Comcast could receive a 1.77 trillion dollar fine

[Xetsuei]

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/08/comcast-could-receive-hefty-fcc-fine-for-throttling-bit-torrent/

Serves them right.

[0m3g4Muff1n987]

Lol, good. Idiots. My friend has Comcast and his internet is going down all the time, and his dad is a complete nerd and would know if it was something wrong with his router or something.

[SnaFuBAR]

I won't say "owned" until the court says "pay up". A step in the right direction, for sure.

[paladin]

IS this because they are allowing things like torrents, or not allowing? Im out of it today.

[Phopojijo]

IS this because they are allowing things like torrents, or not allowing? Im out of it today.NOT allowing. They were BLOCKING torrents -- and are probably getting fined. 1.77 Trillion? Probably not...

[InnerGoat]

IS this because they are allowing things like torrents, or not allowing? Im out of it today.They were doing something along the lines of injecting packets that made BT clients disconnect. It never affected me, oddly.

Comcast has been excelent for me and only goes out with the power. I just wish they would offer a better upload in my area. :(

[paladin]

Oh, well i've downloaded quite a few torrents over the past few years (30 gigs worth?) and I have Comcast. I remember like a year ago a bulk email went out from them saying they'll cut your internet if they catch you downloading them.

[Bodzilla]

Telstra is doing this in Australia as well.

[n00b1n8R]

filtering bit torrent?

or being total pricks because they basically have the monopoly?
certainly the second but comcast's shithole seems to be made of torrent filters.

also I'd lol if this happend :3

[Bodzilla]

i dont think it's Bittorrent specifically. but my bro said he was having Problems with Edonkey.
apparently 80% of his servers are blocked, but when he came here he could see all of them. (i'm on a different ISP)

he managed to get a number from someone in the Industry and took it to them about it. Their response "where not at liberty to discuss it".

[Zeph]

Remember that not all users torrent. I doubt the fine will be even a third of the 1.77 trillion USD.

[Random]

I really like the service comcast gives me, I have no problems with torrents (however I don't use them very often)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221384030.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

They have continuously increased my connection speeds without increasing how much they charge. My upload was 384 kb/s last year and now its 1500 kb/s. Heck when I use torrents its not uncommon for my upload speed to be higher than my download speed.

[Huero]

Verizon ftw :D
http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/about+fiostv/about+fios.htm

[paladin]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221435807.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
(my appt)

Boeing pays for my dads internet and his DL speeds at around 30 mb/s

[jcap]

I really like the service comcast gives me, I have no problems with torrents (however I don't use them very often)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221384030.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

They have continuously increased my connection speeds without increasing how much they charge. My upload was 384 kb/s last year and now its 1500 kb/s. Heck when I use torrents its not uncommon for my upload speed to be higher than my download speed.
That's from PowerBoost, though - Comcast's way of misleading their customers into thinking they can get the speeds Verizon FiOS offers with their fiber network without switching ISPs. It does wonders at making customers happy with speedtests and extremely small files. Your real speed is most likely 6 (or 8)Mbps down/768kbps up.

[Metroid4593]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221452330.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:(

[PlasbianX]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221453760.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:[

[n00b1n8R]

christ, you guys are complaining about nothing.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/221547760.png (http://www.speedtest.net/)

I come from a land down under :/

also:

Remember that not all users torrent. I doubt the fine will be even a third of the 1.77 trillion USD.

that's still 5.9 billion :|

[itszutak]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221548499.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

D:

[jcap]

also:

Remember that not all users torrent. I doubt the fine will be even a third of the 1.77 trillion USD.
that's still 5.9 billion :|
*590 billion

I could see it amount to a $6 billion fine. That sounds more in the ballpark. If it ends up going through, it probably won't be any more than $1 billion because they're all butt buddies with the Comcast CEO.

[Bad Waffle]

My internet just sucks, period. It sucks when comcast is better than your internet.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221558928.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Anybody know of any better hosts in the middle of the desert?

