"potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

Sat Dec 18 16:35:42 UTC 2010

+1

In fact, I feel that at home, I need fast, reliable internet access. I wish I could
get that from one provider. Unfortunately, instead, I get fast internet service
from Comcast (most of the time) and I get reliable internet service from
Raw Bandwidth (DSL, 1.5mbps/768k).

Owen
(Comcast Business HSI customer)

On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> On 12/18/2010 12:38 AM, Steve Schultze wrote:
>> http://blog.comcast.com/2010/12/comcasts-responds-to-level-3s-fcc-filing.html
>> 
> 
> I very much doubt whether my comment on the blog will survive their
> moderation process, so here it is:
> 
> ===
> I am a Comcast residential HSI customer, and have many clients who are
> business HSI Comcast customers.  At the same time, I do maintain servers
> in my own racks at a datacenter.
> 
> What is not mentioned in this letter, is that Comcast is already being
> paid - by me, and by every other customer, for access to the content.
> 
> Note that Comcast has never said that the Level3/Netflix issue is about
> users exceeding their allotted bandwidth (currently at about 250GB/month
> for residential); presumably, were a Comcast user to use 249GB of
> bandwidth downloading cute pictures of cats, Comcast would have no
> objection.
> 
> It appears to be the specific issue that Netflix is a possible
> competitor to Comcast's TV business, that somehow causes Comcast to
> decide that there is a problem.
> 
> Understand this:  every Netflix video to be streamed, is specifically
> requested by a Comcast user, operating under the Comcast-advertised
> "High Speed Internet" service and presumably within the bandwidth caps
> that Comcast's own contract allows.
> 
> That Comcast presumes to have the right to limit, modify, or decide for
> me which pieces of the Internet I can have access to, removes Comcast's
> common carrier protections, calls into question the truth of your
> advertisements for the HSI service, and raises the issue of whether
> Comcast is dealing in bad faith with each and every Comcast HSI subscriber.
> 
> ====
> 
> --Patrick