JESUS FUCKING ASS SHIT CHRIST I'M FUCKING CURSED

[LordZeebmork]

can someone please fucking deliver a swift kick to the genitals of whoever runs every fucking ISP I have ever used

okay uhm

my dad gets free comcast cable internet from his job. it shits out every day at around 8 pm. basically, it starts dropping packets like fuck (I think), which, in effect, slows it down enough that I can't do any shit except IM people, and eventually kills it altogether.

I also have a verizon DSL connection, which I can't always use, but I have been on it for the past few days. it has started doing the same thing, except it doesn't shit out completely; it just goes down and back up. basically, I can do web shit but I can't talk to anyone over IM.

what the fuck is going on

[rtil]

i have heard that comcast purposely chokes connections that use torrents but you seem to be talking about a specific time of day that this happens
i mean it could be someone in your neighborhood who has their torrents scheduled to start at 8pm and isn't smart enough to encrypt the data
that's the only thing i can think of

[LordZeebmork]

i have heard that comcast purposely chokes connections that use torrents but you seem to be talking about a specific time of day that this happens

yeah and I don't torrent anything on that connection

or use p2p

or do anything besides standard web shit, aim, msn, and irc

and I don't come anywhere near 250gb

so I don't see why they would do anything like that

i mean it could be someone in your neighborhood who has their torrents scheduled to start at 8pm and isn't smart enough to encrypt the data
that's the only thing i can think of

huh? that connection isn't on wireless as far as I know

wait, maybe it is, but my dad is a security freak so he'd probably have it locked down enough that nobody outside the nsa could get into it

[trent bortknob]

i have heard that comcast purposely chokes connections that use torrents

how would they know

[rtil]

don't ask me how, i just know that it's possible and that i've noticed when i run torrents unencrypted my internet slows to a crawl (as well as the torrent)

anyway zeeb i hate to say this but you just might have to contact your friendly local comcast guy who drives around in a creepy white van to investigate

although i don't know what the point would be as those people are entirely useless

[GRINACE]

I reformatted my regular pc and now I can't connect to the interntet, what should I do? I tryed getting the "cd" driver onto my jumpdrive to my pc & still dosen't work.

Help.

[Square Q]

Comcast just plain fucking sucks. The same thing pretty much happens to me. The main reason why it sucks dick, is Comcast became universal and free in a lot of places, thus making the standards of the performance really low. It's also not in high demand anymore, therefore, they do not have to put any effort into establishing a decent connection to their customers. That's just the way it works. Oh, and rtil, whoever told you Comcast penalizes people who use torrents is pulling your leg.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

now I can't connect to the interntet, what should I do?

um....

[rtil]

Oh, and rtil, whoever told you Comcast penalizes people who use torrents is pulling your leg.

eh, it's very well known that comcast throttles p2p traffic, amongst other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Network_Neutrality

now I can't connect to the interntet, what should I do?

um....

lmao
but in all seriousness we can't help you unless we know what kind of router you are using and how you're connecting to the internet

[LordZeebmork]

okay my comcast connection isn't fucked anymore

I don't know what happened