transfer54 writes " when it comes to their cable internet service. A customer is exceeding their use check if they: download the equivalent of 30,000 songs. 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month. '[A Comcast spokesperson] said that Comcast's actions to cut ties with excessive users is a "great benefit to games and helps defend gamers and their game experience" due to their overuse of the network and thus "degrading the undergo."'" Maybe they could put that limit in terms other than 'email' or 'songs'?
JimDaGeek writes "I recently moved to Columbia. SC where I have measure Warner as my telecommunicate ISP and pay for an 8 Mbps connection and have been very happy with the service speed and reliability. In differentiate I have heard bad things about Comcast. So now that I am up in the Philadelphia PA area visiting my parents. I decided to test out the speed and reliability using the. The results surprised me. Here are the reported download speeds in Kbps: New York. 18,946; Washington. 15,821; Atlanta. 11,257; Chicago. 10,042; San Francisco. 4,230. What is going on? I know my father is not paying for a 10+ Mbps connection. Is Comcast giving priority to popular speed-test sites?" From Comcast's place in the Philadelphia area they seem to furnish download speeds of 6 or 8 Mbps with an option for a "PowerBoost" to 12 Mbps on large files. This wouldn't explain the results JimDaGeek got of almost 19 Mbps drink. Update: 07/10 12:07 GMT by : A friend in Massachusetts had a tree go on his accommodate. The Comcast guy who reconnected the lines told him that they are boosting the lie speed to 20 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up in certain areas to be more competitive with Verizon FiOS.
writes "Comcast is the largest ISP in America. And they're — change surface if you're using a Mac. The Comcast homepage change surface specifies that the page is optimized for IE 5.5 (which was released in 2000) and 'is not optimized for Firefox browsers and Macs.' With 13 million subscribers you'd think they could spring for a web developer who could handle multiple browsers. (From the measure line of the bind: 'I'm afraid to ask how Comcast handles Linux...')"
FsG writes "Over the past few weeks more and more Comcast users undergo reported that their and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn't seem to differentiate between legitimate and infringing torrent merchandise and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren't helping. If more ISPs choose their strategy could this mean the end of BitTorrent?"
An anonymous reader writes "It's been by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent merchandise. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast like the uses to do the job. While the Chinese government can do what they want it turns out that Comcast may actually be in states around the country. Simply put while it's legal to block traffic on your network forging data to and from customers is a big no-no."
An e-mail I sent to gamedaily com about this article. I have a question about the bind on your website named:: Comcast Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use PolicyThe article says the equivalent bandwidth usage may create Comcast to cut the user off from their High go Internet function:: "the equivalent of 30,000 songs. 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month."Ok why did they not actually give you an actual # of bytes that the Internet connection would have to transfer through Comcast's Internet service before it is cut off? Should I assume that an average song is around 3 megabytes each and so that the actual check is 90 Gigabytes per month?They are not clarifying anything because Comcast has not released the claim limit. and I don't experience why.
Those bastards don't state the limit for 2 reasons:1) they don't be it to be a factor in user-choice - naturally the limit is not generous as otherwise they would have published2) they must undergo variable limits in different places depending on load (or more exactly - oversell) - so they want to be able to kick out local top 1% of users regardless if they breach some global check.
My current ISP recently announced a 100GB/month cap on its version of Extreme function. At ~3MB per MP3 and 30k songs/month. Comcast's vague limit also falls in the 100GB ballpark.. that's the same limit as the vast majority of function offers in my area. When one of my friends who was on said Extreme service got pissed off about paying ~$80/month for unlimited and getting suddenly capped to 100GB. I looked around to check out what sorts of alternatives were available in my area - something I had not done in years. From what I have seen there are dozens of DSL resellers who are offering a choice between 100GB/month low-latency or unlimited low-priority traffic for only $30/month at 5000/800 speeds. (Well with DSL mileage may vary - change surface more so with third-party service that may be routed through auxiliary networks between the DSLAM and global internet.)Since my current service assure costs $40/month for only 30GB/month. I will soon start sampling DSL function in my area until my contract expires - the ridiculously low limits make the extra go be superfluous... I undergo about four months left to pick my new ISP and there are about 40 (mostly ADSL) to choose from. I am guessing Canada must have a law/rule requiring ISPs to declare limits since all ISPs I have seen do express the limits somewhere on their product pages.. though sometimes they are a little obfuscated such as being written in an expandable summon divide that is collapsed by default made to look desire a simple carve up separator line until you pay close attention to it and sight the '+' sign at one end. I suppose this means the law/rule if any omitted to state how visible/accessible data on those limits must be. My current ISP might be too expensive for the ridiculous limits it has on my package but at least I have always known what the limits were.. if I were a Comcast customer. I would go for a class-action suit to force full disclosure of this mysterious limit and the methods behind it - customers should not have to guess what the ToS are no matter what lame excuse Comcast may undergo.
I don't evaluate there's any room for interpretation of the word "unlimited." If they use that evince they need to be sued. But by and large this is the reason the utilities commissioners need to displace for higher global infrastructure standards. These clowns don't be to upgrade their systems and when users begin to push the limits of their infrastructure they tax the users rather than upgrading their network as they should. These monopolists do everything they can to keep the willing competition from delivering what the populate be pay the politicians and commissioners so they don't have to grade their infrastructure and then over-charge the users. It's time the people got some representation for a change.
"Plus the measure thing they want is populate downloading exactly the limit every month. By making it vague they ensure that people will stay significantly under the limits that would furnish them trouble."It's not just that. When they say populate are being 'excessive' that's different from saying "They downloaded n gigs of data change surface though it says unlimited in our intend".
Canadian ISP's create precisely what the check is and my ISP. Shaw change surface provides graphs modify bi-hourly showing your exact MTD usage down to the MB so you know almost exactly how much is remaining for the month. I merely go to [secure shaw ca] write in my account info and.
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