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tech.slashdot.org - 30 days ago

Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking

— tech.slashdot.org — clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcast's new traffic-throttling scheme , based on information... from Comcast's latest FCC filing . "Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, ... (more) Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, ...

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intomobile.com - 10/26/2009

Comcast to enter mobile data market

— intomobile.com — The cable company/ISP Comcast is mulling a mobile data offering. Apparently, the company wants to extend the... “Comcasting experience” to a laptop near you. And in that sense this page on their website is talking about 3G and 4G services. The latter is available “across ... (more) Comcast to enter mobile data market

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cmcsk.com - 30 days ago

Investor News

— cmcsk.com — Comcast Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results PHILADELPHIA, Nov 04, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK)... today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ... (more) Investor News

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DSLreports - front page:  Comcast Bandwidth Meter Still A No Show - Company 'making some refinements' before launch...

GigaOM:  Why Your Broadband Meter Is Running Late

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Remember Comcast's promised bandwidth meter?http://bit.ly/4iNxPa It's still vaporware. tip @techmeme 10/29/2009

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Comcast Bandwidth Meter Still A No Show - Company 'making some refinements' before launch...
DSLreports - front page — ... . Last year, the company said they'd be providing users with a bandwidth monitoring tool in January of 2009. We're now approaching December, and Houston Chronicle blogger Dwight Silverman notes the tool is still nowhere to be found. According to Comcast, they're still testing the tool among employees, "and making some refinements to the meter." "As you can imagine, we want the tool to be simple to use and accurate before we launch it," says the company, whose ...

Why Your Broadband Meter Is Running Late
GigaOM — ... . Over at my old hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, columnist Dwight Silverman points out that Comcast’s meter still isn’t ready, but is being tested in the homes of its employees. I chatted with Charlie Douglas, a Comcast spokesman, about this issue last week, and was told that the problem is that not only does a meter need to be part of the modem or router itself, but it has to work with the multiple routers, end computers and other devices that may feed off the network. And it needs to be easy to use. All of which requires a lot of testing. ...