| Yet another reason to be ashamed of having worked for them I have Cox at home, a full 15x2 line, and regularly download 3-4GB a day.
BUT... It's done with a multi-part download accelerator (Free Download Manager), and with my speed it takes me maybe four hours including the web surfing to find the links in the first place. Those rare times I use P2P I use eMule and I remember the most important thing is upstream saturation and I throttle my upload speed to less than half my 2Mbps max. I even more rarely use Bittorrent and I throttle that as well.
The rest of the day my connection is barely being used for maybe eight hours more and the remaining twelve hours of twenty-four not used at all other than for my Linux server to go looking for update to bug me with later. My Windows boxes are off.
Comcast has a history of going after people with less use than myself and similar only at night or one small part of the day high usage and almost nothing the rest of the time. And they are the biggest purveyor of the myth that P2P/Torrent is a huge bandwidth abuser (it can be, but they make out as if every cable modem user is doing it and not remotely enough people do to seriously screw up the system, viral connection storms are far worse in networking) as many people are leeches and hardly do any upstream. If they went only after those that saturate the upstream 24/7 they'd be hitting a fraction of a percent of the people they hit now.
I am thankful not to work for them anymore. |
