I heard on a podcast this week some blogger did a test where he was getting about 235 kbps on NetFlix through Comcast, barely enough for low quality streaming, and when he streamed NetFlix through a VPN so Comcast wasn't able to see what he was accessing, he got about 3000 kbps. Definitely Comcast, but it doesn't sound like you can do much other than complain.

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Posted by Freauxzen

Utah

Member since Feb 2006

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Posted on 2/19/14 at 9:55 am to TigerinATL

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and when he streamed NetFlix through a VPN so Comcast wasn't able to see what he was accessing

I'm computer savy, not enough to do something like this. I wonder if this would help all speeds in general or just Netflix.

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Posted by Fletch F Fletch

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Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 2/19/14 at 9:57 am to TigerinATL

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but it doesn't sound like you can do much other than complain.

That sounds about what I thought,

Comcast reminds me of the old SNL sketch with Lily Tomlin as the Ma Bell phone operator.

"We're the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to."

And with this Time Warner merger they might as well shut their "customer service" (

) dept down, they won't have to fix shite anymore...

Oh well, guys, thanks for the help. I've got to say, when you take the throttling experience from the abstract to actually using a stopwatch to time it, it's frustrating as all get out.

ETA: thinking about looking into another ISP, though I don't hold out a ton of hope, the infrastructure around here is pisspoor...

This post was edited on 2/19/14 at 9:59 am

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