| Cable One CAPS All of you need to read CableOne's 'agreement':
excerpt:
Bandwidth, Data Storage and Other Limitations
The Cable One network is designed for typical usage by a computer user seated at his or her keyboard. Computer activity resulting in excessive or sustained bandwidth consumption such as from unattended computer activity may burden the network and such usage may be restricted. It is therefore essential that you comply with the current bandwidth, data throughput, file storage and other limitations on the Services. Users must ensure their activity does not improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any other user's use of the Services, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Cable One, Inc.) an unusually large burden on the network itself. In addition, users must ensure that their activity does not improperly restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede Cable One, Inc.'s ability to deliver the Services and monitor the Services, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services. Cable One provisions all customers with up to at least Standard Speeds or higher. Nearly all customers will experience Extended Speeds and remain provisioned at that level. Customers who exceed threshold limits remain at Standard speeds during the enforcement period. The enforcement period begins mid-afternoon and continues until approximately midnight. For example: A "Residential" customer getting extended speeds who consumes 675 MB during the measurement period will automatically change provisioning to Standard Speeds until midnight of that day. Cable One may, without notice, modify the speed, interrupt, or prohibit such data traffic. We also collect data on customer traffic pattern usage through the use of traffic management software. The analysis is provided as broad categories of usage and enables Cable One to modify, when necessary, the amount of bandwidth you have available for any general category of use if, in Cable One’s sole judgment, your bandwidth consumption is excessive generally or in any particular category. In addition, users must ensure that their activity does not improperly restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede Cable One, Inc.'s ability to deliver the Services and monitor the Services, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services.
Enough said. I don't like the CAPS either, but they (CableOne) is not violating any agreemnt. |
