Alex Le’s Blog

It’s time to say NO to monopoly and for Net Neutrality to be passed as a law.

It’s not Comcastic as you all claim. It’s ComCraptic. My experiences
with Comcast has got from worse to worser, and now I am a very unhappy
customer. Comcast is in fact using dirty and shady tactics, often
disguised as to help “preserve the speed for its users”, to severely
throttle services that are not in its interest to run on the network.
YouTube doesn’t even want to stream sometime, meanwhile Hulu.com (a new
TV-show site) is streaming Hi-Def videos just fine and it is extremely
fast (because Hulu is not that big yet and so it’s not on the black
slow-list). Netflix Watchnow is now extremely slow and almost
unbearable. I watched a 24-min animation episode and it took 20 minutes
to download the video! I always have DUMeter installed so I constantly
monitored my download/upload rate. Before, for Netflix, I was streaming
at 500KBps - it was almost instant to begin watching the instant
videos. This is how the new “internet experience” should be. I was a
very happy Comcast customer.

I started to read on Slashdot about
Comcast trying to slow down BitTorrent and other traffic. NO! All
traffic on the Web should be considered EQUAL. Why are we trying so
hard to erase racial discrimination while Comcast is trying its best to
discriminate and destroy the foundation of “free internet” ? And NOBODY
right now can do a thing to change this evil Comcrap piece of @#$? What
would happen if Comcast begins to extort money from Netflix, YouTube,
Hulu, or even Amazon, to allow users to use these excellent services?
That would be the end of the free internet.

After a “service outage” in my area, the speed of Comcast degraded
worst than anything. YouTube streaming speed is out right ridiculous,
if not pathetic. Netflix streaming speed degraded from 500KBps to
300KBps, and now, as I’m typing this, it’s only downloading at much
less than 100KBps. It took 20 minutes to half an hour for anything to
work. This is pathetic. And Comcast did NOT disclose anything about
their practices, not until people started to discover concrete proofs.

(http://netflixcommunity.ning.com)

I found this diagram while searching on Comcast and its shady and
disrespects of the customer practice. I don’t think any explanation is
needed.

What kills the internet? Not spam, not phishing, not videos
streaming, not the data tsunami. It is the unfair practices from ISP
that slow down the evolution of the internet. Comcast is playing its
monopoly hand to dominate places where users don’t have an alternative.
And yet, they have all the power to fudge, deny, or change the TOS for
their own legal and financial benefits. I would pay double for my
internet connection if I have any choice other than Comcrap. That’s
right, I would pay $118 a month for any ISP that works and treats their
customers honestly.

In the US, everything is built on Trust, and Credit. Hence we have
credit history, credit cards, personal loans, and mortgages. If
corporations like Comcast are abusing and destroying this circle of
trust and credibility, society as a whole, will be mubh better off
without them.

Comcast, I sincerely wish you would go to hell for your practices.
Meanwhile, you will go to sleep better if you treat your customers with
dignity.