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1 edit | Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" Net Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" said by Cabal  :Net Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened. I agree. Bittorent has a bad reputation as a bandwidth hog and illegal downloads. Instead, buy your music, buy your porn, and buy your movies. Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" You bet.
I end up using BitTorrent on colocated servers which I operate to update the virtual machines installs of CentOS.
The only quick way to download a CentOS DVD is via BT. The other providers would take hours / days for a download. With BT, I can max out my servers 100 MBPS line while performing the download.
There, a legit purpose for the usage of BT. Anything else supergirl? | |
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My views are my own.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" Well.. since this only affects Comcast users UPLOADING on the network and not your ability to download on the comcast network from legit sources, as your data center, then you should have nothing to complain about today, huh?
Bit-torrent on the upload on a residential "no server policy" is not welcome according to the TOS everyone agrees too.. I see this as a moot point and a waste of time.. as I'm sure Comcast is as well. Any more non-news today? | |
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funchords
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2 edits | Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" said by fiberguy :Bit-torrent on the upload on a residential "no server policy" is not welcome according to the TOS everyone agrees too.. I see this as a moot point and a waste of time.. as I'm sure Comcast is as well. Any more non-news today? Once ...
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P2P applications are nodes. Nodes are members of a Peer-to-Peer architecture.
Servers are members of a Client-Server architecture. This is pretty basic stuff. Only the people that drink the weak cool-aid cannot understand it.
AND FINALLY, Comcast itself has said that BitTorrent is welcome on their network.
Who is wasting whose time with this old misinformation?
PS: eDonkey does have a server that assists with searching and providing location services for firewalled nodes. That is a true server. A BitTorrent website (a server) provides half of that functionality for BitTorrent, and a BitTorrent tracker (also a server) provides the other half. In these three cases, these are truly servers. But the regular user just being part of a P2P network (be it file sharing, telephony, distributed computing, or whatever) is not a server.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" : sigh :
.. I don't care WHAT you call it.. if you have a piece of software running on a machine that is serving a file to the request of another client and it's doing so on it's own, it's a server.
If it walks like a duck...
I do give you credit for your very creative ways of spinning things to meet your needs and to fit your views. The problem is, you are still wrong.
In the end, it doesn't matter how YOU want to see and describe something, it's what you agreed to, and what you are saying in your posts ... well... what ever floats your boat. Sorry life is so rough for you. | |
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" said by fiberguy :: sigh : .. I don't care WHAT you call it.. if you have a piece of software running on a machine that is serving a file to the request of another client and it's doing so on it's own, it's a server. So despite all of my examples, both from accepted and authoritative Engineering sources, historical references, and Comcast's own statements regarding P2P on their network -- I'm wrong simply because you say so.
Whatever.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" No.. what you're doing is spinning and mis-applying terms to best suit your needs. That's why you are wrong.
Ever heard of context? You said node... you know that a node means different things based on it's application.. so please.. be like Avis and Try Harder. | |
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4 edits | said by supergirl :said by Cabal :Net Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened. I agree. Bittorent has a bad reputation as a bandwidth hog and illegal downloads. Instead, buy your music, buy your porn, and buy your movies. Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope. Bit torrent went legit several years ago, with legal downloads and many many licensed corporate customers.
The start-ups using the technology are able to profit from advertising and selling products and services, and not greedy triple and double dipping into our wallets like some company's ...
I buy my media and get some for watching advertising, and yes, I need bit torrent.
Just because we have a government that permits this network abuse/blocking ATM, doesn't mean it will last ...
Using a loophole to patch up faults in a network architecture, or instead of expanding infrastructure is IMO fraudulent to those networks customers and contrary to the whole reason we have network neutrality. They are using it to prop up their business artificially. I consider a network architecture faulty if 2 persons could degrade the connections of thousands ... also if everyone else in the country/world is able to have far more capability's without resorting to this chicanery or half-hearted attempts at upgrade.
I bet as soon as the merger conditions (2 years agreed to follow network neutrality) are met, or comcast wins this, ATT will also be doing this to prop up their failing antient copper. Filtering and blocking/forging packets are just more numbers for the bean counters, it artificially inflates the amount of traffic of customers they can transport.
