said by niblifar :

Price increase dollars at work, eh.

said by Matt :

Increase prices and decrease actual services provided ... it's the American way!

said by quatrix :

Also known as inflation... must be Comcast's invention.

said by Matt :

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with price increases due to inflation. But where does the Law of Inflation™ state that the services that are provided decrease in proportion to the rise in prices a company places on its customers?

said by quatrix :

Our Comcast services have never "decreased". Our broadband speed has increased by several times (something like 4/768 to 20/3) with little to no increase in price, and we're getting more and more HD channels.

said by patcat88 :

Would you rather have a line that can burst high, or a line that is very slow and you can suck all you want?

said by Matt :

So throttled speeds and a 250GB cap isn't a decrease? Interesting.

said by Matt :

So throttled speeds and a 250GB cap isn't a decrease? Interesting.

said by Matt :

Increase prices and decrease actual services provided ... it's the American way!

said by niblifar :

Price increase dollars at work, eh.

said by willp1 :

Mine has by$5.00 per month and now this. I am leaving today to another provider. The hall with Comcrap.

said by dadkins :

*MY* HSI price hasn't increased... YMMV

said by SuperWISP :

For heavy users, this constitutes a price decrease. They're getting more net bandwidth for the same money. They're just being kept from degrading other users' service.

said by RadioDoc :

Actually, this is how Comcast should have been doing it all along. For once I agree with them. World ends, film at 11.

said by swintec :

Can't wait to see the Comcast forums filled with folks who can not figure out why there speeds are so up and down.

said by dadkins :

Porn in waves?

said by Matt :

I'm sure most people will still be finished before the Powerboost time limit is reached:)

said by Matt :

I'm sure most people will still be finished before the Powerboost time limit is reached.

said by NewsgroupRev :

This all seems very short sighted. Comcast should focus on bringing more bandwidth to market rather than take it out of current customers.

- NGR
Newsgroup Reviews

said by hayabusa3303 :

Its the American way. screw who ever you can with doing alittle work as you can.

said by swintec :

Can't wait to see the Comcast forums filled with folks who can not figure out why there speeds are so up and down.

We've contacted Comcast and are awaiting confirmation that the system has been 100% implemented across all markets, and will update this entry.

said by DarkLogix :

Um ya but your not suppost to know about that

we'll have to send a T85 your way

said by ptrowski :

There goes the first day back after vacation!

said by hayabusa3303 :

other one? its like the damn rocky series.

Comcast says that sustained use of 70% of your up or downstream throughput triggers the BE state, at which point you'll find your connection at 50% speed for a period of fifteen minutes.

said by miscDude :

first off... one nitpick. I keep seeing people refer to the 250gb threshold indicated by Comcast as a "cap"... whereas I'm not sure it if truly qualifies for that in the "traditional" sense. IMO, a Cap means that you cannot ever cross it, without some sort of immediate penalty such as instant-death or overage fees. To my knowlege, Comcast has not EVER said 1 thing about charging any overage fees for exceeding 250gb in a month (vs. other like TWC who say "sure thing... you can go over your 40gb/mo cap, but it's gonna cost you.). From my read of the Excessive usage policy, Before they look to take action on an account you must meet 2 different criteria, you must 1. Exceed the 250gb threshold, and 2. be within the top 1% over overall users. Then for your first offense they contact you to give you a heads up in case you weren't aware of the usage and will work to help you identify the root cause if you weren't (open wifi, virus, etc). The odds of your Average (or slightly above average) user running into both those criteria and actually suffering from the service disconnection seem pretty slim.

said by miscDude :

Now for those of you asking why both the throttling and threshold methods? From a simple network capacity and management standpoint, I can see some very good reasons for it. The throttling, if it works properly, will help manage the bandwidth for that last mile connection to help prevent issues stemming from someone misbehaving there. The threshold number can be used to help protect their network from those "under the radar" abuses, and also with bandwidth and Capacity planning.

said by miscDude :

Now what do I mean by "under the radar" abuse? Say someone grabs a simple residential account and then runs a server at 50% of the provisioned bandwidth just pumping out spam all day long. By remaining under the 70% usage needed to trigger the throttling, it never catches them, but if the server is running 24/7 it could potentially hit that 250gb threshold and at the very least throw a red flag up so someone can actually take a closer look and have the power (and reason) to look into what's going on there. On the capacity planning front, by assigning basic bandwidth usage number to an account, you can better assess you bandwidth needs and capacity on main internet pipes they use.

said by miscDude :

True... the CMTS's and the nodes may be the big choke point right now, but by being able to quickly calculate how much room they'd need for all their customers in an area they can better plan and execute those pipes used to connect the nodes to the net-proper. Those numbers exist whether published or not, and at least we now have an idea what those numbers are.

said by SLD :

Today I noticed that my VPN connection (router to router) no longer functions. Could Comcast have mucked this up somehow? My router won't respond to pings anymore, even though it is setup to do so.

said by Maxxxt :

This is the horrible beginning of pay for QOS and priority routing that everyone interested in network neutrality should be watching closely.

Drop everyone down to BE from BPE and then the BS begins.
Then all they have to do is start offering "Our New Super VIP routing for an extra $10 a month". Or start making companies like Google.com pay more to have Comcast customers access google faster?

I hope people are watching..I Hope....