Posts Tagged ‘Comcast’

Effective, well, right now, Comcast has imposed a 250 GB bandwidth cap on your traffic. You no longer can use more than 250 GB per account. That is, unless you haven’t already fired Comcast.
I did that a few months back (first taking a speed hit with AT&T DSL, and then a massive speed boost with [...]

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 [...]