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“ ...messages received from any individual, company, or corporation, or from any telegraph lines connecting with this line at either of its termini, shall be impartially transmitted in the order of their reception, excepting that the dispatches of the government shall have priority. ”
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_ne···#History
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| said by supergirl :I agree. Bittorent has a bad reputation as a bandwidth hog and illegal downloads. Instead, buy your music, buy your porn, and buy your movies. Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope. awesome! I didn't know we had a user on the forum that is qualified to tell us which applications are OK and which are "bad". I really hate wondering if some application I am using is "bad" or "good" - I don't want to be using something if it's "bad".
just as a side note, you might want to know the MPAA has been known to use BT to distribute files; you should let them know they are using "bad" software. | |
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1 edit | Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" said by espaeth :I don't agree with blocking BitTorrent per-say, but that argument isn't really valid. If you were to apply the 80/20 rule to http and BitTorrent traffic, the 80% in http would be legal. I don't think anyone is foolish enough to make the same argument for BitTorrent. I am not making the argument that the majority of content transferred via the BitTorrent protocol is legitimate. My point is that infringing content could just as easily be transferred via SMTP/FTP/SFTP/HTTP as it could be over BitTorrent. You could just as easily set up a FTP server to transfer pirated content as you could a BitTorrent tracker.
At the end of the day it's still another protocol, just like SFTP, FTP, HTTP, etc. Just another tool (protocol, in this case) that can be used for good or bad. Like a knife, for example. A knife could be used to make a sandwich or to kill someone. BitTorrent is quite similar in that respect, it can be used to distribute legal content or pirated content.
Much the same way we don't prevent the sale of knives on the off chance they may be used to murder someone, Comcast shouldn't impede BitTorrent traffic just because the potential exists for copyrighted material to be transferred.
That's all I'm saying. In my opinion, Comcast should just provide a dumb pipe and that's it. No deep packet inspection, no blocking, no purposeful delaying of traffic. Just a basic connection to the world. Nothing more, nothing less. | |
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Pensacola, FL | Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" Gee, you can watch all the pron you want a YouPron. | |
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I've looked at torrents--never found a legal file.
WTF?
OpenOffice.org and a whole load of open-source software is distributed via torrents because it is an efficient use of bandwidth! BitTorrent is a brilliant way of taking the load off of servers which need to disseminate alot of content quickly but don't always have the resources for that kind of bandwidth. Meanwhile we have bandwidth unused. It's a great idea. Just because alot of ppl do illegal things with a technology does not make the technology bad. Where do you stand on gun control, I wonder? Are you one of the "if guns didn't exist we wouldn't have crime" people?
My corporation uses torrents to distribute software updates to all our workers, and we all get the updates the same day using bandwidth much more efficiently than if it came off a server.
Hell, even the RIAA and MPAA "leaks" things as part of viral marketing campaigns. Saying legal torrents can't be found is nuts. | |
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| = supergirl ] Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope.
I use bit-torrent in order to watch Documentary programing from England, most notably Time Team which is unavailable in any form Stateside. In fact Channel4 which airs Time Team refers people bit-torrent sites to view programs they have missed the site I use is very careful to pull any such program when it becomes available on DVD.
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" said by Transmaster := supergirl ] Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope. So you are telling me NASA which uses bit-torrent to disseminate some of it larger freeware app's doesn't need bit-torrent. I use bit-torrent in order to watch Documentary programing from England, most notably Time Team which is unavailable in any form Stateside. In fact Channel4 which airs Time Team refers people bit-torrent sites to view programs they have missed the site I use is very careful to pull any such program when it becomes available on DVD. So why don't they put money into upgrading their infastructure so they could stream it or just host it, rather than relying on everyone who uses bittorrent?
IMO, Bittorrent is used for legal stuff, it just makes it so anyone can bypass the costs of hosting their own stuff. They just put it on the backs of the providers. | |
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Big Media control the traditional channels of distribution. You can't just put out a movie and have it stocked on the shelves. This is a Barrier to entry that the MPAA and RIAA want to keep. It keeps young independent and creative minds out of "their" space.
What comcast is doing is helping to prevent young upstarts from having access to the global consumer market and forcing them to go through traditional oligopoly channels. | |
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" Want to be an upstart? Step one,... purchase bandwidth.. step two, don't think you're going to run a business on a residential service line that CLEARLY.. hear that? CLEARLY says you are not allowed to.
Seriously guys.. what is so hard to get about this? .. are we in horizon of the next generation who has the opinion that they can do what ever they want and not follow rules and agreements? Was there a generation of parents who mis-informed their kids of what's right and wrong or what?
