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This is total BS, I hope this guy sues the crap out of Comcast
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/72450
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/72450
Yeah, I understand that, and have been caught by them before. However Comcast is NOTORIOUS for doing things like this that violate un-published guidelines, that when you call them out on they won't give specifics. All they say is that the 600GB threshold is too high, and when asked what a reasonable use is, they pretty much say no comment.X-Istence said:TOS/AUP. you agreed to them when you signed up. Welcome to life.
OOL automatically adjusts your upload speed to 28 KB/sec when one uploads more than a certain amount of GB's in a certain amount of time, and it is not even specified what the threshold is. It seems to depend on how much traffic the node you are on is carrying, and if it is having an effect on others on your node.
And there is nothing a user can do about it, as they agreed to the TOS/AUP, which says they may disconnect at any time, or any other measures they feel necessary to keep everyone's speed the same.
Tittles said:Why download 600gigs in a month anyway?
kcnychief said:Yeah, I understand that, and have been caught by them before. However Comcast is NOTORIOUS for doing things like this that violate un-published guidelines, that when you call them out on they won't give specifics. All they say is that the 600GB threshold is too high, and when asked what a reasonable use is, they pretty much say no comment.
I just think they should explain and inform their users better.
X-Istence said:I myself alone do around 200 GB a month on my OOL connection when it comes to movies, music, streaming radio, and everything else. I am an avid listener of streaming radio, some of it at 192 kbps, others at higher, which comes out to:
192 kbps * (30 * 12 hours) = 29.6630859 gigabytes
Assuming 20 days, and 12 hours a day, which is about right. Then there is all the legal music I download, and files from school (big video files for projects due in Video Production (1 hr of video is 10 gb)). I am not really surprised people go over 500 GB personally, since that is just me. Then we have my two brothers, my sister, my dad, and my dad's fiancee. The real killer thing for me personally is probably all the Linux ISO's i download for people I do computer repairs for, as well as updates and others.
kcnychief said:However Comcast is NOTORIOUS for doing things like this that violate un-published guidelines,
Racer_600 said:Be glad none of you are on Rogers Cable in Canada. They are probably the largest cable internet provider here and they have a limit of 60 gigs a month. Up until about 3 months ago the Extreme users also had a 60 gig cap that is now 100 gigs, and download speed is 6 Mbps for them. Think how fast you could hit that.
Matt
I was caught by them back in 1998, for something a wee-bit different.Mastershakes said:How were you 'caught' by them?
Mastershakes said:How do we know what violations have occurred if these 'guidelines' are unpublished? Could you publish them for us?
Mastershakes said:How do we know what violations have occurred if these 'guidelines' are unpublished? Could you publish them for us?
How were you 'caught' by them?
600 gigs is a truckload of bits.