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K Patterson
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join:2006-03-12
Columbus, OH

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K Patterson to aefstoggaflm

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Re: Bandwidth Limits - Comcast vs. Verizon FiOS/Cox/ATT

Moreover, I have never seen any restrictions such as:

"(Att at 50 gig, Cox cable at 150gig, and Verizon DSL at 200 gig)"

as posted by metal80772 above.
jsgiv
join:2009-03-01
Woodstock, GA

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jsgiv

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said by K Patterson:

Moreover, I have never seen any restrictions such as:

"(Att at 50 gig, Cox cable at 150gig, and Verizon DSL at 200 gig)"

as posted by metal80772 above.
Cox: »ww2.cox.com//aboutus/pol ··· ons_0609

Updated recently for your viewing pleasure.. - caps are "restricted" based on plan. That doesn't mean that Cox is/has been actively enforcing those restrictions however.

ATT - is/has been evaluating using caps: »/r0/do ··· tcap.png

Whether or not it happens - (again there's that enforcement scenario) - is another question yet to be answered...

And evidently Verizon (as do all/most other ISPs, I'm sure) also has that "vague" cap/limitation clause in their TOS to cover any scenarios where they can terminate service in the event of "abuse" of said service. Apparently - Comcast's current definition of "abuse" is when someone approaches 3x their allotted/defined cap.

It'll be interesting to see how long Verizon holds out with regards to implementing caps. Not that it matters much to me as they're not available in my area anyway..
K Patterson
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join:2006-03-12
Columbus, OH

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K Patterson

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That was a good catch!

I don't think we've seen that data here before.

Thanks.