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Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

GFY — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:44:02 -0000

Internet speed is only as finite as the amount of data available in an area. If Comcast offers residential services and commercial services in an area, and people who are heavy users subscribe to business class services and continue to utilize it the same way, and comcast does nothing to change their network it would slow you the exact same amount. The overall issue here is that regardless of the reasoning, comcast wants to remove the viability of cloud/remote services and restrict the flow of high quality media via their internet pipe, which if you're running in a docsis 3 market space they have literally no reason to do. Sandvining and slowing connections was relevant when the actual radio signal from your modem was clogging up the pipe, now that docsis 3 is around, they've more than tripled the number of frequencies used for data. The fact is that this technology and any advancements to it make the point of having direct fiber to the home irrelevant, if properly managed. And so to your point, if anyone is at fault here it's Comcast, they were the first North American ISP to limit bandwidth for home subscribers, and all other ISP's followed suit.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

No — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:31:11 -0000

Yeah because residential ds3 service only costs about 1200$ /month. And a full T1 is less than 1/2 the speed of a residential cable connection and costs 10X as much per month.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Jdw650 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:35:23 -0000

I wonder if these people who have gone over but haven't been cutoff, what they have with Comcast. I bet they have all of comcasts services. (triple play). I bet if you didn't have comcasts cable tv services and went over because of streaming content to your tv, they would call you in a heartbeat. I have triple play and have gone over the data cap quite a bit and have yet to receive a call or warning letter. Hmm

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Jdw650 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:08:30 -0000

Didn't read your post before I wrote mine. You said exactly what I was saying only better. I agree with you completely.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Jdw650 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:59:53 -0000

It's my belife that comcast has capped their internet service for one simple reason. MONEY. More and more people are dropping their cable tv due to the amount of online content that can be delivered to our tv sets. Comcast is losing money because of this. So they figure if they limit people's ability to rely on such services, such as Netflix, video on demand or apple tv as well as various other online entertainment resources. People would have to rely on cable tv again for fear of going over their caps. Shame on you Comcast. It's a changing world and you either change with it or you collapse. Mark my words people. This is trully what's going on. I wonder how other companies like Netflix and cloud services feel about these restrictions. I've had to cut my ties with these companies simply because this cap renders those services useless. Like the 2 gb limit that AT&T imposed on iPhone users, making a great smartphone that was designed to connect us with the world useless. Great job "The MAN".

Re: Update on Comcast Data Cap Situation (Including Complaint with WA Attorney General)

Tony Barnes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:53:11 -0000

i just started to stream netflix and i also play online games. what is the chances i will go over my data cap as my family watches other movies while i'm watching movies as well. please advise thanks so much sir.

Re: Update on Comcast Data Cap Situation (Including Complaint with WA Attorney General)

William Diaz — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:11:09 -0000

I have Sonic.net in San Francisco, they offer Unlimited Internet and Home Phone for $39.99 per month, plus tax of course. The price for that comes out to ROUGHLY half of what Comcast would charge for the same plan with a phone... The plan is 20/2 mbps, but of course being on DSL, Im getting between 9-11mbps down and 1mbps up. They also offer for $69.99 40/4 speed, but based on how far from the CO you are, it will go down. So when you mention that CenturyLink is offering you 3mbps, TECHNICALLY they CAN offer you by far more, since independent ISP DSL providers can, but I doubt you will get 20mbps through any of them, based on the speed CenturyLink is offering you, which is the mid-level of their 1mbps, 3mbps and 6mbps plans.
Sonic will offer GB internet fiber in my area soon, but will be another year or two before it hits my own neighborhood. Same price will offer same unlimited internet and phone, but will increase the speed to 100mbps dedicated, which on Comcast would cost $150-$199 per month and for $69.99 will offer 1gbps dedicated. So... think about independent providers.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

mrgaribaldi2263 — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:42:24 -0000

You might like this: http://readersupportednews.org...

And this (a reprise): http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1014&a...

