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• Comcast's stated restrictions on Bandwidth Usage carbonmind on 08/31/2008 at 4:33 PM

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  The Service is for personal and non-commercial residential use only. Therefore, Comcast reserves the right to suspend or terminate Service accounts where bandwidth consumption is not characteristic of a typical residential user of the Service as determined by the company in its sole discretion. Common activities that may cause excessive bandwidth consumption in violation of this Policy include, but are not limited to, numerous or continuous bulk transfers of files and other high capacity traffic using (i) file transfer protocol ("FTP"), (ii) peer-to-peer applications, and (iii) newsgroups, whether provided by Comcast or a third party. You must also ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other person's use of the Service, nor represent (as determined by Comcast in its sole discretion) an overly large burden on the network. In addition, you must ensure that your use of the Service does not limit or interfere with Comcast's ability to deliver and monitor the Service or any part of its network. To read their full terms and conditions go to http://www.comcast.net/terms/index.jsp Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: Comcast's stated restrictions on Bandwidth Usage JoeTan1980 on 09/02/2008 at 1:14 PM
    Posts: 1	If this is the case, should they put this bandwidth restriction in thier ads ? Let's says $40 per month / 15 mb/s - 250 GB per month. Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • Re: Comcast's stated restrictions on Bandwidth Usage z0rr0 on 09/02/2008 at 7:38 PM

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      Remeber this phrase: "nor represent (as determined by Comcast in its sole discretion) an overly large burden on the network." That's one person today generating 1gb, and a thousand tomorrow, generating 1kb each. If Comcast never invests another penny in infrastructure, it can, at its sole discretion, determine that more and more of its captive users are creating a load, and therefore should be charged extra. Pure profit! This is where I think that a national policy is sorely lacking.  Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	Backdoor to anti net nuetrality jmaximus9 on 09/04/2008 at 2:45 AM
  Posts: 47 Avg Rating:	This is their way around net neutrality. They are determined to put toll booths on the info super highway. I for one plan on dumping them and switch to WOW. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: Backdoor to anti net nuetrality rttedrow on 09/05/2008 at 6:31 AM
    Posts: 32 Avg Rating:	They're thumbing the Comcast nose at the FCC -- as well as every municipality with which they've negotiated a monopoly agreement.  I see this as the end of Comcast. Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • 	Re: Backdoor to anti net nuetrality gillyhans on 09/05/2008 at 2:27 PM
      Posts: 1 Avg Rating:	Are there alternatives? I doubt. If there were alternatives, they would not be formulating such policies. Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Market Forces will Prevail mkogrady on 09/05/2008 at 11:58 AM

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  The cap only means that Comcast can put a customer in a headlock (or wallet lock) until someone new enters the market space they're occupying. AT&T will put in something, or a Cellular offering will become available or Meraki will make their widgets less costly and a free net will appear. Once this happens, Comcast (or Cox, AT&T etc) will have to be more accomodating or lose customers. Maybe even the users will get sick of the Internet and stop using it all together and keep their money in their wallets for a change. Saving Money by not spending it on frivolous things like email, spam, viruses, internet games - even Cable TV  ... GEEZ WHAT A SICK THOUGHT! Go ahead and let them cap - it's a matter of time till they come around and see the light! Rate this comment: (Reply)