Comments on: FCC to Punish Comcast in Internet Probe

By: Anotherjoe

Anotherjoe — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:09:09 +0000

You might not know this, and you might not care. What I’m not asking you is to care, I am however asking that you pay attention two what is happening with your own internet provider. First they make small changes, and no one notices. Than they might take away a site or two. Small disagreement but nothing big enough to make anyone act against it. One by one they will all start to control what, where and how you browse the internet. Pretty soon its full of sites that only sponsor companies that pay the ISP or are affiliated with it. You must understand the sincerity of this. The internet is the only free speaking-uncontrolled media we can create & change. Don’t let them take it from us as they did the TV Stations.

By: sikanrong

sikanrong — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:34:12 +0000

VICTORY!!! Eat my you know what, comcast!! Holy crap, i seriously want to go get a big cake and some beer and just party-down right now. They deserved this *so* much, I hope the FCC will continue to take action against unlawful blocking of sites/services like this. As for the previous comment, cox is actually a bit more sinister about blocking competitive sites (cox has blocked craigslist for 3 months now, because it draws from their own online classifieds traffic). So, hopefully COX will feel the wrath of the FCC next. HOORAY!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:39:00 +0000

I don’t use P2P services, but I spend a lot of time reading Usenet newsgroups. I just discovered that after you’ve downloaded 2 gigabytes from Usenet, Comcast blocks all Usenet access until the 25th of the following month. No error message. Comcast’s news server just silently ignores all requests. Comcast online support also ignores queries about Usenet while you’re blocked, so I had to find this by digging through the FAQ files.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:06:22 +0000

Comcast and many others do monitor bandwidth, but I can’t see why for what they charge for internet access. I am not a fan of Comcast compared to the three companies I had before I moved from New York (Optimum Online) and Las Vegas (COX). By far the best in service and speed was Optimum Online.

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:15:30 +0000

I can see why the service providers would want to watch their bandwidth, but there are better ways to do it. I’m sure they aren’t the only ones doing it.