Warning: Comcast is Now Throttling Broadband

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]hillarymakesmecry[/nom]I, for one, am glad I have comcast.Bandwidth throttling could be a good thing. If I'm trying to play some online games and the neighbors kid is slowing down my local internet down by up and downloading 1 tb or more a month and preventing me from playing my games on the connection I'm paying for. Then throttle away.I probably use 50gb a month.[/citation]


Then switch to dialup you butt-pirate and leave cable to the real users.

 

[sidran32]

[citation][nom]invlem[/nom]In that case Comcast should advertise 70% of the available upstream and 80% of the downstream speeds as the rated speeds when they sell you the product. Problem solved, people get what they pay for.What they're doing right now is advertising 100% of the service with no intention of actually providing it.[/citation]
Well then that wouldn't make as good of an advertisement, would it? When they say you can get up to ___ Mbps, it's true, no matter that you probably won't or shouldn't reach it for long periods of time. It's marketing tricks, really.

 

[asjflask]

I'm so glad I don't have Comcast. I hope they really lose half their customer base. All the more reason to take DSL over cable now.

 

[Guest]

And I look forward to Comcast providing an easy-to-use tool showing exactly what my rate is at any given time so that I can self-monitor and adjust my usage. Likewise with the bandwidth cap -- where's the meter showing exactly what they think I've used this month?

 

[asjflask]

If they're going to throttle my bandwidth, I'd throttle my bill as well. I'll pay you what I think you're worth Comcast -- which is nothing. Thank you AT&T for your GODLY DSL service that I love and enjoy.

 

[rooket]

Ok how is this suppose to make any sense at all? Comcast is upgrading everyone to 50 megabit and they are going to start throttling? Also their 250gb cap is stupid because they are pumping out 15 to 20 megabit to households now. I have hit 2 megabit already. I can easily get myself banned within half a week due to their idiotic cap.

 

[invlem]

[citation][nom]sidran32[/nom]Well then that wouldn't make as good of an advertisement, would it? When they say you can get up to ___ Mbps, it's true, no matter that you probably won't or shouldn't reach it for long periods of time. It's marketing tricks, really.[/citation]

*sigh* Tis true in the end, evil marketing

 

[Clintonio]

I don't live in the US, but I feel for you guys. I'm on Virgin Broadband, and we get around 1MB/s max on our connection (~8Mb/s), but, we hit our "fair usage" limit, which I presume for a house of 5 people, isn't very high, and we got our connection set to 100KB/s. 1/10th. I actually found mobile internet faster.
I hate ISPs right now.

 

[steiner666]

Nothing like getting a fraction of what you pay for. I wish Comcast wasn't the only ISP in my area, as do 90% of it's customers i'm sure.

 

[braneman]

wouldn't this effect things like folding at home?

 

[braneman]

wouldn't this effect things like folding at home?

 

[stromm]

Not that I'm condoning them but...

1. You pay for "Up TO X", you don't pay for X. No connection service ever guarantees you'll get your max.

2. Downloading isn't what triggers the cap. It's uploading which does.

3. It's not how much you upload, it's how fast you're uploading. You can upload 50GB all you want, but you can't upload at say 100KB/sec, you'll only get 70KB/sec.

 

[dextermat]

whaaaaat that's impossible... Bell doesn't use that kind of crooky practice. Im sure the CRTC imposes laws against that. (being ironic here)

 

[Guest]

Comcast has done that already for years!
In fact, every connection has a 'throttling' on them to provide some sort of bandwidth cap!

My connection always downloads around 1,2MB/s, and after about 15 seconds it drops to 876KB/s.

 

[mustwarnothers]

I just kicked Time Warner to the curb. The FiOS guy comes on November 12th.

Apparently Time Warner is up to this same garbage as well.

I have a bunch of games on steam (Fallout 3, Half life Series, Borderlands etc) so if I'm on TW or Comcast and I need to reinstall one of them (3-6 gigs each), I'm going to get throttled?

Eat my shit cable companies.

I'm sure Verizon's corporate sleazebag swine will implement all kinds of rules just like the cable companies, at some point, but I'm glad to have dropped Time Warner.

My Internet didn't go out the whole time we had them (1 year), and our apartment was like 10 feet from a very main street, so the bandwidth never seemed to drop.

But their Cable service, the guide would take 10 seconds to respond to commands, the screen would shake and vibrate all the time intermittently and a whole host of other annoying problems.

 

[gorehound]

Fuck you Comacast and any other ISP who does this to us.
GO TO HELL !!!

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Assholes..... so I cant play Crysis with a decent ping for more then 15 minutes anymore?

 

[1pp1k10k4m1]

I hate Comcast. I pay for the bandwidth...if I want to use if 24/7/365 they shouldn't be able to say a word about it, and what type of traffic it isn't shouldn't effect its priority. It's all top priority, because I payed for it and I want to see or do whatever i'm requesting at the time. Someone needs to sue them...class action style.

 

[duzcizgi]

I'm living in Kiev, Ukraine and I have FiOs at home. $25/month, 20Mbit guaranteed, up to 100 Mbit of bandwidth. No traffic limits. No throttle.

If you don't know where Ukraine is, it is a post-Soviet country which had practically no internet just 10 years ago.

Have a good day in US. Maybe Comcast will start offering 56K dial-up for you, of course, if you overuse your speed, they'll throttle you to 14.4K

It's funny.

 

[CoderDunn]

I don't like it, but I only have one alternative ISP (clearwire). Comcast isn't great but man is it leagues ahead from clearwire. At least I get close to if not advertised speeds while clearwire was usually around 40%.