[133851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Dec 18 11:37:20 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D0C4F93.6020605@zill.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:35:42 -0800
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
+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.h=
tml
>>=20
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> I very much doubt whether my comment on the blog will survive their
> moderation process, so here it is:
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> =3D=3D=3D
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
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> 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.
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
> --Patrick
