Comcast Blocks Web Browsing 502
An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."
Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
Comcast (Score:1, Funny)
Let me be the first to say (Score:5, Funny)
You CAN opt out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Read the featured article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:comcast charges for opting out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FIOS availability (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh, I can get 50MB/s broadband here? Of course I'd love to live under this bridge...on the train tracks....next to the paper mill...downwind of the sewage treatment plant."
Re:Cancel (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Throttling (Score:3, Funny)
I think you're confused as to what advertising is.
From Wikipedia: Advertising is a form of communication whose purpose is to lie and deceive potential customers into handing over money for a product or service. Tactics used in advertising include... flat out lies, false claims of superiority over competing products and/or services, meaningless awards and testimonials to improve the image of products and/or services, exaggerating capabilities of products or services with the intent of getting around to providing said features or services at some point in the distant future maybe if they can be bothered, using spokespersons from a totally unrelated industry (usually entertainment related) to increase the appeal of the product or service.
Re:FIOS availability (Score:3, Funny)
Lets redefine Comcastic! (Score:3, Funny)
Comcast has their own "Comcastic!" word for describing the Comccast experience. Why not turn it into a sarcastic meme of "fantasic!". Better yet, with specific application to losing bits.
Examples:
My Hard-drive crashed. Comcastic!
We had a Comcastic terminator on this 10base-2 cable which was causing the problem.
I sent they money, but western union got a bit Comcastic.
Steven Hawking thinks black holes have Comcastic properties.
Re:FIOS availability (Score:4, Funny)