On 01/18/2016 11:59 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Comcast has been voted Worst Company In America far too many times, and they seem to revel in it. Avoid them.
More specifically w.r.t. their ISP business, if it is just fast bits you want, avoid Comcast. If you do anything "internet-like" (for example, run a server of any sort) you'll eventually run afoul of their "abuse" department, whose purpose seems to be more abuse of customers than dealing with abusive use of their network. They are really into this idea that the internet is for one-way content delivery (to you), and anything else /must/ be abuse of their network.
In other words, Comcast does not view their network as a bunch of bits flying around, they view it as a bunch of data streams, and they like some and don't like others. You *will* eventually try to use something they don't like (e.g. the BitTorrent/Sandvine curfluffle; https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/eff-tests-agree-ap-comcast-forging-packets-to-interfere ).
I spent too much time arguing with them on the phone to ever give them more of my money.
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