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Comcast's 250GB Data Caps Now Official, Starting in October [Rumor Confirmed]

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2008-08-28 17:46:00 by John Mahoney in Gizmodo
...Comcast folksthe 250GB caps that were once rumored are now officially official and will start October 1 for residential customers. But, instead of charging you for every GB you go beyond that in a month, Comcast is getting a bit more byzantineif you blow the cap twice in six months, they may terminate your service altogether Comcast tries to...
 
Tags: typical residential, residential, data, typical residential customer, residential customers, comcast, customers, internet service, service
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Opens Curtains On How They Filter Your Traffic [Comcast]

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2008-09-19 20:16:48 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols (Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL traffic you...
 
Tags: management, congestion management technique, congestion management practice, congestion management, network management practices, network management technique, experience, high-quality online experience, network management tools
 
 
 
 
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Comcast - We won't block Vonage or any other VoIP provider

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2008-07-10 12:52:43 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...Comcast is "working on rehabilitating its name and implementing reasonable management techniques through a new partnership with VoIP service provider Vonage." Vonage and Comcast said they will work on ensuring adequate management techniques to avoid network congestion to ensure high quality VoIP services I should point out that Comcast...
 
Tags: voip, comcast, vonage, voip patent, block vonage, quality voip services, comcast censors, comcast lives, comcast users
 
 
 
 
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Comcast - We won't block Vonage or any other VoIP provider

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2008-07-10 12:52:43 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...Comcast is "working on rehabilitating its name and implementing reasonable management techniques through a new partnership with VoIP service provider Vonage." Vonage and Comcast said they will work on ensuring adequate management techniques to avoid network congestion to ensure high quality VoIP services I should point out that Comcast...
 
Tags: voip, comcast, vonage, block vonage, voip patent, comcast censors, quality voip services, comcast lives, comcast users
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Offering New 22Mbps and 50Mbps Speed Tiers, Upgrading Existing Service [Comcast]

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2008-10-22 16:58:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
Comcast has announced that they have upgraded their DOCSIS 3.0 service to offer new high-speed 22Mbps/5Mbps and 50Mbps/10Mbps options. They have also increased the speed along standard tiers: 6Mbps/1Mbps will be upgraded to 12Mbps/2Mbps and 8Mbps/2Mbps will be increased to 16Mbps/2Mbpsboth at no cost to subscribers. The "Ultra" 22Mbps plan will...
 
Tags: service, tiers, internet service provider, internet speed tiers, comcast, speed, internet service, internet, premium speed tiers
 
 
 
 
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Comcast Would Like to Remind You It Does Same-Day VOD, Too [Me Too Vod]

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2008-02-04 17:50:53 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...Comcast made an announcement reiterating they do same-day movies on-demand as well , but they don't send you a DVD. They've also got whole trilogies of movies! Ooooo. Sorry, like Randall said, there is but one trilogy. [ Comcast ] Movie debuts, television series premieres, action trilogies and Oscar-winning films pack Comcast's on-demand...
 
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Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks [Comcast]

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2008-03-27 19:45:35 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...Comcast and BitTorrent are finally making nice after being all Crips and Bloods, even rousing the FCC out of its slumber at one point, which Comcast fought with every trick in the book. It sounds awesome on paper: Your torrents are safe! More bandwidth! Torrents will work even better ! Comcast is all for net neutrality! Not quite. You might...
 
Tags: comcast, bittorrent, comcast fought, net neutrality rules, net neutrality, bittorrent execs, time warner, time, traffic management technique
 
 
 
 
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AT&T's U-Verse Screwing With Network Says Comcast [Cable]

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2008-04-23 09:24:07 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...Comcast. About 40 cases of the problem have been reported since AT&T began supplying U-Verse in the Chicago area, with about 17,000 Comcast customers being affected. And though at first it sounds a bit like a schoolyard tussle, AT&T's lack of response has led Comcast to seek a restraining order from a court in Illinois While AT&T uses twisted...
 
Tags: comcast, comcast alleges, u-verse, comcast node, oppose comcast, systems, att u-verse systems, att, comcast customers
 
 
 
 
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Comcast and Vonage, new best friends

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2008-07-10 19:25:20 by Teresa von Fuchs in CrunchGear
Comcast and Vonage have promised to never fight again and to work together to balance network congestion with ensuring that over-the-top VoIP services like Vonage work well for consumers Wow, does that mean Comcast is promising to stop blocking services like Vonage from running on its network? How sweet Vonage Chief Technology Officer Louis...