndLeast

]]> 4:373162:c4911818 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:55:35 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4910985 Once again, as long as Comcast is open and honest about what they are doing, they can and should do whatever they want. It is the sneaking around cutting traffic that upsets me. You have to be honest with your customers, and then they can make up their mind whether they want to continue to be customers or not.

Monty

]]> 4:373162:c4910985 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:20:07 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4910929 @tricky69: I was wondering the same thing... I just wonder if the cable modems they provide can act as meters.

BlindKarma

]]> 4:373162:c4910929 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:06:48 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4910851 "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here."

In the end, as long as we are vigilant and vocal, these restrictions will go the way of Prohibition. Today it is P2P, down the line it will be something else. Eventually, either the telecoms will get tired or we will.

DeadWriter

]]> 4:373162:c4910851 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:55:17 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4910579 Exactly at what level would they be monitoring the bandwidth? Building, local, regional, national?

tricky69

]]> 4:373162:c4910579 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:20:25 EDT <![CDATA[Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks]]> http://gizmodo.com/373162/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks#c4910443 The phrase, "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally" comes to mind.

regnez

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