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Comcast to Stop Hampering File-Sharing
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Bleh... That's only what the really paranoid believe. I use an ipfilter too and have had no problems. I DID get a warning letter when the teenage kid used limewire to download a movie though!
But don't most of us have residential service which says no things like webservers in the EULA? Won't using those ports heavily get them interested in you anyway?
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We have Verizon and Comcast here as our main vendors. Don't think one has to guess twice to identify which ISP I have.
Do you have Verizon? I've heard good things, but if you have it, what do you think of it? I'd like to hear it from someone who's had them firsthand. Pricing, speeds, throttling, etc. just for comparison to Comcastic.
Isnt there some FCC law stating something, about how customers have the right to use services they choose/want?
Yeah, us cable customers will take our buisness elsewhere... To PeoplePC, perhaps? They were happy to provide me with up to 36.6Kb/s of bandwidth. Though, you had to use their dialer, and they dropped your connection every 2-3 hours. Not that big of a deal, until you consider that by the time you load hardforum and newegg, 2 hours has gone by.
If ISPs were required to tell you exactly what you were offered, how much you could use, when you could use it, what you could use it with, and had to inform everyone of what they were doing, such as throttling/proxying/NATing, etc. That would be nice. My power/water company calls me or sends me a letter if they are going to shut off some water mains, which might leave me with little or no water. I get calls or letters if there will be a blackout or brownout for any reason, due to something the power-company is doing (repair work, usually) Though, that wont ever happen. My ISP doesnt give two shits if their DNS servers are down, if the network is so overwhelmed that I cant even use email or google... oh well.
Internet is one thing, but television... They couldnt just leave it alone, could they? I have the comquack digital package, and... I cant even begin to describe what I see. I think i would see a less distorted picture, taking a massive hit of LSD and watching tv over rabbit ears, than I do with the digital service. Horrible colour banding (actual colour banding, as in a band of fuggin colours where a cloud should have been). I dont have any way of getting a capture/recording of what I see, but its sort of like... if you converted a high-quality PNG/JPG over to a 256 colour/8-bit .GIF, not dithered... thats what im talking about, pure crap. Discovery HD was the worst, when they had some animal show about africa... I asked myself, is that supposed to be the sky, behind the british narrator, or was that a finger-painting done by a toddler?
Some of the channels are worse than youtube videos, its sad. Not that its better (although it is worse than) satellite, but I would expect "high definition" channels to be more so than what a camera-phone video would have.
Anyways... Nothing new, typical BS.
LOL I hope that was sarcasm.
Yeah, us cable customers will take our buisness elsewhere... To PeoplePC, perhaps? They were happy to provide me with up to 36.6Kb/s of bandwidth. Though, you had to use their dialer, and they dropped your connection every 2-3 hours. Not that big of a deal, until you consider that by the time you load hardforum and newegg, 2 hours has gone by.
[H]ocusPocus;1032283149 said:
If ISPs were required to tell you exactly what you were offered, how much you could use, when you could use it, what you could use it with, and had to inform everyone of what they were doing, such as throttling/proxying/NATing, etc. That would be nice. My power/water company calls me or sends me a letter if they are going to shut off some water mains, which might leave me with little or no water. I get calls or letters if there will be a blackout or brownout for any reason, due to something the power-company is doing (repair work, usually) Though, that wont ever happen. My ISP doesnt give two shits if their DNS servers are down, if the network is so overwhelmed that I cant even use email or google... oh well.
Internet is one thing, but television... They couldnt just leave it alone, could they? I have the comquack digital package, and... I cant even begin to describe what I see. I think i would see a less distorted picture, taking a massive hit of LSD and watching tv over rabbit ears, than I do with the digital service. Horrible colour banding (actual colour banding, as in a band of fuggin colours where a cloud should have been). I dont have any way of getting a capture/recording of what I see, but its sort of like... if you converted a high-quality PNG/JPG over to a 256 colour/8-bit .GIF, not dithered... thats what im talking about, pure crap. Discovery HD was the worst, when they had some animal show about africa... I asked myself, is that supposed to be the sky, behind the british narrator, or was that a finger-painting done by a toddler?
Some of the channels are worse than youtube videos, its sad. Not that its better (although it is worse than) satellite, but I would expect "high definition" channels to be more so than what a camera-phone video would have.
Anyways... Nothing new, typical BS.