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Hello everyone, Actually several of my friends have switched out of Comcast to the many other alternatives because of this "server" issue. God forbid you have a VPN to home, use BT, have a game server or even USE your connect for which you are paying. Want some giggles? Go to Google and search for customer complaints. xD The founding fathers of the net and the general spirit of its innovative forces never meant for it to be a closed entity. Innovation, economic prospertity and even job creation is only possible if the medium is kept OPEN! C0mcast is no longer on my vendor list at all. The consumer accounts are horrible and the bandwidth cap at 250/gb is simply anti-competitive. Do they think we are dense as consumers and don't see they are trying to lock out the digital video delivery services and any other competitors in that space. Do I want them telling me what I can visit and how I can visit it? Network Neutrality is important to me and they directly contend that we have no rights. I am afraid that if we don't stand up as consumers we have only seen the beginning of how lame this can become. Do you buy closed devices? Do you want a closed Internet? How did we end up here anyways with a few large telecom oligopolies owning this market? Oh well, it was the regulators and politicians (both parties) simpleton economic logic on how markets "work." How many examples of market failures do we need before people realize that markets don't function without balanced legal frameworks and regulation. It's time consumers have a vocal say in our future and I will vote with my $$$'s. I'm tired of the old guard that got us into this mess we need to demand that they produce services that meet OUR needs. We as a community should have much more to say about this... http://www.savetheinternet.com/ http://www.freepress.net/ HAVE A GREAT TURKEYDAY!!! J
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