The Associate Press today covered Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic. And this, of course caused the drive-by blog world to pick up on the story… as if it were brand new news.
Of course, it’s not new news, and it has been happening for awhile. I’ve personally encouraged you to call and email Comcast (1-800-COMCAST and Comcast.com respectively). To put the money where the mouth is normally located… I called again.
It took three representatives to get to someone that actually took down my complaint (one suddenly put me on hold mid-conversation). I was promised a callback within 72 hours. And, as usual, Comcast tech support denied that they were throttling BitTorrent traffic.
However, if every BitTorrent user on Comcast phoned in, Comcast’s call centers and inboxes would be so full, simply hitting the delete button would wind up costing them enough money to defeat the purpose. So, stand up, be heard, pick up the phone and call Comcast to complain!