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File Under: Is Fairpoint throttling down heavy users?

Since I've started using the Netflix streaming option on my xbox 360, I've noticed a curious thing. I will start out with great speed and video quality, then after an hour or so, I start having problems. Even though I have the 3mbps tier, I end up with the show stopping and a message telling me that my connection has slowed and they're adjusting the quality. This ends up happening a few times until I have unwatchable video. I couple this problem with the complaints I've been hearing from other heavy users and I start to see a pattern. I think that Fairpoint may be pulling a Comcast and restricting the bandwidth for heavy users. I could be wrong, but I am getting closer and closer to paying the extra $10/month for Time Warner to get the speed I need.

File Under: Comcast and BitTorrent are friends

So apparently Comcast and BitTorrent had a little get together and hammered out their differences. The question at hand is this: Has the problem been adequately addressed or has Comcast sucked BitTorrent into their douchbagery. It may come as no surprise that TorrentFreak has an opinion on the matter.

File Under: Comcast to FCC "You have no right to stop us from being douche bags."

Comcast VP David L. Cohen, has made thinly veiled threats (read legal challenge)regarding the FCC's right to regulate their blocking of peer to peer networks.

File Under: Comcast just can't help being douche bags

It seems that Comcast paid people to take up seats at public hearings regarding their infringements on net neutrality. Blocking people from accessing their desired content, IS what they do best.

File Under: FCC is working on rules for putting brakes on broadband.

A NYT article about a meeting today regarding the practices of ISP's (*coughcomcastcough*) that slow down certain traffic on their networks. They seem to be working on a way to make sure these practices, which can be necessary, are done evenly with no preference to content.

File Under: Comcast to FCC "Yep we're douche bags, by right"

Post on ZDnet by Russell Shaw, brings to light yesterday's filing made by cable giant Comcast to the FCC. They claim that shutting down P2P data is well within their right (it is, if you actually tell people your are going to do it before hand), and it is necessary to maintaining their networks. As you tech savvy readers know, this is kind of BS.

If they were upfront and told customers, that during high traffic times, their P2P and other bandwidth intensive apps would cause the data flow be throttled back and/or shutdown; they may have a case for not being douche bags. Since they had to be caught before they openly admitted the practice, they are douche bags.