The basic issue is competition, as you pointed out, but I think that bringing up and out, the common carrier designation and giving it teeth is where we need to go. Once we have made the cable and telcos common carriers with their internet services, a lot of this will go away.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Ccd2k1 — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:16:50 -0000

This is an anti-competitive move by Comcast to block the growth of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google, Hulu, Pandora and MOG from taking over basic cable service. Comcast says 99% of it's customers don't even come close? Who's survey did this data come from? Comcast? This is a major problem. With Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu streaming HD content, along with Pandora, and MOG streaming HD audio, how can 250GB really last a typical Comcast customer? On top of this, backup services such as Mozy and Carbonite, - is 250GB really a fair usage estimate in today's Internet depended society? If Comcast claims that this data limitation practice is to prevent people from abusing its service, then why impose the limit on everyone? There are other more effective ways of dealing with abuse. Comcast knows this, and the underlying reason they impose a cap is because they do not want to lose market share of Cable services to content streaming companies. The people need to step in and take legal action against Comcast for anti-competitive and misleading practices of Internet service. Comcast should take this matter seriously as it can lead them to major law suits in the future for their unfair and greedy policies.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Alex Zemniakou — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:42:09 -0000

Hm, i exceed limit every other month.. i get ti like 265-285GB and ive NEVER been contacted or get my service interrupted. Been a subscriber for over 7 years! i think i broke limit like 30 times at least. i guess it depends where you live maybe?

Re: Update on Comcast Data Cap Situation (Including Complaint with WA Attorney General)

Joe Villanova — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:36:07 -0000

http://joevillanova.blogspot.c...
http://comcastissue.blogspot.c...

I was a Comcast high-speed internet subscriber in late 2005 until I was
booted 7 months later in the summer of 2006 for violating a fuzzy
acceptable use policy that was purposely and vaguely written by lawyers
designed to shield this company from liability. Each month for the
better part of this and the last decade, Comcast would contact the top
1,000 users of its 14.4 million user network, regardless of how much
data they had transferred, and warn them that they were violating the
acceptable use policy. When users asked what the limit was, they were
simply told that there are NO LIMITS and that they needed to stay out of
the top 1,000 user list—something impossible to know.
In 2008,
Comcast was sued and paid the state of Florida $150,000 to deal with
this exact issue and the ambiguity that surrounded it. The state
attorney general said that “a ‘top 1,000′ criteria, as previously
applied, did not clearly and conspicuously disclose to the consumer the
specific amount of bandwidth deemed to be excessive under Comcast’s
subscriber agreements.”
In response, Comcast adopted the explicit 250GB/month cap.
I
decided to take my fight against them by posting videos on YOU TUBE and
contacting several media outlets in getting the word out. I can tell
you that it was the most vicious fight I’ve ever encountered. By my
actions, I found out that there were others out there that had the same
experience as I.
I and other former subscribers demanded that
they show “proof” of “excessive use” and was repeatedly refused the
request. What shocked me more, is how defensive this company really is.
Comcast is scary. They hate net neutrality and don’t like media
spotlight focusing against them. Brian Roberts is called “The Dark Lord
Of The Internet”. He is psychopath like Rupert Murdoch determined to be
the gatekeeper of the flow of information.
We need real broadband competition not these mediocre services provided by huge greedy monopolies.

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

albert71292 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:39:44 -0000

Comcrap is in my area, but I've never used it, don't plan to either as long as they have caps. I was using AT&T DSL from 2002 until May of last year, until THEY announced they were starting a policy of 150GB/month data caps. Between the amount of online video my son and I watch, mostly TWiT and Amazon Prime, and his gaming online with the PS3 and PC, we'd eat through that limit in a week! Dropped AT&T DSL and switched to a small, regional DSL provider, with NO caps. They even advertise in print and on radio "unlike other companies, we don't limit you on usage.".

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Doctorwhoisthis — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:53:06 -0000

I write this around Hertz's Birthday. My Birthday is coming up... the
7th of March. The only gift I ask is that you help spread the word.
Share!

To all whom read this, you are free to copy in whole or
part this entire message and share it with anyone, including your
friends and family! Brief quote: For every injustice, there are a many
(millions of) words that follow (either in favor of or against the
injustice.)

Instead of words, we need action!

I appeal to
anonymous to seek a means of protesting this outrageous limitation that
has been placed on the every day home connection.

"Re: 250GB Cap questions
02-27-2012 04:00 AM
For
the people that said Comcast does not call it abuse, Funny we went
over a couple months ago, I woke up to no Internet. When I called I was
put through to the ABUSE Department. So yes they ^^do call it abuse"
My
response: That's exactly what it IS... Customer ABUSE Department.
it's a question of who is doing the abusing. In this case, it's
CON-CAST! To hell with them!
It's natural for a fish to want to swim deep into the sea. It's natural to surf the internet to it's furthest extremes.
To
an industry that says copying and peer to peer file sharing of
content is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship (with accusations
of being a pirate / piracy)

Every
thug is subject to another thug. Con-cast will have their day in
court, when enough people have incentive to complain outright. It needs
to be organized with no cash settlement. We cannot allow greed and
corruption to persist in this multi-billion dollar thug company to
continue.

