im glad there enbracing them rather than shunning them and comcast throttling high usage customers probably means any body using more than a idle internet connection 

I hate Comcast with a passion.  Mostly because they interupt CNN Headline News with a crappy local Comcast program.

Whatever they are up to, it's bad, I'm sure of it.  I can't see them embracing BitTorrent so easily.

The question is: if they decide to work together how much will it affect non-Comcast users (as they will have MORE of a hand in throttling BT's bandwidth from what I understand) and their respective downloads?

The only way for me to remotely come close to describing this, without using excessive profanity, is with two words....ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING! This is nothing more than a pathetic attempt by Comcast to circumvent being held accountable for their horrendously prejudice practices towards BitTorrent traffic. BitTorrent isn't really their enemy, rather anything that uses "high" amounts of bandwidth is. If this wasn't obvious to anyone before, then it should be now, given how their current actions demonstrate this so clearly. Rather than single out BitTorrent traffic, which is discriminatory, they chose an indirect approach which ultimately has an even more severe effect.

Essentially anyone who exceeds a predetermined bandwidth usage limit (probably either a daily or monthly limit) will have their DL and UL speeds capped at some undesirable speed far lower than that which they are paying for. Rather than upgrade their ifrastructure and increase their bandwidth capacities they are trying to limit overall traffic. This is a miserable and foolish approach to take. This would be like forcing people who drive on the highway a lot to take surface streets instead, in an attempt to avoid having to add more lanes to the highway. What's equally appalling is that they pretend they are actually doing something that will benefit BitTorrent traffic.

The name Comcast has left a foul taste in my mouth, excuse me while I go gargle with some Listerine.

alot of people who run there business from home will use a lot of bandwidth so is it really fair to slow down there internet and cost them money in lost productivty just so comcast can save some money 

frg1:

alot of people who run there business from home will use a lot of bandwidth so is it really fair to slow down there internet and cost them money in lost productivty just so comcast can save some money

 

Generally if you have even a smaller-sized business (say 30 employees) you get yourself a dedicated line (T1, T3 etc...) as to not have to worry about such things as bandwidth limits and such. Bigger businesses to my knowledge will apply for a range of IPs which they can then subnet across their own network....again not having to worry about any bandwidth but that of their own network congestion