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FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespread: FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespreadThis is really no supriseFor anyone who knows Comcrap they should have known this. and FINALLY a FCC investigation shead light on it. Comcrap needs to be hit with a HUGE fine so no other ISP resorts to the methods of blocking internet protocols and...; Tags: Federal government, ComCrap, FCC, Comcast Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-22
FCC hearings: Comcast versus vuze: The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday. Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth. Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...; Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-26

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Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media: Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social mediaWell when you are comcast..isnt it COMCASTIC!?and providing the level of service (wait what service?) they do..you need to keep your name from totally going down the tubes. Look at their latest FCC debacle and how they "changed" to avoid further regulation and/or...; Tags: Blogging, Comcast Corp., Comcast monitoring Twitter, social media, blog; Discussion threads 2008-04-07
Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control: Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...; Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-24
A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management: I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...; Tags: BitTorrent, Japan, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Mr., Video, DOCSIS, Geek, Wireless Network, Presentation, Network Management, Richard Bennett, Cable, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet, Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-03

News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...; Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet; Blog posts 2008-02-27
FCC hearings: Comcast versus vuze: FCC hearings: Comcast versus VuzeCouldnt have said it better myself...George you pointed out specifically in your article that Comcast COULD change to the DOCSIS 3.0 networks vice the DOCSIS 1.1 network they have now (which a previous discussion I believe it was determined this has been around since 1999)..so Comcast...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), VOIP, FCC, Comcast Corp., network, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday: The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda (PDF)...; Tags: FCC, Professor, CNET Networks Inc., Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-22
Comcast: BitTorrent blocking is a good thing: Russell Shaw has some excerpts from Comcast's comments to the FCC over bandwidth "shaping." As you peruse them you can see there's little there but a full-throated defense of the practice. The carefully limited measures that Comcast takes to manage traffic on its broadband network —...; Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Russell Shaw, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Comcast fesses to FCC: yeah we have right to, and we do, mess with some P2P packets: In a filing with the FCC yesterday, Comcast admits it messes with certain "P2P protocols." Plain English: When Comcast subscribers are exchanging large files- Comcast sees these as poential factors in slowing down its network, and reserves the right to employ digital chicanery to interrrupt these sessions....; Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Network Management, Networking, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-13
FCC starts inquiry into Comcast P2P blocking: After months of newspaper reports, customer complaints and numerous petitions, the FCC has initiated an inquiry into Comcast's throttling of P2P traffic. Comcast has until Jan. 25 to respond in writing to some questions from the FCC. And on Monday the agency opened the public comment period on a petition...; Tags: FCC, Petition, Comcast Corp., P2P, Vuze Petition, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-16
Things getting hot on the Comcast front: So things are really heating up on the Comcast front. Vuze, an open platform for video distribution that uses BitTorrent, has filed a formal petition for the FCC to make some rules about what Comcast is doing. And this comes just a day after a Comcast...; Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-16
Harry Potter on the Torrents proves once more: Torrents are dens of thieves: Harry Potter on the Torrents proves once more: Torrents are dens of thievesDon't forget to addphotocopiers, scanners, and printers. All used for nothing but copyright infringement. Without the scanners, for instance, this could never have happened.Pardon me -- I've got to go and restart my seeds of the...; Tags: Scanners, Torrents, den, BitTorrent; Discussion threads 2007-07-17