If we do, they [the rapists - ISPs] will keep on [raping their customers up the behind.]
Rape
is an act committed in darkness. Normally the attacker hides him or
her self and conceals his or her true identity. Just as before the act
of rape, they give us a pill in our drinks offering "Unlimited"
services and give us an STD, a bandwidth use/usage limitation while
charging us for the act of being raped. Unfortunately we don't have a
doctor that can treat this STD.

Comcast started rape when
BitTorrent became a prevalent file transfer method. They got an STD
from the Media Thugs at the RIAA and MPAA. This STD was like Herpes.
They just had to keep scratching and scratching in order to block the
Torrent packets from reaching their intended destination. They don't
like it when they can't track you 0r what kinds of files you are
sharing... . When they can't stalk you and watch what you are doing in
private.

From a concerned Comcast customer:

To Comcast about Bandwidth (Throughput) Use (Usage) Capping

An insult to customer intelligence.

Though
this issue is not local to Comcast, the idea that Comcast first
implemented has infected AT&T's internet service as well. I prefer
to call them AS&S but that's just my opinion. Limitations create a
lack of trust in an established customer base. Why offer high bandwidth
connections and limit the transfer? The way you guys advertise it is a
30 day all you can eat buffet. These technological measures were made
under the assumption that people were using their internet for illicit
activities. The company treats us as though we're guilty by default and
thus restricts our sharing capacities. Now not all sharing is
illegitimate. Netflix is a paid service. They had to dumb down i.e. add
options to reduce quality their service for dumb ISPs that have caps on
service. Recently while attempting to post this letter on their
forums, I encountered a censorship of the word nazi and gestapo. Now
that is NAZI AND GESTAPO to prevent such words as naughty or bad! It's
time to file a class action lawsuit against Comcast and sue for the
bandwidth caps and limitations while they advertise under the label
Xfinity as in infinite. They also advertise unlimited internet. (They
should be foreced to advertise 250GB (in big noticeable print) internet
not unlimited for consumer protection.) They have disconnected untold
amounts of people from the internet for violating their vile bandwidth
cap twice in a year. Search Google for customers that got violated by
the fine print in their contracts. This needs to be brought to the
attention of any legal body that can conter these measures-- courts and
mainstream media like a stop bandwidth cap day similar to Occupy Wall
St movements. Many people live with children and other people that they
need to share their internet connection with. Some houses don't have
more than one cable outlet to provide services, so a Router/NAT Is used.
It's time to get litigious against Comcast. Put an end to this
absurdity. At the far end of this letter there is a transcript from
another site about the $16 million dollar lawsuit for their throttling
of P2P traffic. They got off easy. The reason is that maybe millions to
tens if not hundreds of thousands of potential dollars in revenue and
or innovation to programmers and Linux distributions were lost in the
time that they disconnected BitTorrent users from such services.
Internet is now a necessity in this generation with everything becoming
digitized-- similar to electricity. Now electricity is metered due to
the fact that it consumes natural resources. Routing and ISP
technologies do not consume natural resources, but pretend to consume
artificial resources creating artifical scarcity. I feel uncomfortable
paying a flat fee for a metered service. To place a limit on
communications is similar to violating the First Amendment in the
United States.

Say no to Comcast Arbitration : http://consumerist.com/2011/10...

They
have no right to market fast connections if the fast connections
cannot be sustained with continual transfers. It is not only speed but
amount of transfer that is valuable and worth paying $60 of a
customer's hard earned cash. They depend upon our ignorance to be able
to continue such insidious policies. When I inquired about their
business service, they said I'd need to pay $200 for installation and
the monthly fee would go up dramatically. Is not their current load
balancing mechanism enough to deal with traffic issues and or concerns?
In a country that started from a revolt on taxation, what has become
of our people? How many people need to bitch before something changes. I
read the site of their Customer Relations guy Rick Germano... He says
they aim to get it right the first time, but they have been getting it
wrong all the time when it comes to incredulous policies such as these.

