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rebus9
join:2002-03-26
Tampa Bay

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Re: Mediacom

said by Klarth:

I think you're giving them too much credit.

+1

If this was really about reducing impact on other users...

"We have a small subset of customers that are using a very large portion of the available bandwidth, which can have a negative impact on the other internet users in the surrounding area," says a Mediacom employee in our forums reading from a script. "By curbing this behavior, other customers can benefit with faster speeds."

... they would have gone to tiered throttling.

Heavy downloader hits ___GB, throttle to 75%. Next ___GB, throttle to 50%. And so forth, until they're down to a couple of Mbps.

Just follow the money trail. It's more profitable to bill for overages than throttle down heavy users.
34764170 (banned)
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON

34764170 (banned)

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Or simply not oversell their network in the name of squeezing more profits. That is what results in congestion.