knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to telcolackey
Re: Countdown...
said by telcolackey  :You call it fan-boy... I call it •Corporate-haters vs. corporate-real-world. •liberal vs. capitalist •left vs. right Broadband ISPs are making business decisions to address real business costs. If a very small number of (very vocal) users are upset that they can't share the bandwidth an ISP sold THEM with the general Internet and 3rd party content companies, then so be it. Well she is right about one thing. Their commerical or business access isn't managed. I have 5 static IPs setup for my business and I can max all five of them out at 8MB D / 1.5 MB UP 24/7 all week (which I have at times when I was reading about the Comcast traffic shaping) just to see if this was for Residential customers or if it applied to both.
I'm fairly certain that all the "management" is to push residential customers out of the way for customers like me. I can eat up all the bandwidth for the neighborhood and my neighbor on a residential connection could do nothing but suffer slow downloads and uploads at my expense.
So while I don't agree with how things handled (basically having residential and business customers all sharing the same pipe), at the same time I'm glad that I do have priority over my neighbors because I'm paying a lot more for my connection a month than they do. I expect it to be able to handle my company using it to the fullest every single day without problems or slowdowns. Which so far it does, probably at the expense of everyone in my neighborhood as I'm the only business customer here.
So sure, I'm burning up 10GB daily, but that's exactly why I have the account with Comcast, to use it to the max that they will allow. Residential customers get the short end of the stick, with the best effort. Better translations, "what's left after all the high paying customers have used what they need".
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