We
pay monthly and expect to get a full month;s of service at the current
transfer rate. If you add small print that says otherwise, and tell us
how or why 250GB is unacceptable, when people download from iTunes,
play and update video games and software regularly, e4c. Each of these
can be upwards of 30GB easy. 250 just doesn't cut it. Remove all
bandwidth caps and your customers will be happier and more pleased to
do business with you.

They just transferred the throttling that they got sued over and lost in court into caps.

Don't advertise unlimited service and offer unlimited actually means limited.

"Defendants
have disseminated and [continue] to disseminate advertising that they
know or should have reasonably [known] is false and misleading," the
lawsuit stated. "This conduct includes, but is not limited to, promoting
and advertising the fast speeds that apply to the service without
limitation, when, in fact, defendants severely limit the speed of the
service for certain applications."

In light of the FCC decision, Comcast has since changed its policy and imposed a 250GB cap for residential broadband customers.

Under the class action settlement, class members must file a claim by Aug. 14, 2010.
Proof of their advertising unlimited usage:
http://consumerist.com/2010/03...

Until you remove the caps on your bandwidth, everyone should have to call your company CON-cast!

if
somebody buys an internet connection called Xfinity, there should be
no bandwidth caps or limitations. I asked about these matters when the
install guy came, and he called his superior about this topic. Your
sales "professionals" don't know anything about internet. You should
offer training! They said that the cap was download only! Yet once I
read your site, it said that it is for both streams combined. This is
confusing and sketchy marketing. There are no one-size-fits-all
sneakers. All of your residential plans include this ridiculous
limitation. Your business grade service is relatively too expensive to
install and maintain for people such as myself. I download updates to my
operating system software and sometimes it can take hours. Other times
I distribute my legitimate torrent files that can be up to 5GB In
size... If people download GNU/Linux DVDs (an operating system
alternative to windows) from a torrent, it is not only legal, but, free
(as in food and freedom), and neighborly to share! If 50 people
download the file, the bandwidth cap is reached immediately. If I get a
notice from Comcast, I will immediately resort to going on websites
such as rip-off report and make sure that the policy is exposed to the
public in a much more clear fashion. It is a severe threat to terminate
somebody's connection to the internet for a 'bandwidth infraction'.
Why have that limit? Too hard to track and sell your user's connection
and usage information to the government or third parties?

Your
marketing schemes think the average computer user is dumb and that they
don't understand what you are doing. I will highly publicize this and
call up political representatives, the FCC, EFF and make it known that
companies should make it blatantly clear what their limits are! You
will never again be able to call it Xfinity! Verizon is right across
the street and they have no bandwidth caps or limitations on their
service and throughput. SOPA and PIPA protests were just the beginning
to put an end to internet tyranny by corporations and governments. It
is anticompetitive to offer unusual bandwidth caps in a generation of
people that frequent media sites such as Youtube and other such
bandwidth consuming franchises. Once your bandwidth throttling (of
torrents and other data) was exposed to the public, the FCC took
Comcast to court. Even though they lost, it does not mean that they
will again if they attempt to impose net neutrality legislation from
infractions such at bandwidth capping instead of throttling.

Instead
of using bandwidth notation, you should say clearly to customers, it's
15 megabits (not BYTES) a second not 15mbps. Your company sells in
bits to create a wow factor, then you restrict use in bytes. This way
the customer can understand what you are talking about. 1.875 megabytes
per second. That is ridiculously fast for the every day user of the
internet. This goes without saying that modern technological thresholds
peak at about 100-1000MBps. Verizon is working hard to develop a
platform in which residential users can get speeds of up to 100Mbps
download. Also with cloud computing, home users are more inclined to
run their own servers. I laud your company for the fact that there are
no restrictions on which ports may be used after the Torrent issue was
raised a long while ago. Listen to your customers and your business
will fare well for longer times than other companies. Attempt to
subjugate them to undue policies and silence them.. You lose them. It's
true many are addicted to convenience and don't like the effort it
might take to switch providers, but they may be displeased overall. Use
Google to search for "Comcast bandwidth caps" and see for yourself the
expressed opinions of your customer base! You will find more than just
disgruntled customers, but an array of intellectuals and artists that
oppose this bizarre limitation. The only ones not to oppose undue
legislation are lawyers. They financially thrive off of conflict. Let
us break the chains of ignorance and share freely and openly as ones
who love our neighbors as ourselves.

