said by JohnInSJ:

22gb is a fair bit. If someone decided to download a season or two of tv shows via torrents, and opted for the 1gb per show "HD" capture, that would easily do it. Or they downloaded 5 "discography" illegal mp3 rips.

Or they spent $4,460.544 on iTunes ;)

Or they downloaded every linux distro they could find. Twice.

said by JohnInSJ:

Anway, sure, 20+gb is easy enough to do, if you're turning an entire building loose on your connection.

said by blacad :

but i have a hard time believing i dbled bandwidth consumption in one month... seriously

and currently my Feb usage (right now) is 144 gigs... it was 122 last night... so seriously, 22 gigs from 3am til 1pm????

said by saywatcomcas :

am like what the cap for the Economy Internet Service
that is 1mb DOWN max
and their like, their cap is also 250g,

am like, am paying 4 times what they pay for 50mb line

THEY told me the problem is actually how the system is designed, so in effect, it is working as it is supposed to, according to them.

said by fuziwuzi:

The problem occurs whether using FTP or P2P, doesn't matter, anything involving a large file transfer. Problem occurs regardless of the presence of a router or not (i.e. plugging directly into the modem). Problem occurs with my own modem or a borrowed modem from the Comcast technician. Problem occurs regardless of operating system or computer (1 WinXP, 2 Win7 64-bit, 1 Macbook Pro).

said by fuziwuzi:

Comcast, via their CSRs and several onsite technicians say I have 12/2 service, are you saying they've lied to me?

said by fuziwuzi:

iSo, then, my observations tell me one thing while you guys say something else. I believe my own eyes over propaganda.

said by fuziwuzi:

Now, using your analogy, what if 9 of the customers aren't even using their system, say it is after hours and they've shut down. But the 1 remaining user tries to do a data transfer using the full bandwidth of the system. Under the Comcast method, that user would still be "packet prioritized" and his EFFECTIVE SPEED for that transfer would be attenuated.

said by funchords:

QoS is connotative of using prioritization, but QoS is also connotative of guarantees of service, discrimination between different applications, meeting some specific quality goal (latency/jitter/throughput/reduced error rates).

said by fuziwuzi:

I'm not saying Comcast is wrong for doing this. My only complaint is of the marketing and "propaganda" that tries to obfuscate reality. I know all of the companies do this, I just wish someone would have the cojones to stop that practice and be upfront.