Every day, here, all I read is where a majority of people seem to think that rules are made for someone else and not them. | |
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1 edit | said by supergirl :said by Cabal :Net Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened. I agree. Bittorent has a bad reputation as a bandwidth hog and illegal downloads. Instead, buy your music, buy your porn, and buy your movies. Would you really need Bittorent if you did that? Nope. Some people use BT for LEGAL stuff like downloading shows of there favorite bands Like Dave Matthews Band and some others. who are YOU to say THIS? | |
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| There are also many geographical areas that restrict the flow of music, movies, software to ensure that no "cultural contamination" occurs. ie you can only listen to the music your President agrees with, you can only watch movies that the "Council for Wholesome Youth Education" thinks are good for you. BT and TOR are a way round those restrictions.
Is Supergirl saying she agrees that people should be arrested and incarcerated because they want to watch an uncensored version of a movie freely shown in the USA and in civiolized countries that they cannot get locally becausee "El Presidente" says they can't? | |
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| But that definition of net neutrality doesn't help all of the whiners that want to use their 20/2 connections full-bore, 24/7/367.
BTW, Comcast will be allowed to continue this practice of managing their network. The only thing that may change is that they may be required to actually state what they're doing and managing, but that's a long shot IMO. Honestly, I think the government and consumers would be better served by going after advertising practices of some of these ISPs rather than trying to force lack of network management down business' throats. | |
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| Re: Stop misusing "Net Neutrality" Advertising practices eh? Noooo, that's crazy talk. The tel/cable-cos are nothing but straightforward. Better to have a grand FCC "inquiry" into something that cannot be regulated!!! That's progress.
I always like getting my bills at the end of the month. So many surprise charges! $19.99/mo + System access fee + 911 fee + deployment retrieval fee + state/province recovery fee + enema fee + CEO's kid needs a new BMW fee. | |
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hopeflicker
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| This is good news!
Even if the Comcast is not found breaking any rules that the FCC has set forth, then at the very least it shows the public the unethical practices Comcast preforms.
spread the word!
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SW Ontario | Protect? " employ such technology if you're doing it to protect your network."
Protect it from what? Being used? | |
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ztmike
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| said by andyb :" employ such technology if you're doing it to protect your network." Protect it from what? Being used? I couldn't have said it better myself.
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| Re: Protect? said by espaeth :Because they have to compete with FiOS. No, it's because they choose to compete with FiOS -- which has the same constraining factors as DOCSIS but not as badly.
They want the public to believe that Cable-Internet >= FiOS-Internet (and, for some usage models, it is).
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sbrook
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| The problem with implementing a cap for network management is this
Say have a 60GB cap so you go full tilt 24/7 until you're within say 10% of the cap within the first week then you do nothing but email and browsing for the next 3 weeks. During that 1 week, particularly on cable upstream, you're running the risk of saturating your cable segment (particularly if there are few others doing the same).
Caps are there to limit overall ISP transit bandwidth requirements.
Cable throttling is to ease the cable segment/node saturation problems. It makes some sense in that it eases the loads until DOCSIS 3 can be deployed. Splitting cable segments and nodes can be a exceptionally costly affair.
The major problem would seem to be the way Comcast have implemented throttling with the forged packets. Rogers (Canada) are using Cisco pcubes which apparently drop occasional packets, which causes throttling by the natural delay/retransmit mechanisms built into the IP stacks. This doesn't result in the kinds of failures reported by Comcast users.
Throttling on DSL just helps distribute the transit bandwidth requirement load. It doesn't make a great deal of sense on DSL though. Still, Bell Sympatico (Canada) have done it causing much anger, particularly because the units chosen are causing much collateral damage.
Throttling has NOTHING whatever to do (at least in Canada) with legal/illegal usage of copyright material. It *is* to do with network management on cable. Although one has to question Sympatico's use on DSL! | |
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Elf Wizard
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| the suits of the movie and music industry are just as crooked as the people downloading.
i just wish i could copy gasoline and share it over the net like music because i certainly would do it, since i know the oil industry could afford that loss.
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| Re: Unbelievable said by esc0 :
Never thought I'd see this day in America. What's next?
The end of capitalism and an erra of socialism. I mean, maybe we can do it better than the USSR and Eurpope...
