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by acetheface 7y ago
Not sure if DigitalOcean falls under big providers, but they offer the same solution as Linode, but made a business decision to not advertise it. Even though they haven't advertised it the reduction of null routes and better customer e
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by acetheface 7y ago
DigitalOcean has had free DDOS protection for quite awhile. And it sounds like Linodes solution is fairly similar. DigitalOcean decided to not advertise the fact because advertising your defenses is an open invitation to break them. They st
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by acetheface 9y ago
Its not like the traffic is coming from no where. The traffic is being requested by Comcast's customers. So yes, they should be able to support the traffic their customers are requesting. If its not legitimate traffic, feel free to dro
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by acetheface 9y ago
I think an important distinction would be the rate of investment in customer facing bandwidth vs the rate of investment into Tier 1 facing bandwidth. If they are spending more at the customer edge so they can sellmore ~100mbps plans to cons
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by acetheface 9y ago
>No, you're not, and you never were, and it's bordering on dishonesty to make this claim. At best, you're paying comcast for the same quality access to anything that can reach their network at that same quality. Even that
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by acetheface 9y ago
The problem with a hands off approach is the lack of competition. I cant jump to another provider when the quality of my internet service does not live up to my expectations. Since most ISPs have an effective monopoly there are no economic
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by acetheface 9y ago
As a consumer Im paying Comcast for quality access to all of the internet. Its their job to deliver on that. If they allow their peering points with T1 providers to clog up, they are not delivering on the service I purchased. Also, Comcast