Comments on: Value subtraction

By: home value report

home value report — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:39:18 +0000

I’ve got cox cable with no funny business.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:18:22 +0000

My guess is that they want to compete with FIOS and ultimately when are consistently using large amounts (which their infrastructure might not support as well as Verizon’s) they want to be the low cost / low bandwidth competitor.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:33:05 +0000

I’ve been a comcast customer for years now, they don’t block port 80 (or port 25 inbound). Having said that they charge a lot, are slower than fios, and have pretty bad customer service

By: Gregory Y

Gregory Y — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:11:12 +0000

Lucky are those who have a choice. Where I am, the Comcast is the only broadband option.

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:27:48 +0000

While anecdotal (Google) evidence suggests that this is not universally the case, Comcast does not block port 80 for my home IP.

By: Mike Warot

Mike Warot — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:19:26 +0000

I don’t like the hypocrisy inherent in saying “unlimited” when they really mean “a big number we’re not willing to commit to”.

I’m a Comcast customer at home, and while it’s not unlimited, now I know what the limit is, and I’ll be far less afraid of bumping into it. This gives me some freedom that I didn’t have before, and that’s a good thing.

Business has to make money, and metered internet is a fair way to do it, as long is it’s transparent. So for $50/month or so I get to have a continuous flow of 750,000 bits/second. More than enough to do video streaming to someone else in the world.

My 1993 prediction published in Boardwatch is a bit late, and a bit overpriced, but we’re there. We can do full time video over the net for $20 (with inflation) per month. Whoooooo Hoooo!

By: Flip

Flip — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:40:29 +0000

“So then, why bother? Why give customers one more reason not to use Comcast?”

They have been under fire for not having a published cap while turning off customers who have gone over the secret cap. So now they are publishing it.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:51:34 +0000

Currently Earthlink does not block port 80.