[DrNip]

Hold the BLEEP up. You mean to tell me they disconnect you? I thought they would just charge you by the GB or something. Kinda like if you go over on minutes with your cell phone.

[punx223]

no.... they reserve the "right" to disconnect your service


I say if you have a service.... you paid for... well dammit give it to you

[Gutterz]

EEk I got comcast... Time to do some digging. An Time warner started caps I do believe an the rest are fallowing suit.

[Kal-EL]

I'm not looking.

[FACE]

This all stemmed from when entertainment companies were threatening to supina Comcast and other isp's for customer's personal info in the battle for intellectual property...... or file sharing.

Comcast then put in "sandvine" boxes at the edges of all their networks. At first, sandvine would kill your connection temporarily if your ip had a non-http style protocol going to or from it. This lead to a class action suite against Comcast, and now sandvine mon itors usage, and caps bandwidth when non-standard ftp and http protocols are in use.

How to prove sandvine is on your exterior cable network..... Go to a few different sites and grab a few ftp downloads (one at a time). The d/l will start as normal, usually a mb/s or two depending on the server. Then something screwy happens.... your download will mysteriously throttle down to ~700-800 kb/s. It will stay there until the download is completed. That is, imo, horseshit business.

I complain to them almost weekly about net capping, and that is probably the only reason I haven't received a "too much internet" letter or call yet, and probably won't. As soon as the dsl carrier for my 'hood upgrades their equipment on my street, I'm gone.... SCREW YOU COMCAST.....

.....

[Neuromancer]

AT&T does it on their "unlimited data plan" too last I heard. If you use too much data they charge you LOL

[Gutterz]

Phew
My devices

No device information is available.


But now I know its comming, bastards.


So would sandvine ping your router to loose internet making you do a reset on the network? To regain internet access. I was having a problem about a month ago downloading toarrants.

[FACE]

No, I'm thinking they are not legally allowed to kill your connection for using torrent clients anymore. They will cap the hell out of your bandwidth though for peer2peer, usenet (newsgroups), and known sites like sourceforge. Even a few legal pay subscription sites using ssl and other encryption are capped as filesharing protocols.


It's not even about the money.... It costs Comcast no more or less to allow you to grab all you want..... it's about control, and some booty kissing to avoid an entertainment company lawsuit.

[Afterburner]

So who do we use then? Sprint is trying to take business from Comcast right now with their 4g adapter... And claims their 4g is faster than Broadband... Not sure I understand how one version of broadband can be marketed as something different and still be faster

I would object on the grounds that your original contract with them contained no such "capping clause", and they can't arbitrarily "change the rules" once the game has begun.

I mean, what's to keep them from changing the cap to any random value, such as 100 MB, or even 12K? If they get away with this current foray into "initializing the cap", you can bet your bottom dollar the cap rate will decrease (less downloading) and the penalties/cost will increase.

I ditched Comcast long ago for Verizon, then even they started adding "price creep" and hidden charges to my bill.

I jumped ship with them, and went with Clear.

Down with bandwidth metrics!