Tag Archives: Comcast
Comcast Gone Wild!
According to Comcast it was a mistake in their test of the Emergency Alert System. During an early morning broadcast of Good Friday Mass at the Vatican, something went wrong and a 30-second ad of “Girls Gone Wild” appeared. It seems to be more than a glitch, but maybe someone hacked into the system and [...]
Full StoryComcast Turns it Up!
If you are a current High Speed Internet subscriber than you may have been upgraded with blazing fast internet speeds and you never knew it. Comcast has turned it up a notch offering speeds of up to 50 MBS! If you are currently a High Speed Internet customer, you may want to test your upload [...]
Full StoryComcast Boosts its Bandwidth Speed
Starting in December, Oregon and Southwest Washington Comcast customers will have a much-faster option called “Extreme 50 service” This service is capable of download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second. Comcast calls it “wideband”, but its technical term is known as DOCSIS 3.0. This will be a dream for those who have a [...]
Full StoryComcast Offering Faster Internet Speeds
Comcast is beginning to wake up and only because FIOS is in full swing from Verizon, which breaks the speed barrier. You can visit Verizon on the various packages they currently offer. (AP) – Comcast Corp. on Wednesday said it will begin rolling out faster Internet speeds over the next few weeks in selected markets [...]
Full StoryComcast Flexing Muscle Again
Comcast will put a cap on all customers’ internet usage on October 1st, 2008. Customers will have a 250 GB data monthly cap. 250 GB is a lot of data transfer considering the average customer uses 2 to 3 GB per Month. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today (Techmeme). [...]
Full StoryComcast at it again!
After getting in hot water over the BitTorrent allegation – Comcast’s new form of network management will kick in when it identifies a single user “disproportionately” consuming network resources and will move to throttle their connection for a short while. “If in fact a person is generating enough packets that they’re the ones creating that [...]
Full StoryIt’s about time Comcast!
Comcast and NetZero have agreed to block access to bulletin boards and Web sites that distribute child pornography. The only question I have, is why did this take so long? Do either of these large corporations care for our children? No matter what, I will no longer be a customer of Comcast. The companies are [...]
Full StoryFCC Smacks Comcast for P2P Throttling
More bad news for the “Bad News Bears of ISP’s” Comcast gets smacked by the FCC for foul play. FCC Chair Kevin Martin announced his support for sanctions against Comcast, penalties looked inevitable. The two Democrats on the Commission, long supportive of network neutrality, seemed set to vote along with Martin and punish Comcast for [...]
Full StoryComcast Moves Slowly Over Child Porn
Comcast has been in the media a lot lately over their lack of speed over censorship regarding child porn. I am starting to believe that the powers of Comcast maybe targeting children themselves, why else would they move so slow on an issue to protect our children? Last month most major internet service providers signed [...]
Full StoryFCC to Punish Comcast in Internet Probe
(Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday he will recommend that Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet, The Associated Press reported. Comcast, the second largest U.S. Internet service provider, has been accused of blocking [...]
Full StoryVerizon to Comcast: “Say Hello to 50Mbps FIOS”
Verizon is currently upgrading all speeds for its FIOS (Fiber-Optic-Service) with speeds to 50Mbps US-wide. This will give users in 16 states the same speeds that were previously reserved only for the most competitive areas. All of FIOS 16 states now have access to up to 50Mbps downloads with 20Mbps uploads at the highest-end, $140 [...]
Full StoryComcast not so Comcastic!
Comcast’s web site was hacked by “elul21 coll1er seven“. The hacker or hackers, apparently changed the sites DNS servers at Network Solutions so that the traffic would re-direct to another page located in Germany according to Comcast. I find this amusing as this is the largest Internet Service Provider in the United States. How can [...]
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