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---However, Cohen also emphasised, "Comcast does not block any web site, application, or web protocol, including peer-to-peer services."---

What a rubbish? They blocked my port 25 long time ago and there was nobody willing to talk about it in the whole Comcast.

posted by : Rafal, 28 July 2008 Complain about this comment
P2P throttling maybe just a red herring

Take a look at http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralfcc.htm
or other sources. Comcast is not only violating FCC policy by throttling P2P traffic. 

"Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice"

and !!!

"are entitled to run applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement,"

If customers decides to run, for example, their own mail server or web server on their computers at home, then they are in title to do so. The fact that Comcast and other ISPs in the US are violating the second part of the FCC policy by blocking all traffic to customers' computers (servers) is far more damaging to the Internet. Any smart lawyer out there who likes to sue the ISPs and make a fortune?

posted by : Bingo, 28 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Get em FCC!

Comcast definitely deserves the fines however we all know they are going to pass the cost of their fine on to us customers.

posted by : Axiomatic, 28 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Tips Up

I think that SBC either delays or tampers NTP packets, for all of my NTP servers on its network seem 50ms off to other servers. SBC's own NTP servers (ntp{1,2}.sbcglobal.net) display the same behavior too.

Even though both Comcast's and SBC's networks are not public ones and therefore I wonder what the FCC has to do with it, how can I let the FCC know about this issue?

TIA

posted by : Augustine, 28 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Where's the article?

Uhhh guys...where's the article? Just a blank page with a title and two ads...

posted by : Cuckahead, 28 July 2008 Complain about this comment

Comcast faces FCC slap over P2P throttling

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