Re: Net Neutrality: A Radical Form of Non-Discrimination by Hal Singer vs Hal Singer

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Randall Webmail [rvh40 () insightbb com]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:59 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: bob37-2 () bobf frankston com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    Net Neutrality: A Radical Form of Non-Discrimination by Hal Singer vs Hal Singer

> From: Bob Frankston [bob37-2 () bobf frankston com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 4:59 PM
> To: David Farber; 'ip'
> Subject: RE: [IP] Re:  Net Neutrality: A Radical Form of
> Non-Discrimination by Hal Singer vs Hal Singer
>
> One postscript -- I’m watching and HD show on Comcast at the
> moment and there are many dropouts. On some of my STBs I simply
> can't get the HD signal to work. I could, of course, call
> Comcast and maybe have them tweak something but...

Funny you should mention Comcast ...

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From: Someone@Comcast

Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 12:54
Subject: Fukin' Comcast.

So, my internet connection is completely fukt.  I call
Comcast tech support.  I pretend to go through the motions of what they tell me to do, which if it would have had any 
effect, it has already been done.

They send a tech out.  He goes through the motions
again.  Finally, he declares that the modem is fukt, and I
will have to rent one of the spiffy new SurfBoard modems from them for $3.00 a month.  He sets an appointment for 
Wednesday to come do it.

So, I piggyback on my neighbor's unsecured wireless connection with the laptop and do some research.  Turns out that 
the symptoms describe the aftereffects of Comcast's throttling certain people who they think are using too much 
bandwidth, or they suspect are using it for illegal purposes.  Well, yes, I DID download about 12 hours of tv shows in 
the past week, but they were all public domain shows.

Fuck them, it's not illegal.

Now here's the cute part.  It turns out that when they
throttle your IP address, they lock it to your MAC so you can't get another one from the pool.  The trick is that they 
don't assign IP's based on the MAC of the modem itself, they assign it based on the next MAC in line, i.e., your 
router.  A few minutes enabling MAC cloning on the router/Vonage box and having it use the MAC of an old token ring 
card I have lying in the old equipment graveyard instead, and I'm back on at faster speeds than ever before.

Fuxk Comcast.



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