Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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Re: Are my Comcast OnDemand HD movies capped?
You hit the nail on the head: capping/throttling is not
being done because of piracy - that's just a strawman. The real
reason is to stifle the competition to their own video on
demand service.
IOW, the motivation for this is pure greed.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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Hunter68
join:2001-12-01
North Haven, CT | Will comcast offer a tool to determine how much bandwidth you have used month to date so that you do not go over the cap? |
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voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT | If they don't you can download AnalogX's NetStatLive -- it's a free utility.
my AnalogX's website download link for NetStatLive |
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs: | Most host-based bandwidth meters including AnalogX's NSL do not separate LAN and WAN traffic.
Sure if you only have one computer it's fine.. |
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threetrolls
join:2003-04-19
Bellevue, WA
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I agree. They are capping 14.1 million customers to deal with .1% of the users? BS.
They see the same future as Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the others. Watching movies and TV shows (are they still TV shows?) over the Internet is the way things are going and they are doing what they can to nip their competition in the bud.
With the caps as high as they are, it will allow the fledgling Internet based VOD/TV industry to grow (for a while). As the competition heats up and the industry offers higher quality content that competes directly with Comcasts offerings (and consuming much more bandwidth), they will use smoke and mirrors to point to the previous years and claim that caps haven't hurt competition as the industry has only grown.
It's a smart move. |
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