Comcast: Not A Member Of The Fat, Dumb Pipe Club
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A couple of weeks ago, Comcast issued a press release saying they were going to “undertake a collaborative effort” to address “rich media content and network capacity management.” They are going to do this by migrating to a “capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic.”
My friend Aaron Huslage points out this means is that they’re still shaping traffic. I agree with that assessment. On the other hand, they are deploying DOCSIS 3.0 to roughly 20% of their service area. Since that’s going to push more bandwidth to the end user, you’d think you’d think they’d have to upgrade their core by a commensurate amount–at least in those areas. Then again, they’ve cocked things like this up before.
It’s hard to say what Comcast is doing. I just wish they’d be up-front about it. I haven’t noticed anything unusual on my Comcast link so far. I guess we’re not too oversold here in Gig Harbor, but your mileage may vary.
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Comment by Mike
I like to think that you havn’t noticed anything unusual because we in the NW are just doing things better than the other divisions, but that might just be today’s delusion.
I wonder why no one at the corporate office responded to your comments about Rhapsody not working as you hoped. Perhaps no one was watching at that point. Though Google alerts didn’t send it to me either, as it did this latest entry.
I do hope that you continue to enjoy (if that’s the right word)(maybe ‘like enough to keep’ is better) our service. It does keep my paycheck coming.
And in case anyone is wondering, Comcast doesn’t pay me to watch for stuff like this online. I am doing this as an individual who works for the company, not in any official capacity (CYA there, cover your actions). I do it out of curiousity about the company I work for and for something to do while I wait for my next incoming call.
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