{"id":194759,"date":"2008-08-20T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/comcast-to-throttle-web-access-during-times-of-heavy-use\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:18:00","slug":"comcast-to-throttle-web-access-during-times-of-heavy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/comcast-to-throttle-web-access-during-times-of-heavy-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast to Throttle Web Access During Times of Heavy Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a spanking from the FCC regarding throttling users based on applications 24-7, Comcast will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=azg8HN0pH24s\">start throttling heavy internet users during times of high network utilization<\/a>, which is what they should have done in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>There now, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">that<\/span> wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it.<\/p>\n<p>Their real problem, of course, is an architecture that is inadequate, but we know what cable companies do when there is a choice between screwing the customer, and fixing the real problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a spanking from the FCC regarding throttling users based on applications 24-7, Comcast will start throttling heavy internet users during times of high network utilization, which is what they should have done in the first place. There now, that wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it. Their real problem, of course, is an architecture &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,997,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-internet","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}