Sandvine Fuels New Comcast System > voip?

reply to baineschile

Re: Yay karl, another blunder

I will concede that its not 100%, but you must agree that it is a significant portion. Look up ANY legitamate torrent site and see what the top download of the week are.

Even with unbox and streaming netflix, xbox live and general web surfing, one would still have to watch 50+ movies per month to hit 250 gigs.

Since when did ztmike on his post every mention the word torrent? You seem to think the majority of congestion is caused by torrents lol. The majority of congestion is now caused by video services like netflix, youtube, veoh, itunes, all you can download music services, and streaming sites.

Then again it does seem like you have some stake in comcast as you never give any one anti comcast some slack.

A year ago, yes, but in the last few months streaming video has far surpassed torrents as the largest use of bandwidth.

No it hasn't.

reply to ztmike

said by ztmike:

said by baineschile:

And BTW, people that use more than 250 gigs a month are piraters anyways, and I am glad to see ISPs getting involved in young males using 80% of their bandwidth so they can download bootleg copies of ironman.

You seriously think people use all that bandwidth for illegal ways? There is so much stuff out there that IS LEGAL that will no longer be possible because Comcast can't just keep their current formula and then upgrade their system with D3..that would make to much sense for Comcast.

I guess they would rather get their healthy profits and video walls instead of screwing over their internet users.

I would like to know that as well. I live with two college roommates. the cable is in my name and i pay for it so i can the speed and service i want from my cable company.

Myself and one roommate watch videos on CNN and listen to online radio stations from Clear Channel, plus I have Vonage hooked up, the other watches shows online that she missed from earlier in the week from ABC and NBC. We still do windows updates and I send large documents across the country for various projects I volunteer with and does not include any of the class work either of the other two roommates have to upload for their online classes and we never come close to the 250 gig mark of Comcast.

reply to imrf
TK, is that you?

reply to BF69
You do realize that they will throttle you, the light/regular consumer, when you're downloading that 5-6GB game demo or patch or uploading that 1-2GB full SD card of family vacation pictures. You will be treated like the thieving heavy abuser that you are...even if you only use less than 10 GB a month total.

Getting all hung up on 250GB cap only allows you to miss how comcast's lack of network capacity planning and deployment will now affect all users on congested nodes trying to use the bandwidth they pay for even if they are light, bursty sporadic, users. Gone are the days of abusers and pirates being the only ones affected.