[legionaire45]

Holy shit you live in CA too :O.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221609161.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

If you can get them Road Runner is pretty good. We pay about $50 a month for that up there. We used to have DSL but they continually fucked up and refused to admit there was a problem when we completely switch all our hardware out and our internet was still going at about 11 kb/s for a month. My mom's business relies on being able to upload shit so we actually use the upload speed given to us by that service. 10 mb/s download isn't too bad either :D.

[Tweek]

i'm just interested in who's going to RECEIVE all those millions.

[Boba]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1955/internetyn3.png

[Zeph]

i'm just interested in who's going to RECEIVE all those millions.

Did you not read the article? The Federal Communications Commission.

[ExAm]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1955/internetyn3.png175 ping with those numbers? Methinks I spy a photoshop! (or just a really, really bad test server) You kidder, you!

EDIT: I don't know why I'm so fixated on this, but it's 3AM and I'm bored and feeling that special way that I do when I'm sleep deprived, so you'll excuse me if I amuse myself by attempting to blow this possible minor prank which is of no consequence or annoyance to anyone whatsoever and does not break any rules or regulations and is a completely legitimate and safe method of gaining a giggle or two, out of the water:

Upon looking at the rest of the test pictures in this thread, and testing one myself, I've found that,

-The final numbers are never situated that far from the left side of their fancy little number fields,
-The url of your image is an imageshack url with a custom filename before the usual 3-character imageshack garble,
-The rest of the tests have been linked using the conveniently provided image link located below the results on the website.

The only reason I can think of for downloading the actual image to the hard drive would be to edit it in some way.

Blame the gnomes.

I'M A SUPER SLEUTH!!! :v

[Random]

That's from PowerBoost, though - Comcast's way of misleading their customers into thinking they can get the speeds Verizon FiOS offers with their fiber network without switching ISPs. It does wonders at making customers happy with speedtests and extremely small files. Your real speed is most likely 6 (or 8)Mbps down/768kbps up.

Well I really don't care, because on filefront my upload speed is 1500 kb/s and all that matters is that the its not slow.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/Random846/test.jpg thats not a small file and my original speed of 384kbs up was from what I had on filefront last year.

And the report that the speed test printed out showed a connection of 8 Mbps down

[Terin]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221800811.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

And this is at a good time. It's very inconsistent.

Although, I might end up switching to 1.5 mbps down with Comcast... just need to see if it's worth it.

[JDMFSeanP]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/221817375.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Lol comfial.

[Zeph]

175 ping with those numbers? Methinks I spy a photoshop! (or just a really, really bad test server) You kidder, you!

Bandwidth is negligible for pings. Otherwise, yes. It's a photoshop. Congratulations on getting the joke.

[ExAm]

Bandwidth is negligible for pings. Otherwise, yes. It's a photoshop. Congratulations on getting the joke.Do I get a cookie?

[SnaFuBAR]

would you be mad if it were a photoshopped cookie?

[Boba]

175 ping with those numbers? Methinks I spy a photoshop! (or just a really, really bad test server) You kidder, you!

EDIT: I don't know why I'm so fixated on this, but it's 3AM and I'm bored and feeling that special way that I do when I'm sleep deprived, so you'll excuse me if I amuse myself by attempting to blow this possible minor prank which is of no consequence or annoyance to anyone whatsoever and does not break any rules or regulations and is a completely legitimate and safe method of gaining a giggle or two, out of the water:

Upon looking at the rest of the test pictures in this thread, and testing one myself, I've found that,

-The final numbers are never situated that far from the left side of their fancy little number fields,
-The url of your image is an imageshack url with a custom filename before the usual 3-character imageshack garble,
-The rest of the tests have been linked using the conveniently provided image link located below the results on the website.

The only reason I can think of for downloading the actual image to the hard drive would be to edit it in some way.

Blame the gnomes.

I'M A SUPER SLEUTH!!! :v
way to ruin a long running joke gosh

[ExAm]

Long running joke? Did I miss something?

