Subject: Connectivity issues w/Comcast   
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     Re: Connectivity issues w/Comcast   
     By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Tue Aug 16 2011 10:32 pm   
      
    > Weird. I've had a Comcast cable internet connection for the past 8 months.   
    > I've not had 1 single glitch until last week, and I've had 2 since then.   
    > Once, I renewed my lease and the connection came back (albeit with a new   
    > IP), and the second time my connection came back with a DHCP renew (but   
    > with the same IP).   
    > I'm starting to miss my local mom n' pop ISP I had for years -- a LEC DSL   
    > reseller, offered decent services, static IPs, managed the LEC so I didn't   
    > have to, and someone who knew always answered the phone.   
      
   Starting to?  Comcast has been nothing but trouble since they got into the   
   ISPindustry, blocking ports at times, and making it technically a violation   
   ofyour license agreement to run a server of ANY KIND on a residential   
   connection.Yea, right.  The active filtering of BitTorrent was a mess as well,   
   and is nowwhat the EFF uses as a benchmark to see if a net-neutrality proposal   
   holds anywater.  If it would have prevented that action by Comcast, it's   
   worthconsidering.  Meanwhile, today, Comcast is teamed up with AT&T and   
   Verizon in a6 strikes approach to piracy, which seeks to create a blacklist of   
   people whocan get service at none of those aforementioned ISPs (and I believe   
   there maybe some others as well that are in on it).  Man, kind of makes me   
   glad I can atleast still get RCN around here.  I feel bad for people who get   
   no choice inwhere their Internet comes from.   
      
   cykros   
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