the demands to disclose confidential data on the blog aren't helping either
It's always interesting how things like bandwidth displays are considered "confidential data" particularly when they show something bad. The best service providers will actually provide the statistics without being asked, even to the public, for example: https://noc.iphouse.com/?skin=print Comcast may need a reminder that an Internet Service Provider's job is to provide internet service to its customers. If you cannot do the job, open up your infrastructure to sharing and let someone else have a go at it. This leveraging-captive-customers-to-get-money-from- others game is fundamentally dirty, at least if the rumors about your transit connections are true. Which probably brings us around to the reasons that it'd be interesting to have Comcast volunteer the information. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.