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Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review
Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Officially Capping Internet Use
Friday, August 29, 2008
Comcast has announced on their website today that they will be setting an official cap on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. Starting October 1st, the cable juggernaut will update their user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 GB of traffic per month (that comes out to [...]
Continue reading...Virgin Media, Worst Than Comcast?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
In the recent past it seems that Comcast has become the favorite ISP to hate with their constant manipulation of your traffic, illegal traffic tampering (OOPS, wait, nothing is illegal under Bush admin if done by a big enough corporation, full pardons all around!) and a general all around level of shit service… but it [...]
Continue reading...Comcast HD - Significantly Worse Than Verizon FIOS
Sunday, March 30, 2008
bfdtv, a user on AVS Forum took the time to do a competitive analysis if the new re-compression Comcast is doing in order to fit more HD channels on the same network without chopping out a significant number of analog channels to compensate. The end result is that your once gloriously untouched HD channels are [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Plays Dirty Politics to Avoid Trouble
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Jens Eckels just sent me a heads up that Save the Internet.com caught Comcast stuffing their FCC hearing with paid “filler” people to avoid letting any unpaid members from the public get in. Check it out: Par for the course as far as Washington shenanigans goes, and bravo to all those douche bag fuckers that enjoyed [...]
Continue reading...Congress to Investigate the FCC over Comcast Investigation
Friday, January 11, 2008
Confused about why Congress would investigate the FCC? No worries… let me explain: Comcast starts blocking and shaping user traffic quietly and denies it when asked about it. The block and shaping is independent confirmed by techies and researchers The Associated Press finally confirms it and publishes their findings The FCC takes notice, and announces they will investigate Comcast *MY [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Sued over Traffic Blocking
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Ohhhh FACE! Comcast is finally getting slapped with a lawsuit pertaining to their secret manipulation of BitTorrent and other P2P traffic using the traffic shaping software from Sandvine. A lot of folks originally thought the traffic blocking (technically called “traffic shaping” but it’s more like “traffic ub3r-p0wn4g-ing”) just applied to BitTorrent traffic (because the RIAA and [...]
Continue reading...Comcast to Begin Charging for Tech Visits
Monday, April 23, 2007
If you have been a Comcast customer you may have gotten a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that your $60/mo bill helped pay for the times when you needed a tech to come out and figure out what was going on with your setup. The Consumerist is reporting that this is all coming to an end [...]
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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