As many have suspected, Comcast is in the spotlight and exposing their corruption by wanting to charge websites for bringing us to their websites. Yes you read that right. You pay an isp to allow you on the internet, now the largest company on the internet is about to force website owners to pay a fee for letting them have visitors.
Basically, it’s like I rent a limo and go to a party, the limo driver goes to the party host and charges them for bringing me to the place I already paid the limo driver to take me
Worse than that is Comcast also wants to offer faster streaming speeds to higher paying customers.
So if I wanted to open my own video service on the web. I build a massive server and pay outrageous fees to my isp so I can deliver the content people want, I would still have to pay comcast per speed I would like the people receiving my streaming videos. Basically the party host paying for the limo driver to drive a little bit faster. Even though the limo driver has already been paid for the server as contract.
Comcast is trying to ruin what we call net neutrality. and it looks like it is happening now. but all kind of saw this coming when they wanted a bandwidth cap, and we settled for a high one. Knowing in our guts the same excuse will come up later, as they push further into removing net neutrality, or reducing that 250 gigs a month limit we used to think we could never hit. I mean why wouldn’t they? Since Comcast’s 250 a month cap, all providers have put out caps, most are under 5 gigs per device on their service.
Level 3 the company that provides internet to our internet providers, has finally spoke up. and it looks like this is either going to get real good and Comcast is going to get Bslapped for exagerating the strain they go through for providing internet to the public, or worst case, comcast sues Level3 and takes over the internet in it’s entirety.
Comcast has and will always treat you as if you have no choice. Even worse when you have no other choice. Their fees are impressively high and their help staff is impressively lax about all services. They will put a smile on their voice as they tell you it will cost you money to hear there is nothing that can be done, and will gladly send you another technician back out (at $45) to tell you again.