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I'd sue the company for doing stupid things like this.

America, why are you so big? If you were tiny like Japan I would be watching HDTV and downloading 100 gigs of ***** a day

I love my ISP. They are a local company called Everest. Really cheap cable, phone, and broadband. True unlimited internet access, torrents allowed, and I signed up for the 512 kbps service (because I'm cheap like that) but next month they are upgrading me to 1.0 Mbps, "just because" for free!

I really feel sorry for all the Comcast customers. If you live in the Kansas City area, I highly recommend you check them out. Sorry to sound like an ad, but I just really love those guys. I'm hoping they go national. They've all but killed Time Warner which used to be a monopoly here and if they went national they would bring real competition to the market.

" a customer would have to download the equivalent of 1,000 songs or four feature films a day to trigger a disconnection warning. "

As much as i am against Comcast for limiting bandwidth on unlimitred plans, who [average joe] could use that much bandwidth? Its not like you're hosting a website or something.

FiOS. It's way better than Comcast.

Up here in Canada Shaw Cable disables our internet (but still bill us for it) if we download too much until we phone them.
It's *****.

i think if they decide to shut off some accounts, they should also get rid of the word unlimited and replace it with a number, so people have an idea of when they'll get hosed over.

Call the BBB

wtf, that's *****. Comcast can't just say "***** the contracts" and do that can they?

"Comcast gives customers a month to fix problems or upgrade their service before they are disconnected, the Washington Post said."

Upgrade to what? All their options are unlimited usage as far as I'm aware. They don't say when you order service that there is any sort of bandwidth limit. If they want to have limited and unlimited options they need to be up front about it.

If you pay for 6mbps you should get that all year long not just when they feel like giving it to you. Contrary to comcast commercials where they say you get the same speed anywhere its not true, Ive seen fluctuations of 2mbps to 4mbps and rarely 6mbps.

Look, just tell us what the download limits are, and stop dicking around with "unlimited" promises if you aren't going to keep them. Christ.

I don't really know whats cox's stance is on the subject is, but they haven't done me wrong yet.

They called me too - the thing is I hadn't downloaded anything through bittorrent or anything like that. Downloads aren't everything - I have VOIP through Vonage, have auto-downloads set through my Xbox for arcade games, download videos and demos legally through my Xbox 360. I am on the internet constantly. I also watch all my TV streamed over the internet. Comcast shouldn't be blaming their customers for staying up with the times.

If I pay for unlimited internet, I expect to get unlimited internet.

We dont have an issue with Comcast limiting the bandwidth, except they advertise it as UNLIMITED. If they just said 200 gigs a month no one would complain. Well a hell of a lot less people would be complaining.

COMCAST: Define what you consider excessive if you want people to comply with your rules!

Comcast is such crap. It should be illegal for them to advertise the speeds they claim to get. I have never gotten more than 600K download with them. I Moved to South Korea and now get 4Meg Upload and download. When ever i get a good torrent going it goes the full 4 meg speed. There is no upload cap. All it costs is 35 a month, and it's DSL.

I wish we had FIOS in South Florida......

Yet another reason to hate Comca$t.... yet another 800-lb gorilla that pushes their weight around and screws their customers....

The population of Digg is going to be devastated

I used comcast and my internet was down for 6 hours today. So were my neighbors ;this is bullshimies. We dont download things a lot and have never recieved a durn warning. Im complaining.

This is a disturbing trend. Corporations want people to pay for their survice, but the corporations don't want to provide the service. They are happy to just recieve payment every month without providing anything.

Pay for internet -> Download a lot -> Internet company says ***** off
Pay for phone service -> Call customer service a lot -> Phone company says ***** off
Pay for medical insurance -> Become ill -> It's cheaper to let you die, you *****.

Here's the way it works. If I buy a 500 KBPS connection, that means I should be able to download at 500 KBPS, with a reasonable number of slowdowns, 24/7 for the duration of my contract. That's what I'm paying for. If you can't or won't provide that service, then ***** you.

Its very easy to use 4GB of bandwidth each day LEGALLY.

