NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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| reply to darkpixel
Re: Comcast Bandwidth Abuse/Limits - Discuss here only
said by darkpixel :
Aah--now that's interesting. I never associated 'unlimited' as a time. I always associated it with transfer--especially since cable/DSL is 'always on' (well--'mostly on' where I live). That seems kinda sneaky to advertise it as unlimited--meaning no time limit when it's a property of the very service you are subscribing to.
I never saw a Comcast ad with "unlimited service", only "unlimited access"; and that was in an ad posted from an East Coast market. Access, of course, was often limited with dial-up service (my old dial-up provider, Astragate, had no written access limit; but their support staff told me that they would kick a user after two hours of connect time. Of course, it was rare for me to spend even two hours online at a time, then. I was coming from CompuServe metered access; $9.95 per month for up to five hours, and $1.99 per minute for ever minute over 5 hours. In that environment, a 24/7 Internet connection for residential users was unheard of. And one of the benefits of paying 3x as much for Internet access as dial-up; along with the then unheard of download speeds of 1.5Mbps.
But I have never seen "unlimited" used in any unmodified way on any Comcast site.
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Norman
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