 BSD24Tier 4Premium
join:2008-04-30
Middleboro, MA
2 edits | said by meh37 :
cable operators are very smart greedy.
Any "content" I get that "comes through the Internet" is none of my cable operator's business... literally.
The caps are not always enforced. They have said that from the beginning. They always had a threshold they considered excessive, or when they should look at what the bandwidth is, like for example - spam. After about 80 emails in one day, one might want to see whats going on. AOL did the same. The FCC made Comcast put a number on it, instead of just monitoring traffic just like most major upstream and downstream backbone providers do already (ex. Cogent). They check for botnet activity, flooding, and plenty of other things. But 250 GB cap doesn't mean they will shut you off, and even if you were may not be permanent.
Speed Tier customers (old speed is 8Mbps down, some areas is now 16Mbps down) are usually less likely to be suspended for these types of issues because they purchased the extra tier because of gaming or other use that requires extra speed/bandwidth. This is why Comcast gives free gamers exclusive access and partnered with IGN (I believe they still do) for Speed Tier customers only. You can always call Comcast and appeal the decision to their security/abuse dept. anyways. I don't know about what other cable providers have in place, but I know Comcast has an abuse dept. (aka security dept.). |