Everything is subject to
abuse. A knife can be used to cut food or murder the next door
neighbor. Who cares if people make "illegal" copies of software? There
are no lost revenues in software that is copied if the end user would
not pay for the software to begin with. In fact it's good advertising.
When people get to test software or listen to music, it makes them more
inclined to purchase from the companies in the long run. I don't put
invisible chains on anything I give to others in the real world, saying
you can only use this piece of plywood to make a boat, but not a house.
That plywood company would go right out of business. Your company does
the same type of thing, except in a very sneaky way that is in the
fine print of a signed contract. Copyright is outdated (currently
restricting true lasting innovation and enlightenment for our human
species as a whole) and intellectual ownership is a childish idea in a
generation of vast fluid local and international communication. Let the
media whore giants be ****ed and let the purchasers have the right to
do with what they bought as they please.

Your company may esteem
your residential customers of being of lower worth than businesses,
but the truth is, every resident may be a business owner. Love all lest
the king be concealed. Consider, Now the $720 a year that I am
currently subscribed to paying your company each year may not amount to
much. if your policies agitate even one potential customer with these
undue business practices of concealing caps and limitations that you
claim is so the service can be fast, he may speak to your current
customers and potential customers and inform them of these unjust
limitations and get 100-1000 people to choose to take their business
elsewhere. Say for each of these 100 to 1000 people, 20 more become
disinterested. Especially in the era of instantaneous social
communication over platforms such as twitter and Facebook (news flys),
you lose 2,000 to 20,000 potential customers at 60 dollars a month.
This equates to $1,200,000 to $12,000,000 in lost potential revenue.
Bad business practices endanger future sales, no matter how convenient
your current service platform might be. I am blogging this entry right
now. Fortunately if I am mailed a letter about excessive bandwidth use,
I am entitled to get my money back. I will take it back and take my
business elsewhere in the event I receive such a letter. I noticed that
my router says
In the past 21 days, I haveused 400GB of data
transfer to and from the internet. Why should people have to give an
account to you for what kind of services they have used? This is a
severe violation of customer privacy. The customer is always right when
it comes to exposing ill intent in companies. To have to think about
how much bandwidth you are using each month can keep a person paralyzed
and paranoid, especially if they like to run an open wifi access point
when their friends come over with their computers and download from
iTunes, etc.
Sorry Jake, but you can't download the music you
purchased onto your device! My _BANDWIDTH CAP_ is like a HANDI CAP that
makes it so I can't do things without fear of corporate reprisal! It
retards online movement and flow! That is what bandwidth caps are...
Retarded! Instead of offering slow throttled internet, you have offered
something akin to a month rental of a Ferrari that can go real fast
but it can only go from New York to New Jersey with no return ticket.
You can't ride for the sheer joy of riding. You have to be paranoid
about having used it for a long distance. OH my the road nazis are
going to notice that I went too far! The car looks beautiful and cool
from the outside, until you notice the fine print in the contract and
meet the road nazis at comcast that complain you used the car too much.
If you were to turn off somebody's internet service (i.e. freeze the
car while somebody is driving it) (instead of mailing them after they
payed their monthly due) at the moment they crossed the cap, I am
certain you would lose hundreds of thousands if not millions of
customers overnight.

Instead of increasing your carrying
capacities by buying new technologies to balance loads of data coming
through, you choose to make people only use the internet less. Any good
ISP knows that the more the product is used, the more the user will
like the provider of the product. What comcast does is an evasion of
innovation.

It costs you little to nothing to turn on some
computers and routers, and let cables do the work for you while you rake
in cash for the said bandwidth. Make it so the customers can make full
use of expansive technologies and they will love you and your service!

(words
these companies use for people such as you and I, _consumers_ and
_users_ (much like a drug dealer might consider their customers to be)

Plan Blast 15mbps download and 5mbps upload
I
calculated that if I used the full bandwidth of the connection
constantly for 24 hours per 30 days the maximum transfer I can download
for my current plan is 15mbps(1.875MBytes/s) x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x
24 hours x 30 days, a whopping 38,880,000,000,000 bits (4.86TB
TeraBYTES!) of data-- . That The limitation is absurd! You are only
giving me 1/19.44 the maximum amount of what is offered (if it weren't
capped) for a month! And that is only for DOWNLOADS! I can sit here and
calculate the uploads, but it would be time consuming.