Guess we all want to be poor these days.
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MrMoody
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| Comcast is my hero..... They should degrade (or outright block) anything that gets in the way of providing customers quality service. That includes bittorrent, video, voip or anything else that degrades the user experience.
They may get another opportunity to throttle if this new apple itunes VOD service gets out of hand. | |
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bolt
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Charlestown, IN | Re: So... Because then the cable co's couldn't claim the ridiculously high bandwidth possibilities on transfer speeds that no one ever actually gets. | |
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| Re: So... said by bolt :Because then the cable co's couldn't claim the ridiculously high bandwidth possibilities on transfer speeds that no one ever actually gets. No one? Really? I recently downloaded a Ubuntu ISO from a server at Georgia Tech. Average speed at the end of the download was above 14Mbps on a 16Mbps connection -- a roughly 90% 'efficiency rate'. Seeing as how Ethernet itself has about a 90% efficiency rate, I'd say that's pretty darn good. Oh, and this was around 6:30PM... a.k.a. 'peak time.' Oh, and I've tried this on several occasions, different days, different hours... +14Mbps average on each and every download.
Who knows... maybe, just maybe, I am the only cable customer to get the advertised speeds. Who knows!?! | |
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| Re: So... Personally, I wouldn't know. Insight wanted $9000 to run the cable a half mile down the road to me. But, I've had friends who were getting just barely over dial up speeds in the evenings. It was bad enough and consistent enough that they switched to DSL. At least it was close to it's advertised speeds. | |
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| The shills are out in force today. If people wanted an Internet connection that they could use for email and light web surfing, even dialup would do.
Complaining that any application which actually attempts to use the bandwidth advertised is abusive or destructive is missing the point. The only reason such applications cause problems is because Comcast is unable to provide what they are promising. | |
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Boogeyman
Drive it like you stole it
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| Re: The shills are out in force today. And thats what the issue really is. Some people like to think that its thier network they can do what they want. Well, we give them money to let us access the network, and we agree to follow certain guidelines and they agree to provide some sort of service. Nowhere does it say that I cant use what I am paying for for extended periods of time.
Say you buy a performance car, do you think it would be ok for someone to say "Well, heres your 300hp car, but, you can only use those 300 horses for the first 20 seconds of your drive, if you continue to try and use all your horsepower, we'll cut the fuel to half the cylinders so you can only get 150hp.
Remember, *I* am paying them for my internet connection, not my neighbor. If I decide to max out my connection for a day and my neighbor suffers, then he needs to take it up with the ISP because I am only using what I paid for. If they want to sell us both 6/768 connections, awesome, but then they cant make us share an 8/1 connection and hope that we arent using it at the same time. | |
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Hazelwood, MO | Re: The shills are out in force today. You may want to read your TOS a little closer because in many different ways it does say you can't use it that way. | |
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LeftOfSanity
join:2005-11-06
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|  Lol...
Why do people insist on calling people who disagree with them shills?
How do we know the people on the other side of the issue aren't shills for competing ISP's?
Let it go... | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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1 edit | Ok... I used to use BT for the random TV show and an occasional movie.
Since it is impossible to keep a ratio that people won't boot you for now, I have moved to other sources.
I guess they accomplished their goal with me, huh?
Thing is, I am still getting my "items", just not over the BT protocol - so, in reality, they accomplished nothing.
The lack of me uploading is more or less ok - no MPAA nonsense. 
Pretty soon, even you anti-sharing people will be getting hit when these blocking actions bleed over into whatever it is that you use your fast connection for.
Looking forward to y'all saying it's ok when that happens.
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Scotch Plains, NJ | Comcast != ISP Comcast's "network management" breaks the TCP/IP protocol and forges packets.
Comcast needs to stop this practice or stop marketing their service as an ISP. | |
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join:2007-02-06
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| I agree to a certain extent... There are legit uses for bittorrent... however, if people would stop using it for the illegal uses we wouldnt have a problem... thats the issue comcast has...
I do not have Sandvine in my area as of yet I dont use bittorrent or any other p2p software.. and i dont plan on doing so...
I use my internet connection to its max quite a bit... I often download about 100-150 GB per month... I am a poweruser that decides to pay for his media and also finds legit ways of accessing it for reasonable if not free services.
