ISP Comcast Screws with File-Sharing Traffic

[MRG]

Interesting Read.

http://www.dailytech.com/Comcast+Screws+with+FileSharing+Traffic/article9337.htm

-MRG

 

[DEATHMASTER]

A guy in another forum actually had his Comcast connection ownt by the company and they are refusing service to him now because 'they can'. Apparently they told him he was exceeding his 'limit' (which he claims he didnt have), by 100gb. He cut down and next month they changed the number of that limit and disconnected him.

 

[hool10]

I never had a problem with them. In fact they say that my service goes faster than a T3 connection!

 

[Asus]

I know regular customer lines are not held to as high of a standard as business lines (down time, unadvertised limits etc).

I wish they would state what their actually download limit. Otherwise you go over some invisible line and get labeled as abusing the line. I think it's dumb for them to be able to say "unlimited" when there really is a limit. And it's their say what they think the standard is for someone to use even under an "unlimited" line. Hidden service conditions like that suck. I realize some providers may need to have limits to maintain quality service and that is fine. But they need to put it in writing and not "unlimited".

I have Mediacom and they are pretty good here. No issues except some down time here and there. Upload could be better as well as price but it's normal for this market.

 

[Kyorisu]

They only do it when you are seeding, why is that? Many DSL/Cable connections do not have synced upload/download for the ISP this means you usually have a nice big chunk of spare upstream spare on the rented lines. So why only stop uploads when you'd have plenty of spare bandwidth otherwise not used and with no real cost saving.

Here in Australia we have quite restrictive quotas with shaping, restrictive quotas without shaping and overuse fees or quotas shaped or not which have on peak/off peak hours. Generally at night there is less demand on the network and your offpeak quota is bigger to entice people to download at night, this is true especially with TPGs DSL2 40gb/110gb plan.

Still why screw around with seeders?

 

[Asus]

Guess Comcast is really known for poor service. Grandma decided to get out some frustration with a hammer.

 

[Barney Fife]

I'm OK with them as long as they freaking around with P2P folks and they stay away from my online games. lol.

I don't really play a lot of online games but, it would suck; if my ISP calls me and say "I use too much stream, get out and get some sun, along with fresh air" lol.

 

[Laivasse]

I'm OK with them as long as they freaking around with P2P folks and they stay away from my online games. lol.

I don't really play a lot of online games but, it would suck; if my ISP calls me and say "I use too much stream, get out and get some sun, along with fresh air" lol.

Gaming doesn't use much bandwidth, but attempts by other ISP's (such as Tiscali) to screw with P2P have been known to hobble Steam. If this becomes widespread practice then you can't just say 'well it doesn't affect me'. At the very least, ISP's would become accustomed to providing only a crippled/partial service, and so quality of service would degrade across the board.

Maybe if ****s like this didn't oversell their service by a factor of 10, they wouldn't see the need to screw with P2P :dozey:

 

[Barney Fife]

Gaming doesn't use much bandwidth, but attempts by other ISP's (such as Tiscali) to screw with P2P have been known to hobble Steam. If this becomes widespread practice then you can't just say 'well it doesn't affect me'. At the very least, ISP's would become accustomed to providing only a crippled/partial service, and so quality of service would degrade across the board.

Maybe if ****s like this didn't oversell their service by a factor of 10, they wouldn't see the need to screw with P2P :dozey:

Agreed.