A three
strikes you're out policy is in place for this retarded bandwidth cap.
If I make use of a connection that I pay for above a certain point, I
get cut off from the Internet. This is truly a fool's errand. Either
remove the cap or cease to call the service Xfinity (sounding like
infinity)

After reading this, I hope you will take the aforesaid
into deep consideration. It is a bad economic decision to limit anyone
or anything in an artificial manner. People will buy other services.
The FCC has at least opened the way for competitive cable and internet
services-- that users may choose between providers. For this I am
grateful!

Oh yes, the 'bandwidth usage meter' isn't even visible
or accessible on the Comcast site under any heading including Home,
Account & Bill, Users and Settings, Alerts, Help, etc. They don't
make it clear to their customers about these matters because people
might be less inclined to subscribe. i.e. Your son can't use the Xbox--
it takes too much bandwidth to update games and download music. I
cannot find any email address to contact customer support on the
website. It's hidden behind veils of javascript forums. They apparently
don't want emails from their own customers or input from subscribers. I
read on Rick Germano's (Head of Customer Relations) blog that Comcast
spent $2 billion on customer relations. If they did that, why can't I
find a customer support email address that I can make use of instead of
some web form that might not work with my browser? If they can afford
$2 billion in customer service, they can definitely serve internet
without bandwidth caps.
While using their service, on Google, I
click on links to contact Customer Support and on both of my computers
it says “Connection Reset” I cannot find one email to contact customer
support. I look all over the websites. To even access their business
internet page, I encounter the same errors. 250GB is a retarded limit,
simply put. When I read it isn't just downloads, it's both up and
downstream bandwidth. The technician said it was DOWNLOAD ONLY. First, I
ask the guy who sent the installation team and he didn't know anything
about the services he was pushing. They're dumb sales men.. The people
working for them probably get incentives to push stuff that people
don't want or need upon new and current customers. I got this response
while calling for a simple cable modem reset. You don't have phone
service. They tried to push their other products onto me like a
subservient minion. That isn't a company that cares for the customer.
It's a company that cares about profit and screwing the people at the
bottom of their sales pyramid. A pyramid is no better than it's
foundation. The top is supported by the layers underneath. They should
call their Xfinity residential plans Xfinity bandwidth Nazi plans. I
have felt compelled to write this.

Reading through the internet, I found the following post:

“Comcast
should not limit or cap bandwidth, as you have a bandwidth limit per
account and it doesn't matter if there is one or 500 people using that
line as you cannot exceed your ALLOWED bandwidth. Providing that the
engineers did their job correctly and the company (ISP provider) hasn't
oversold their system. If that is true then there would be no ill
effect on others in your shared tree. The problem is they over sell
what they are capable of providing and of course lie about the service
you are supposed to have, then they turn it around that those ****
downloaders are taking all of your service it's their fault for using
what is provided to them, when in fact the ISP is not doing their job.
This is normal standard business these days, they keep lying and we
keep paying more. “

From : "http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Ma..."
Quoting from
_Comcast Settles P2P Class Action Lawsuit_

Comcast's throttling, the suit claimed, significantly slowed or stopped his downloads.

In light of the FCC decision, Comcast has since changed its policy and imposed a 250GB cap for residential broadband customers.

Under the class action settlement, class members must file a claim by Aug. 14, 2010.

Cable
giant Comcast agrees to pay $16 million to make a 2007 class action
lawsuit go away. The lawsuit claimed Comcast blocked or throttled
peer-to-peer traffic in violation of Comcast's user's agreement, charges
the FCC subsequently investigated. The FCC found the company in
violation of its network neutrality principles.
Print Version Sponsored By

While
not admitting to any wrongdoing, Comcast has preliminarily agreed to
pay $16 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claims the cable
giant blocked or throttled peer-to-peer traffic to its customers. The
maximum payout to members of the class action suit is set at $16.

The
proposed settlement stems from a November 2007 lawsuit filed by Jon
Hart, a California Comcast subscriber who claimed Comcast slowed or cut
off P2P file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and Gnutella in violation
of Comcast's user's agreement. Hart's share of the proposed settlement
is $2,500.

Several months after Hart's lawsuit, the FCC
(Federal Communications Commission) began an investigation into similar
complaints against Comcast and in August 2008 found Comcast guilty of
network neutrality violations for throttling P2P traffic. The FCC also
found that Comcast misled customers by not properly disclosing its P2P
policy.

They
are doing the best they can to buy off anyone who will speak out about
this. We have to make sure we don't sue for money... but a change of
service and terms in contract, Good unlimited internet service is
"priceless." They'll try to buy judges, etc. That's what the arbitration
clause in your contract does, is give you a mock courtroom instead of
the legal platform of the United States Government. We need to sue the
living daylights out of them in a class-action lawsuit..

