After my little debacle with Comcast (resolved, for now, but I'm still waiting on the paperwork) I did a little more digging. Comcast, and I'm not making this up, is setting up technology straight out of George Orwell's "1984" - or at least they want to.

As many of those unfortunately caught in the massive debacle that was the switch from Insight to Comcast in Champaign-Urbana know - Comcast sucks. They killed internet connections to 10s of thousands of people without a thought to the effect that would have on a town with so many people relying on the internet for their primary reason for living here - school.