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  • ATTN: Comcast Employees

    From xLight@VERT/ECBBS to General Mdk on Sat Mar 8 21:30:04 2025
    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: General Mdk to Gw on Fri Oct 12 2007 14:16:00

    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: Gw to All on Wed May 09 2007 11:40 pm

    I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've h 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it t be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to
    the gate for the flight. Comcast an other ISP's do this very thing
    except your packets are the passengers and th routers are the gates for your packets flight.

    Cable Companies want Grandma Clickers and Email Readers and count on people not using it. I guess Cable Token Ring type network if the user does alot of upload it lags other users in your hood. They are counting on you bursting a little data and getting off.

    Well you can buy a Corvette that will go 200 mph doesn't mean you can drive it 200.. Andvaned users who know the in and outs of keeping the connection busy are like a train of packets on a 6 lane highway only able to use 2 lanes. I told them this they said no, "We rented you a car and you put
    5000 miles on it." In my area they are starting to watch that and sent me
    a letter for Fraud and Abuse and told me I wasn't paying enough for uploading 50 gigs in 8 days and downloading 30 gigs when the average user does
    about 8 gigs a month. With all the server stuff I have my local friend
    who runs a dial up ISP said, "Stop trying to be a ISP." Cable companies have a no server AUP. They did this after 7 years as a customer and
    blocked my port 23. Mind you none of my stuff was peer to peer or no
    open file shares of music or movies or any of that.. That's what pissed me off the most.



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    ISP's across the country love to play the throttling and anti-server game.
    What ever happened to quality products and customer service? When I sign up for x mbps download and x mbps upload, I should be able to use that any way I want. It's for the ISP to figure out how to manage the infrastructure and upgrade it so that people can get what they paid for.

    ~xLight

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  • From Jcecmp@VERT/THEWASTE to The Millionaire on Mon Aug 23 00:01:00 2010
    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: The Millionaire to Ikarius on Sun Oct 14 2007 08:31 pm


    I remember a friend say that if 300 baud was any faster he wouldn't be able to read the messages, and then they invented the [more] prompt.

    [Jcecmp]


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  • From Samos@VERT/MDJ to Jcecmp on Mon Aug 23 11:57:20 2010
    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: Jcecmp to The Millionaire on Mon Aug 23 2010 00:01:00

    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: The Millionaire to Ikarius on Sun Oct 14 2007 08:31 pm


    I remember a friend say that if 300 baud was any faster he wouldn't be able read the messages, and then they invented the [more] prompt.

    [Jcecmp]


    and the 1200 baud thingy


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  • From Jcecmp@VERT/THEWASTE to Samos on Thu Aug 26 09:49:00 2010
    Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
    By: Samos to Jcecmp on Mon Aug 23 2010 11:57 am

    I remember a friend say that if 300 baud was any faster he wouldn't be ab
    and the 1200 baud thingy

    and sst that rate you can hold your breath and hold on to the cursor as it flings your neck accross the screen, and prints out the messages. Photographic memory is good at this point. (don't tell us about the time your brain adapted to the speed, and after a little while, you could speed read though thousands of messages...)

    [Jcecmp]


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