What I cant understand though is that Sandvine, from what I have been told, has been known to affect surfing the web as well as legit connections such as vpn and connections to personal servers. Therefore rendering your internet connection utterly worthless for longer than you should have to stand for.
If that is comcasts only issue then they should beable to block bittorrent as well as all p2p software so that others may use their connection for their servers. There are otherways to access media... I dont see the issue.
I would also love to run my own wifi hotspot however, that is impossible to comcast's "invisible" cap... So I don't run one. Compromises are compromises... | |
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| Re: I agree to a certain extent... said by Biggielou :
No matter how you spin it. You take copywrited stuff and distribute it, that is stealing. Comcast is just trying to protect their investment. No different that any other business.
That's like saying 1 + 1 = Banana.
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Chesterton, IN | I didnt know FREEware was stealing...
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| Re: The problem..... Your comparison is wrong, since in this case, everyone pays to use the pump, not how much they get. Your comparison is for paying by the byte plans.
What if the gas company has someone come in that has built a hugh storage tank next door to the pumps, and this person runs a hose from the pumps straight into his tanks (which are as big or bigger than the company's tanks). This means that since he is constantly pumping, no one else can get gas, but charges everyone the same price for turning on the pump, not how much you pump. Then who is to blame. | |
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Boogeyman
Drive it like you stole it
Premium
join:2002-12-17
Huntsville, AL
| Re: The problem..... At first you would think the individual doing the pumping would be at fault. But if you think about it longer...
If they didnt want to allow that, they'd just tell him he cant use the pump anymore.
They could have built stronger pumps to handle the load.
What you are suggesting is that we continue to allow that gas station to tell everyone that they can get a flow of 1.5gpm, out of all 12 pumps at the same time, with only using a 6gph pump.
Remember, they advertize "Blazing fast 8/1 connection" (or whatever), not "Blazing fast 8/1 connection unless some of your neighbors are also using thier blazing fast connections" | |
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b frank
@comcast.net | Re: The problem..... the fine print also say the spped are not Guarantee and speed may vary. not sure what part of that people dont understand. i dont know one company that will Guarantee speed | |
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Jerkface
join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ | Comcast Customers have any of you tried to get comcast to suspend RST packet forging by calling customer care? Now THAT would be a funny conversation.
Just think...haha | |
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| tigernike23
join:2006-03-26
Decatur, IL
·Comcast
1 edit | Re: Comcast Customers nah, when they take over my market.... if they do the same thing to mine. i'll threaten to sue (and I may) for false advertising. This is no different than when a medicine like Vioxx, goes wrong. bittorrent is required for my one of my college courses. i have money and i can get a lawyer, and i'll be more than happy to take on Comcast. anyone want to help me make it class action status? | |
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anonimoose
@bell.ca
| comm channels When I went to school (which was a while ago) a cardinal
rule of designing communication channels (the Internet is
one of these) is that they are not sensitive to the content.
Otherwise it would be possible to unintentionally change
whatever is affected by the content, by merely "saying the
wrong thing". The Internet is designed to be agnostic in
this respect, for just that reason.
Nobody in their right mind would say Bittorrent itself is or
should be illegal. Like guns, it doesn't break the law.
Users do.
If an ineffective attempt at say, gun control, catches a lot
of innocent owners in its net, well, some would argue less
easily detectable guns are needed. Others would say, fire
the gun dealers for being complicit in such a bad scheme.
Others would say, fire the politicians who made the bad
laws. But nobody would argue that it's the gun's fault!
The use of bittorrent for breaking copyright laws is a
symptom. The disease, in my opinion, is at least as much
the law as it is people who break it. But targetting
bittorrent is like targetting IP. Or TCP. Sure, it was
probably used in some way in 9-11. So let's get rid of it.
The Internet's value is proportional to the number of its
users. When China censors it, we all suffer. Just as we
all suffer when Comcast censors it.
"It's the information that makes the country strong."
-Lenny Bruce | |
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WhatsThePoint
@ca.us
| Duh If you can't download torrents, all you need is $19ish DSL to read emails and surf the net. It's plenty fast to handle CNN video downloads, etc. If Comcast wants people to pay $45-$60 for their "highspeed" service, they should not limit or interfere with downloading from the newsgroups or from torrent sites.
Also, as to the argument about software like uTorrent being "servers", I'd disagree. You have server software and client software just like FTP. I don't see torrent software as servers any more than I view a client ftp program being a server when it shares a file. | |
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