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Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

Hello_Newman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:01:42 EDT

Before you shout class action, what's going to happen is the lawyers are made into double digit millionaires and every gets a check for .67 cents to compensate them for measured bandwidth losses. Or more likely they'll get a free day or two of service if they are still customers, or maybe a nice voucher for a 100mb download?

Hello_Newman

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

Pender — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:55:31 EDT

@CarbonatedWater: You say that like it's a bad thing!

Pender

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

UofITom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:03:31 EDT

Within the past month, Comcast in Chicago seems to have STARTED throttling P2P. It's only really noticeable during prime time, but as the hours tick over, you can watch the speed jump up in 100KB/s increments.

UofITom

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

hagrun — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:50:14 EDT

Comcast probably doesn't want any of us to know the truth. The best tactic to achieve that is to lie and say oh wait we lied and keep everyone guessing. I know it sounds a little conspiracy-ish, but it seems feasible to me.

hagrun

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

kylo4 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:21:46 EDT

Thanks for posting this Matt, in my opinion it shows you really care about your readers and you want to show them that you're as fact checking and reliable as possible. You could have easily made little mention of this but instead you wanted to make sure everybody knew what they had done. Good on you!

kylo4

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

johnson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:49:21 EDT

This can be solved the American Way: Class Action Litigation.

...everyone loves mass tort.

johnson

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

bryantracy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:19:12 EDT

Forget peer to peer - how about not supporting VPN from home? Dropped VPN connection every 30 seconds!!

Comcast sucked 1/2 of a Saturday (site visit) and two one hour phone sessions before quietly admitting
they do not support VPN.

back to DSL i go....

bryantracy

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

fastmike — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:59:43 EDT

I wasnt born a cynic but the older I get the more I think most company, corporation's mission statement is ....WE aim to drain....and thats our wallets folks

fastmike

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

packetsniffer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:39:08 EDT

@jackfrost132:
I like your kind of capitalism.

packetsniffer

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

packetsniffer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:38:30 EDT

@dead_red_eyes:
Do they all share a collective dick, or does each Comcastard have his own individual dick?

packetsniffer

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

mhlaxp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:57:31 EDT

Dear god, Comcast, how can you even think you're in the right ballpark on your actions if they're making people say "FUCK YEAH, FCC!"

Recently I've been automatically checking my speeds. If they are consistently below what Comcast has promised me, I'm going to demand compensation. If a lot of people do it, perhaps we can change something.

Of course, by the time THAT pans out I'll have switched, so who knows.

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Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

dead_red_eyes — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:45:58 EDT

@ MATT - "Two points though: If they were lying about P2P practices, should they be in charge of a P2P Bill of Rights?"

No, no they shouldn't. Fuck Comcast, and their smelly dick.

dead_red_eyes

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

jackfrost132 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:27:48 EDT

@packetsniffer: Yeah, Matt is quickly becoming one of my more favoured Editors. If he was on board with more of my evil schemes involving selling battered mice to hobos, then perhaps he could take the crown.

jackfrost132

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

packetsniffer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:15:39 EDT

"but Republicans are obviously not chill with that at all (since they don't like business regulation, generally speaking, not to provoke a political argument here)."
I just wanted to thank you, Matt, for being the only person on the Giz staff who has ever been fair and balanced. :^)

packetsniffer

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

TonyTriple — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:12:52 EDT

I'm glad that someone is smelling Comcast's dick. I knew they've been doing more dirt than the news has been reporting...

TonyTriple

Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

Rex Luna — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:54:13 EDT

Does this mean that they will be trying to "crack down" on news group usage as well?

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Did Comcast Lie to Me About Slowing Down P2P Traffic?

CarbonatedWater — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:47:54 EDT

Comcast sucks the penis.

CarbonatedWater