[mdlug] home hosting (Comcast rant)

[Dave Arbogast]

After taking their bait with false advertising that their business 
internet was faster than DSL, I had them remove my service. They kept 
billing me for it - service I no longer had, ignoring my letters to them 
about it. When the bill hit $505 I wrote the Michigan public service 
commission. This got their attention. First they tried to negotiate to 
half this and I laughed - $250 for something I never had in a house I 
moved from last year. They cleared the balance.

Now I have DSL with several times the upload even possible with comcast, 
no traffic shaping nor filtering, and slightly faster downloads than 
comcast business class. Yes, false advertising on their part. Oh, yeah, 
every time I complained about my vonage traffic being "shaped" their 
only solution was to tell me I had to buy their voice service.... They 
would not send out a tech until I said it was time to pull the plug.

-dave

Michael wrote:

>First thing is your provider must allow hosting - Comcast not being the
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>>most honest about traffic shaping.
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>How does this work? I just read my Comcast agreement, which explicitly
>denies my ability to do this. Please help me get more things to tack on to
>my lawsuit for when I have more money and time to take down evil
>corporations.
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