+1 In fact, I feel that at home, I need fast, reliable internet access. I wish I could get that from one provider. Unfortunately, instead, I get fast internet service from Comcast (most of the time) and I get reliable internet service from Raw Bandwidth (DSL, 1.5mbps/768k).
Owen (Comcast Business HSI customer) On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > On 12/18/2010 12:38 AM, Steve Schultze wrote: >> http://blog.comcast.com/2010/12/comcasts-responds-to-level-3s-fcc-filing.html >> > > I very much doubt whether my comment on the blog will survive their > moderation process, so here it is: > > === > I am a Comcast residential HSI customer, and have many clients who are > business HSI Comcast customers. At the same time, I do maintain servers > in my own racks at a datacenter. > > What is not mentioned in this letter, is that Comcast is already being > paid - by me, and by every other customer, for access to the content. > > Note that Comcast has never said that the Level3/Netflix issue is about > users exceeding their allotted bandwidth (currently at about 250GB/month > for residential); presumably, were a Comcast user to use 249GB of > bandwidth downloading cute pictures of cats, Comcast would have no > objection. > > It appears to be the specific issue that Netflix is a possible > competitor to Comcast's TV business, that somehow causes Comcast to > decide that there is a problem. > > Understand this: every Netflix video to be streamed, is specifically > requested by a Comcast user, operating under the Comcast-advertised > "High Speed Internet" service and presumably within the bandwidth caps > that Comcast's own contract allows. > > That Comcast presumes to have the right to limit, modify, or decide for > me which pieces of the Internet I can have access to, removes Comcast's > common carrier protections, calls into question the truth of your > advertisements for the HSI service, and raises the issue of whether > Comcast is dealing in bad faith with each and every Comcast HSI subscriber. > > ==== > > --Patrick