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Literally, they have opposed an open internet for as long as they have been involved with it. They have been one of the larger IPv6 deployments, which is good

Literally, they have opposed an open internet for as long as they have been involved with it. They have been one of the larger IPv6 deployments, which is good for the network. That being said, they have always wanted to use "Qos" to bias some traffic against others. I really think that the answer here is non-profit carriers providing fiber to everything. As long as carriers can compete in the content space they are going to have a monetary incentive to screw people.

dsr_ 9y ago
They could even be for-profit companies if they were willing to accept regulation (like utility companies ) and a low but guaranteed profit (like utility companies.)
- youdontknowtho 9y ago
  Agreed. The weird thing is that the constitution actually tasks the Postal Service with interstate messaging. They even have local offices where they could issue smartcards/hardware tokens for authentication. It's more likely that I will grow wings and fly away, but they would be in a great position to build a national content agnostic network.
colanderman 9y ago
They don't just want to use QoS, they actively do. All non-Comcast TV traffic entering a Comcast customer's network is tagged with DSCP 8, which basically means "bottom feeder" in terms of network priority (below even untagged traffic). For many this is not a problem. But if you have a router with WMM (WiFi QoS) enabled, the above setting destroys your connection quality, since inbound data takes a back seat to basically anything on the airwaves. I had to start stripping DSCP off of incoming packets to regain any semblance of a functioning internet connection. And of course Comcast doesn't care about this, it combined with their bufferbloat problems just serve as a means to convince subscribers that the really need to upgrade to some $100/mo package to be able to browse Facebook…
- youdontknowtho 9y ago
  I did not know that. I haven't been a Comcast customer for years because the last time I used them the bill was never what they said it would be. I had the worst time getting it turned off too. It was really weird.

dsr_ 9y ago

They could even be for-profit companies if they were willing to accept regulation (like utility companies ) and a low but guaranteed profit (like utility companies.)

youdontknowtho 9y ago
Agreed. The weird thing is that the constitution actually tasks the Postal Service with interstate messaging. They even have local offices where they could issue smartcards/hardware tokens for authentication. It's more likely that I will grow wings and fly away, but they would be in a great position to build a national content agnostic network.

colanderman 9y ago

They don't just want to use QoS, they actively do. All non-Comcast TV traffic entering a Comcast customer's network is tagged with DSCP 8, which basically means "bottom feeder" in terms of network priority (below even untagged traffic). For many this is not a problem. But if you have a router with WMM (WiFi QoS) enabled, the above setting destroys your connection quality, since inbound data takes a back seat to basically anything on the airwaves. I had to start stripping DSCP off of incoming packets to regain any semblance of a functioning internet connection. And of course Comcast doesn't care about this, it combined with their bufferbloat problems just serve as a means to convince subscribers that the really need to upgrade to some $100/mo package to be able to browse Facebook…

youdontknowtho 9y ago
I did not know that. I haven't been a Comcast customer for years because the last time I used them the bill was never what they said it would be. I had the worst time getting it turned off too. It was really weird.