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corporate.comcast.com is the company blog at corporate.comcast.com, writing about business and economics. Since 2013, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 65 times, most often “Company Opens Xfinity WiFi Network Nationally for Free”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 30 sampled comments recommend it, 3 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Comcast's corporate blog (Comcast Voices) as the company's official statement on net neutrality, peering, data caps, speed tiers and IPv6, usually as a primary source for what Comcast claims.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the post is more informative on Comcast's position than the article it accompanies, enumerating its argument points.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 30 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Company Opens Xfinity WiFi Network Nationally for Free3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-15
- Comcast Reaches Key Milestone in Launch of IPv6 Broadband Network3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-23
- Xfinity Mobile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-06
- Comcast Response To Netflix's Opposition To Time Warner Cable Transaction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-22
- What Is PowerBoost? (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-29
- Imagine Where 2 Gigabit Speeds Will Take You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-02
What Hacker News says?
Looking at Comcast's webpage on this: http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-supports... They're arguing that Title II Classification is not the same as Net Neutrality, with the following statement: "Title II is a source of authority to impose enforceable net neutrality rules. Title II is not net neutrality. Getting rid of Title II does not mean that we are repealing net neutrality protections for Ameri…
Comment linking /comcast-voices/comcast-supports-net-neutrality-and-reversal-of-title-ii-classification-title-ii-is-not-net-neutrality
on “Net neutrality is in jeopardy again”Submitted Comcast response to Netflix as a story · 94 points
HN discussionWhat made me laugh the most was when Comcast posted about a peering dispute with Level3[0] >Q8: Comcast says that Level 3 sends it 5 times the traffic that Comcast sends Level 3. Is that true? If it is true, why shouldn't Level 3 pay for the traffic it sends to Comcast? Comcast goes on to argue that Level3 pushes 5X more data onto the Comcast network than Comcast pushes onto the Level3 network. What I find ridiculou…
Comment linking /comcast-voices/20-qs-with-accurate-as-about-level-3s-peering-dispute
on “Verizon's accidental mea culpa”Submitted Setting the Record Straight on Tor as a story · 92 points
HN discussionNote that US ISP "Comcast/Xfinity" does not, so at the very least, that's one safe harbor amidst the rest. https://corporate.comcast.com/stories/privacy-with-comcasts-...
Comment linking /stories/privacy-with-comcasts-xfinity-internet-service
on “Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs”Submitted Comcast’s Xfinity Internet Now the World’s Largest Native IPv6 Deployment as a story · 44 points
HN discussionYeah, Comcast used to advertise this as "powerboost". http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/what-is-powerboo... I'm not sure if Xfinity still does that but it wouldn't surprise me.
Comment linking /comcast-voices/what-is-powerboost
on “Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test”- hw · 2015-06-06
Submitted What happened with your Internet last night, and what we are doing about it as a story · 41 points
HN discussion Comcast | Senior Software Engineers and Senior Product Managers | Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, & Sunnyvale | Onsite | Full Time Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range o…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit class modem goes online in Philadelphia as a story · 37 points
HN discussionComcast paused all its data caps among other things due to Covid https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19 Maybe Covid restrained other ISP actions we would have otherwise seen
Comment linking /covid-19
on “California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs”Submitted Comcast Comments on FCC's Proposed Rules as a story · 30 points
HN discussionComcast | Senior Product Manager | Philadelphia | Onsite | Full Time Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of chan…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Comcast + Time Warner Cable: Together Is Better as a story · 11 points
HN discussionComcast, Network Software Development | Multiple Positions | Philadelphia, PA and Remote (US only) Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. W…
Comment linking /stories/covid-19-network-report-smart-network-speed-and-stability
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Comcast rolling out 2Gbit DOCSIS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionComcast doesn't do any throttling, and have tons of interconnection, including direct connectivity with Netflix. http://corporate.comcast.com/news-information/news-feed/comc...
Comment linking /news-information/news-feed/comcast-and-netflix
on “AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data”Submitted Xfinity Mobile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn the US, Comcast generally doesn't get a good rep - but they've done the same: https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19 Now if we could take a second to talk about all the "From CEO..." emails that are being sent around...
Comment linking /covid-19
on “Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections”Submitted Imagine Where 2 Gigabit Speeds Will Take You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThrough the pandemic, Xfinity is offering anyone free guest access, so for at least the next few months, you don't need to even buy logins. https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-extends...
Comment linking /press/releases/comcast-extends-free-public-wifi-access-remainder-of-2020
on “Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone”Submitted “Comcast is committed to a free and open internet” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDespite being a (bit of a) privacy enthusiast, I still use Google's DNS servers, for a few reasons: 1. I use chrome. If I didn't use Google DNS, they'd be able to track 90-99% of my internet usage just by watching what domains I visit in chrome. The remaining portion is e.g. irc, usenet, xmpp, ssh, etc, that doesn't go through chrome. I could use firefox or opera or w3m or telnet or whatever, but I like chrome. 2. I…
Comment linking /comcast-voices/domain-helper-service-here-to-help-you
on “Google Video Quality Report”Submitted Comcast to Acquire GE's 49% Share of NBCUniversal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've only given the following a cursory glance, but it doesn't look like consumers had much to do with the speed increase. Instead, Comcast was concerned with being called out on price gouging in Baltimore [0]. Or they increased their minimum speed without increasing the price [1,2] - which I'd think implies Baltimore had a point about the price gouging. So while some people may have been able to buy better internet…
Comment linking /press/releases/internet-essentials-low-income-broadband-coronavirus-pandemic
on “ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others””Submitted Comcast "offers" to track you in your home as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Xfinity 10G Network™ refers to their latest infrastructure upgrades. It is not a product. This is the confusion the article is about. The product "Gigabit x10" is the plan you are looking for, and is not on their website. It's a residential service but everything is handled by the business side of Comcast and Metro-E. You must get in touch with them directly. See these modmail requests on reddit[1] or dslreports…
Comment linking /press/releases/comcast-multi-gig-symmetrical-speeds-world-first-docsis-4-deployment
on “Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims”Submitted Scanning 170M lines of code: 44% of AI-found critical vulnerabilities were FP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI’m sorry I was only speaking of the US, as this is a US company. > You already knew that home broadband competition is sorely lacking through much of the US, but a new report released today helps shed more light on Americans who have just one choice for high-speed Internet. > Comcast is the only choice for 30 million Americans when it comes to broadband speeds of at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream, the r…
Comment linking /press/releases/comcast-charter-flex-nationwide-streaming-xclass-tv
on “Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims”Submitted Exploratory vs. Deterministic Assessments as a story · 2 points
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