FCC Says Comcast Blocking Was Widespread

[HardOCP News]

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had some pretty harsh things to say about Comcast, the company’s throttling of P2P files and its excuse that it only throttled traffic in times of high network congestion .

“It does not appear that this technique was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time,” Martin told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. “Based on testimony we’ve received thus far, this equipment was typically deployed over a wider geographic area or system, and is not even capable of knowing when an individual … segment of the network is congested.”

 

[Grimlaking]

That right there is GOLDEN. Comcast.. welcome to regulation. Welcome to having to be HONEST with your consumers!! Sigh.. sadly this probably will not stick.

 

[Exavior]

What Comcast lied? No, that would never happen.

 

[Fharakin]

big surprise there...no really, big surprise

 

[Fuzzy Logik]

So can we send the Comcast board members, executives, CEOs , VPs, ect... to Guantanamo Bay to be water boarded for terrorist activity?

I mean, they are jeopardizing our American Way of Life.

 

[bicycle_wreck]

So can we send the Comcast board members, executives, CEOs , VPs, ect... to Guantanamo Bay to be water boarded for terrorist activity?

I mean, they are jeopardizing our American Way of Life.

They are, in fact, terrorists.

 

[bfellow]

Because of this atrocity, today I announce the forming of the Grand Army of the FCC.

 

[Martyr]

So can we send the Comcast board members, executives, CEOs , VPs, ect... to Guantanamo Bay to be water boarded for terrorist activity?

I mean, they are jeopardizing our American Way of Life.

our president would be first in line if we could do that

 

[w1ngzer0]

our president would be first in line if we could do that

isn't there some "law" that prevents the trail of him?

 

[Methadras]

And yet nothing will be done.

 

[Fuzzy Logik]

And yet nothing will be done.

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

 

[dazedjeffy]

And yet nothing will be done.

Truly.

 

[kittmaster]

this is just one of the ways they earned their nickname........comcrap

 

[OCgamer666]

It's Comcastic!

 

[soccermatt34]

isn't there some "law" that prevents the trail of him?

Are you referring to his attempt to essentially pardon himself and his staff of any potential war-crime accusations in the future?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6QpMeaq4Y

 

[w1ngzer0]

Are you referring to his attempt to essentially pardon himself and his staff of any potential war-crime accusations in the future?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6QpMeaq4Y

yes. this is exactly what i was talking about.

 

[rat]

Problem is, Comcast is STILL blocking. I'm unable to get any uploading going on the Ubuntu torrent I'm downloading right now.

 

[CyclopsSlayer]

I have Comcast and regularly use uTorrent primarily to DL fan-subbed anime.

The following is with a typical 5-7 torrents open. SpeedTest.Net reports my speeds as 12MB down, 2.1MB up.
Prior to the recent speed increase, and announced throttle removal, I would seldom see a DL rate in excess of 80KBps, and never an UL rate in excess of 40KBps.
Since the change, I did not purchase the new speed, I regularly see rates of 300KBps down, and 120KBps up.