Comcast usage triggers Kafka-esque abusage
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Secret bandwidth caps Promoters of Comcast Internet are fond of boasting their superiority over DSL and other types of connectivity, pointing to the cable service's "mindblowing speed" and "unlimited" usage plans. Here's what they won't tell you: Comcast has a secret cap on the amount of data users can download, and those going over the limit can find their accounts terminated with little notice.â¦
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Eight months later Eight months after an independent researcher revealed that Comcast was secretly throttling BitTorrent and other P2P traffic, the beleaguered American ISP has at last admitted that's exactly what it's doing.â¦
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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The FCC uses fines to get its message across.
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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Comcast simultaneously admitted and defended its practice of throttling peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic in comments filed with the Federal Communication Commission on Tuesday. The comments respond to petitions filed by public-interest groups and the Internet video company Vuze.
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Comcast Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission in formal comments Tuesday that hampering some file-sharing by its subscribers was a justifiable way to keep Web traffic flowing for everyone.
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Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
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Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot. Lawyers are already circling in the water, and the company could be looking at a world of pain for its sneaky BitTorrent filtering.
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Why are our Internet lines in danger of jamming up?
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(InfoWorld) - The failure of a DNS (domain name system) server at Comcast caused problems for some Web surfers in the northeast section of the U.S. Tuesday, making several Web sites, including Google, inaccessible. The server failure caused connectivity problems for a "few hours," said Jeanne Russo, a Comcast spokeswoman. By late Tuesday, the broadband provider had rerouted traffic to other servers, she said. An undetermined number of Google users who subscribe to Comcast's broadband service "experienced problems accessing Google and other services for a short period of time," a GoogleÂ spokesman said via e-mail. "Google engineers helped troubleshoot the problem and provided diagnostic information to the ISP. We believe the issue has since been resolved by the ISP," the spokesman wrote. The server was knocked offline because of a hardware failure, Russo said. She couldn't exactly how many Web pages were unavailable to Comcast users, but said that the problem was confined to "a number of sites." The problems were "very isolated, very random," she added.
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--Q When I received my Comcast cable bill, there were many "pay per view" adult movies on the bill.   It turns out that my son ordered the movies through the remote.
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Comcast customers report sharing disruptions; venture capitalists go shopping and more.
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Comcast Corp has told U.S. regulators  it uses reasonable measures to manage traffic moving over its  broadband service as some of its customers overwhelm the  network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at how net access delivered by cable is starting to change.
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Go 910s shipped over the past few months have a virus that infects PCs when connected.
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One of the nation's largest internet providers routinely interferes with attempts by its subscribers to share files, an Associated Press investigation finds. In doing so, Comcast completely ignores the established practice of treating all internet traffic equally.