Comments on: FCC finalizes Comcast's filtering penalties

In BitTorrent case, federal agency gives cable operator 30 days to submit its "network management" compliance plan for its approval. The company will not be fined.

[zanely]

This Comcast fine process has been one, long, boring strip-tease. How many more "veils" have to fall before Comcast actually has to pay the fine?

[Nith84]

This is happening with large canadian providers as well. In some cases people were actually suspended without notification for going over their bandwidth limit (for the upper level internet connections that sits arond 90gb.month total, upload and download).

I still do not understand how companies have the right to do so. You need to develop/purchace better software and hardware to handle new technology that is all.

With regard to the comment that they judgement was not passed by engineers, I don't think the point here is techincal that requires engineering knowledge. Rather it is legal, do ISP have the right to change the terms of your connection at their own discretion?

[jinx101a]

Comcast has now said that they'll lower users bandwidth to a DSL speed during times of congestion if they've used too much bandwidth near that period of congestion. I don't know how they can advertise speeds 20x that of DSL if they're lowering speeds for those users to DSL speed. This is a better case scenario than them silently blocking the connections but still equally frustrating since you can't tell if your connection issues are planned or not.

[mushu9]

No one seems to get the bottom line: you have one single router that serves a neighborhood. If ONE person is sucking up all available bandwidth because they are running a P2P file server, that means no one else will get any ability to use the Internet! Then you'll all moan and complain I'm sure. The TOS (terms of service) you agreed to when getting Comcast Internet service specifically says that you can not run a file server. Period. I am agreeing with what Comcast did, just not HOW they failed to tell their customers first. If the ads and paperwork would have simply stated that P2P uploads will be throttled, but all downloads would be at full speed, none of this would have been an issue.