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

Johnathan Post — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:19:58 -0000

Someone call Gary Gygax..there's a troll loose!

Re: Windows Vista Coming Together

Ley de Atracción — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:31:16 -0000

is true is difficult dilemma both Mac Vs Windows operating systems have theirstrengths and weaknesses just like us..
All the Best !!!!!

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

undrgrndgirl — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:27:00 -0000

what? this has nothing to do with PAYMENT is has everything to do with usage.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

undrgrndgirl — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:11:54 -0000

wow. i really can't believe all the h8 here.
wait until you realize you are also maxing out your cap. it really doesn't take much.
netflix in hd instead of tee vee and you're screwed.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

undrgrndgirl — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:07:59 -0000

apparently comcast didn't offer that as an option. hope you reach your cap and get shut off.

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

undrgrndgirl — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:06:08 -0000

well...they DIDN'T inform me. i was shocked when i STUMBLED upon my data useage "bar" at the comcast web site. i go there once a month to pay my bill - that is the only page i ever see...but happened to be looking for a way to cut back on communications costs - mostly trying to figure out how to not pay so damn much for tee vee...wow! was i shocked to learn that we have been going over the arbitrary limit because there are two of us home all day and lots of netflix streaming...i work from home and use the internet for work as well.

no, i don't think the author thinks he is special. he is a heavy internet user and shouldn't be punished for it, anymore than i should. comcast offers NO alternative. can't buy up. just get shut off. now that i know about it i am terrified that they are going to cut me off and therefore cut off my livelihood. AND there is NOWHERE else to go. in the heart of silicon valley there are two (2) isp providers: comcast and at&t. they both have the same cap.

why do you think you should have any say over how your neighbor lives his/her life?

Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Melissa — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:44:54 -0000

do u how how to remove restricted off my house phone

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

Matkordell — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:39:19 -0000

Not sure if you're censoring posts or what but my previous post seems to have disappeared... Did you not think that my point was valid?

I really think you should reconsider otherwise I may write an overly emotional, long winded post on my blog and send it to a bunch of underground media sources and government officials to whine about the fact that your impeding my 1st amendment right.

Why don't you leave this post up and let your readers love, hate or, more likely, not care one bit about what I have to say. Maybe you could put my last post back too.

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

Matkordell — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:03:15 -0000

You, like so many others in Seattle, are a whiner. You were not just shut off out of nowhere, they shut you off and warned you multiple times. If I were the owner of another ISP like centurylink or verizon I would black-list you and not provide service out of fear that you might abuse my service and whine about it when I excersize my right to refuse.

I think you should shut up and walk to the library if you need to access your "basic human right"... WTF is wrong with your brain?

Re: Disc-free Future for Game Consoles?

Ab020699 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:42:31 -0000

Good article however, I read somewhere that there is a trial going on in the UK where gamers can sign up for an online subscription that allows access to library of game. In other words, no discs required. Any thoughts?
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Re: The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year [Updated]

Kal — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:01:07 -0000

Why didn't you just switch to business class service after the first warning, it's the same price and there is no cap.

Re: Follow up: The Day After Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet [Updated]

Tony Pearson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:19:54 -0000

In my house we have 6 computers, 1 wii, 1 Xbox, 4 ipod touches. Each of these is connected to the internet downloading updates, apps and other goodies. The Wii and Xbox stream video through Netflix. We use over 8 GB a day just playing on our computers, as of right now I have used 267 GB on my Comcast, I'm actually surprised its still running. On thing I have noticed is when I'm doing a big download, say 750 MB, it will get to 725 MB then get disconnected, having to start over from the beginning! Wow, what about that bandwidth that was just wasted? What about when one of my roommates takes a week off work and sits and watches 4 movies a day for a week off netflix? I watched as the usage went up from 195 GB to 240 in 4 days! That is normal! That is just one roommate, what about the rest of us when we want to check email? I haven't even been online today and it has gone up 8 GB in 24 hours! My computers are disconnected from the internet cuz I'm worried it will go over. I get on just to check my email and to look at my ebay things. I am getting ready to open a business account, I do have a TIN, an EIN, any F...IN' u need to get this thing going. They do need to raise the limit due to Streaming video and such. It is a crazy thing they got going on here in Western Washington!