Archive for the ‘Comcast’ Category

This one really has me aggravated as a consumer advocate. So, Comcast decided that the FCC regulations only require them to give one CableCARD per household for free. And, thus, they tacked on a $1.79/month fee for the second CableCARD. This is actually sneaky tactic to bump up the cost of TiVo HD service to [...]

Comcast this weekend did something nice to me (not). They blocked my Port 25, without any notice at all.
Now, I don’t use port 25 on most email accounts, I use SSL email over port 587. But, plenty of people do use it.
Worse, Comcast Tier 2 support hasn’t been informed that they are blocking port 25, [...]

We’re one hour into Comcast’s debacle of getting a CableCARD into my TiVo HD. The process started a little before 2 PM.
Mind you, I avoided all the early adopter problems… or so I thought. The TiVo HD crashed once on the CableCARD pulling in data, and I’m convinced the first card is toast (based on [...]

Comcast has said that they have stopped their filtering. So, I started a few BitTorrent sessions to put it to the test.
The results? Not good…
Traffic ticked up much better than when the filtering was in place, my 1:1 ratio broke 384k for the first time in a long, long time. In fact, speed on BitTorrent [...]

Comcast for the past few months was alleging that they had “more HD channels” than satellite providers. Obviously, many Comcast customers were not happy with that false advertising…
What Comcast was doing, was counting each offering of an HD On Demand program as counting as a “channel”. Since satellite On Demand programming is not as expansive [...]

Comcast is finally getting around to rolling out their perpetually-delayed version of the TiVo. The unit is actually a firmware-modified Motorola HD DVR. The product was announced at CES last year, and hit delay, after delay, after delay. But, Comcast appears to be ready to offer a “significant rollout” of a few markets in time [...]