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Re: Acct suspended - Abust Dept?

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"Your time spent online is completely unlimited"

»www.comcast.com/Support/ ··· 202.html

jbob
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As DreamWraith mentioned, this is about connection time not bandwidth used. Two different things. This has been discussed adnauseum on the Comcast forums. Cable is a shared resource. If any one user is downloading/uploading that much they may be affecting other users on their node. I can't remember the figures but for someone to use 600 gb's in one month they'd have to be downloading/uploading a buttload of info.

This may have nothing to do with anything illegal. You can still abuse the bandwidth alloted by your ISP. If you watched live video feeds 24 hours a day I suspect you'd probbly hit your limit as well. Add multiple computers being operated in a home and it doesn't take long for it to add up.

Unfortunately as others have mentioned Comcast does not publish a set bandwidth number for us users. It is assumed to be around the 500 to 600 GB mark. They still should have sent you a warning notice though.

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Anon

Oh I see.

You can stay online as long as you want, but you can't use all of your bandwidth bandwidth during that time online.

now you get it
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now you get it

Anon

Quote "You can stay online as long as you want, but you can't use all of your bandwidth bandwidth during that time online."

Give that sub a ceegar

jbob
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Oh I see.

You can stay online as long as you want, but you can't use all of your bandwidth bandwidth during that time online.
And to further explain as I mentioned cable is a shared resource. Your node is capable of handling about 40 Gbs of bandwidth. Depending on how many users are behind your node, every other users bandwidth for a given time is affecting everyone else on that node. If you're on a 6 GB account and downloading constantly you're using about 24% of the available bandwidth for that node. Multiply any other users who might be downloading at the same time and before long every users bandwidth behind the node will be affected and their speeds will suffer. The nodes do have burst capabilites but that is only for short periods. With 6 and 8 GB accounts as the norm it doesn't take long for a node to become saturated.

And Comcast does not provide the backbone. They have to pay for the bandwidth they use as well. They pay based on some kind of 95% plan. Someone else may be better able to explain that. But suffice to say bandwidth is not free so Comcast simply figures an average for each user and is billed accordingly. Go over that arbitrary amount and you risk "The Letter", which you didn't appear to get, and possible cut-off.