[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

Bob Toxen transam at VerySecureLinux.com
Tue Jun 3 19:29:26 EDT 2014


My experience is identical to V's.  Hulu choppy, Netflix fine, tend to
go just over my limit more often than not.

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 08:25:24PM -0400, Vernard Martin wrote:
> On 6/2/2014 12:04 PM, Bob Toxen wrote:
> >Btw, Comcast's advertised bandwidth is allowed for about 20 seconds and
> >then I'm throttled back to one tenth of that!  It's very obvious on a
> >scp of a gigabyte file.  In my opinion, that's false advertising!
> >
> >I'm also finding much of my video streaming rather choppy now!  (I
> >haven't analyzed if it's at the web sites or Comcast.)
> >
> I also have been getting choppy and stuttering on Hulu as of late.
> doesn't happen on Netflix or Amazon Prime so I assume its Yet
> Another Example of the Death of Net Neutrality rearing its head.
> 
> I disabled my guest wifi at the moment but I might turn it back on
> at some point. I actually *do* get clse to my 300GB/month limit :-)
> 
> V
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