July 2012
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May 2012
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Comcast responds to my previous post
It’s been incredible to see the interest in this story that has developed over the last few days. The response to my little hobby project (intended mostly to force myself to start writing blog posts again) has been pretty amazing to read. Comcast responded to some “chatter” (which is PR-speak for this blog, I like to think) with first a defensive rebuttal and finally some real...
Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast's...
Even if you don’t make it all the way through this long post, take a look at the graphs below. I think they demonstrate reasonable evidence of the prioritization of traffic in violation of the terms of the Comcast/NBCU Consent Decree.
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Thank you to everyone who commented on my previous post here and elsewhere. Much of the feedback I received was along a few related lines:
The...
Just what is the "public Internet"?
From the official Comcast page justifying their bandwidth caps (emphasis mine):
Comcast has set a data consumption threshold (“threshold”) on monthly bandwidth consumption (including both upstream and downstream usage) by residential users of its high-speed Internet service (“XFINITY Internet”). Currently, that threshold allows a residential customer to send or receive up...
Video streaming & net neutrality
UPDATE: I’ve added additional data and observations to a new post here.
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When the Comcast/NBC Universal merger was approved by the Department of Justice, Comcast agreed to two interesting stipulations regarding the neutrality of their residential broadband service:
If Comcast provided capped broadband service, it would not exempt any traffic from the cap, and
it would not...
December 2011
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November 2011
3 posts
Dalton Caldwell: Future Investment Bankers vs... →
Excellent post from Dalton.
daltoncaldwell:
I was waiting in line today to pick a pizza at the Cheeseboard earlier today, and I could not help but overhear a loud conversation between the people standing behind me. One Berkeley MBA student, a self-professed Future Investment Banker aka “FIB”, was loudly explaining to his Berkeley MBA…
