[RP TownTalk] Comcast Internet

[Lou King]

Marc
I also have Verizon DSL, although I actually pay someone else. 
Considering my daughter's experience with FIOS in VA I'm not standing in 
line.  Anyway I don't believe its faster.

Sense I don't have TV cable I never considered Comcast. The known issue 
of limited through put, was always a negative for me.  Early on it was 
reported that cable slowed down when everyone gets home and logs on to 
check email etc.  This is of course  why Comcast is blocking "heavy" 
users.  If one user uses lots of the cables capacity, all other users 
suffer.  This is not true for DSL and shouldn't be true for FIOS.

Lou
PS  I hope you don't mind me moving the discourse back to TownTalk so 
all can read your response.

Marc Molino wrote:
> Lou,
> We have Verizon DSL, but we also don't download that much. We might be 
> getting FIOS soon... my better half is the tech geekier between the 
> two of us.
>
> How is Comcast's service overall?
>
> -Marc
>
>
> From: cranky old coot <lking at knob.com>
> Reply-To: lking at knob.com
> To: TownTalk <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
> Subject: [RP TownTalk] Comcast Internet
> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:43:02 -0400
>
> I just read a Washington Post article Shutting Down Big Downloaders
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602545.html?wpisrc%3Dnewsletter%26wphttp://www.washingthttp://www.washingtonpost.com:80/ac2/wp-dyn?node=admin/registration/register&sub=AR> 
>
> and was wondering if Comcast has cut off any one's  Internet here in 
> town.
>
> "The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new
> Internet sin: using it too much.
>
> "Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet
> service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and
> slow down the network for other customers. The company declines to
> reveal its download limits.
>
> "'You have no way of knowing how much is to much,' said Sandra Spalletta
> of Rockville, whose Internet service was suspended in March after
> Comcast sent her a letter warning that she and her teenage son were
> using too much bandwidth."
>
> Later in the article Comcast claimed it would take "the equivalent of
> 1,000 songs or four full-length movies every day" to trigger a
> disconnect warning.
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Lou
>
>
>
>
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