[Bodzilla]

I'd say to Lay off the sleep.
but that would just make your condition worse. :v

[ExAm]

I'd say to Lay off the sleep.
but that would just make your condition worse. :vBut isn't that the point? :downs:

[Zeph]

Long running joke? Did I miss something?

The sarcasm, at least.

[jcap]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080114-fcc-officially-opens-proceeding-on-comcasts-p2p-throttling.html


The Federal Communications Commission has officially opened a pair of rule-making proceedings over network management in the wake of the discovery that Comcast occasionally blocks some BitTorrent (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071019-evidence-mounts-that-comcast-is-targeting-bittorrent-traffic.html) and other traffic (Comcast calls it "delaying (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-comcast-shooting-itself-in-the-foot-with-traffic-shaping-explanations.html)"). The proceedings are not unexpected, seeing as how FCC Chairman Kevin Martin promised (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080108-fcc-to-investigate-comcast-bittorrent-blocking.html) an investigation last week at the Consumer Electronics Show.

[Bodzilla]

Why am i Pesismistic about this outcome?

some how i dont think anything will come of this and Comcast will escape through a loophole passing it off as "reasonable network management".

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222714266.png
I has a lucky version of comcast, hehe :) and no, it isnt hacked :)

[paladin]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222714266.png
I has a lucky version of comcast, hehe :) and no, it isnt hacked :)

At my dads house, Ive peeked at 31 mb\s, Ill get a screen next time im there.

[InnerGoat]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222714266.png
I has a lucky version of comcast, hehe :) and no, it isnt hacked :)No you don't. Its just powerboost.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222726164.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Nice to know how fast the line could be if there was any competition around here :rolleyes:

[Jay2645]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222749113.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

We're switching to AT&T, they say they'll double that.

[Xetsuei]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/222751143.png

D:

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Looks like only a few people here actually get powerboost, oh well.

[TPE]

Power boost is great for small downloads like songs and stuff but for torrenting its pretty bad.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/223115291.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Peaked 34 MBPS before.

[Bodzilla]

Power boost is great for small downloads like songs and stuff but for torrenting its pretty bad.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/223115291.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Peaked 34 MBPS before.
i hate you

and i hate the internet you have.

[X3RO SHIF7]

bleh, i use bell sympatico (canadian) and i think they are throttling bittorrent downloads >.>

[Emmzee]

Christ, you guys have insanely fast Internet.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/223891475.png

[Bodzilla]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/223892209.png

what are you bitching about emmy >:(
It used to be 5x worse.

[Timo]

Jeez, and the newspapers here say how old and crap our internet is compared to Aussie who has far superior speeds.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/223898212.png

[ExAm]

Yarr, my speeds be almost low as the Aussies' :v

http://www.speedtest.net/result/223899934.png

[Bodzilla]

hey, i'm on the second highest Speed i can get, i get 40gb bandwidth a month and it costs me over $80 a month to get it.

yeah aussie owns.

and if you cant see the sarcasm there your fucking retarded.

[Emmzee]

hey, i'm on the second highest Speed i can get, i get 40gb bandwidth a month and it costs me over $80 a month to get it.
Unlimited bandwith, $50ish/month.
:v

[Bodzilla]

I hop u like being raped by pitchforks in hell you foul demon spawn.

Go back to the Shadow.
:gtfo:

[Timo]

hey, i'm on the second highest Speed i can get, i get 40gb bandwidth a month and it costs me over $80 a month to get it.

yeah aussie owns.

and if you cant see the sarcasm there your fucking retarded.
That's the fastest speed I can get, 10gb cap for $70 a month :v

[Bodzilla]

god bless monopoly phone/internet providers.

I love you Telstra / Telecom (if your a NZ'r)

[TeeKup]

Wow.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/223907542.png

Lawl.

[Bodzilla]

I hop u like being raped by pitchforks in hell you foul demon spawn.

Go back to the Shadow.
:gtfo:
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