That is a LOT of downloading. I doubt I download that much in a year! But then, my computer is pretty crappy

Tubes are starting to get clogged?

If I could, I would MOVE to JAPAN just to get their 61 mbps internet... seriously man...WTF is wrong with us and our puny ass internet?!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801990.html

Does OOL do this this too? (i dont know if they advertise unlimited) but no, 4gb is nothing a day when using XBL to download movies and tv shows, and then there's joost, so I probably use about 6-7gb a day, easy. But at some point, will they shut me off?

I don't see what everyone's whining about. It's a free market. If you don't like the service being provided to you, you can just switch over to the other cable compa..... oooooh, riiiiight.

if you got dialup speeds for $35 a month when im supposed to get 5 mb downloads you would'nt care how they fixed it.

they are only trying to helping those people out that suffers from "Internet Addiction Disorder"
But seriously, I think the way the cable internet is design the bandwidth is being shared through out the ISP's customers in that zone, if one user "hogs" up the bandwidth, it would slow down the other customers speeds. DSL is starting to look more attractive.

There seems to be some people that don't understand how cable and DSL works with regards to bandwidth.

Cable: you are part of a pipe that connects your entire area. we'll just say that it's max capacity is 1000mb. There are 500 people that connect to that pipe and have cable internet with 10mbps connections. If 50 people are using their full 10mbps all the time, the other 450 have 500mbps to use without slowdowns happening to the 50 that are downloading. If those 450 are using more than 1mbps constantly, then you get slowdowns.

DSL: Your connection goes straight to the main office which has direct access to their backbone, which is HUGE. If 500 people in your area have DSL and you all use 100% of your bandwidth all the time, you should not get any slow downs because of everyone else, assuming the backbone will actually support 100% usage.

they have been doing this for years. I got cut off about 4 years back. Went to dsl, sure its a bit slower (3mps vs 6mps) but they havent cared one bit about what i use my connection for. Cable oversell the lines to stay profitable, and i understand that some degree of oversell is needed. but if every 6 months they skim off the top 5-10% of users, and it looks like that is about what they are doing, when will using things like netflix on demand, youtube, WOW, and itunes trigger the kill.
I really hate cable companies for this, I got one warning and they said "tone it down for a month" So i didnt use my computer at all. and they still cut me with the excuse "your usage was so high, it didnt matter" Apparently about 40 gig plus online mutliplayer ***** them off.

This is for all of the people who think that 600GB worth of downloads is ONLY done from those who are pirates, porn freaks, etc.

Okay, let's start off with the fact that both your internet and cable televisions signals come through the same pipe (coax). That's why you need a de-multiplexer (cable modem) to seperate your tv from the internet.
Source: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cable-modem2.htm

Now, Comcast has on demand. Now let's assume that all "live" tv is always accounted for and is always being streamed to every house and that it doesn't affect the bandwidth in your area. So this means that anything that you watch from "ON DEMAND" will be using up additional bandwidth since it only gets sent to you when you ask for it. In my book, this is called downloading. Legal downloading in fact.

To illustrate this point, since I only watch HD movies and tv shows, I watch 2-3 movies and my girlfriend watches 2 one hour shows each week from One Demand. Lord knows what her 18 year old son watches, but it could be even more ON Demand content. By the way, these are the free shows. Since HD content runs about 4 GB/hour, that alone is about 24-32 GB per week. That means I download about 100-130 GB per month. Now wait until I get two more HDTV boxes for the other tvs in my house when I upgrade those TVs from SDTV to HDTV. So if I decide to watch 12 hours of HD programmer each week on each of the three tvs, I would see about 144 hours of HD content which is about 600GB. All of that would be legal downloading which would be using only their equipment and it would only be tv broadcasts. Then will I get booted for downloading too much stuff?! I didn't even get to the online services that I use which are legal. (iTunes, youtube, break.com, netflix - yes they started internet downloads but I haven't used it yet, etc)

So just keep in mind, you can download a lot of stuff without actually breaking the law.

i hope google will come out with a better internet plan that will kill comcast or give these cable companies real competition

Don't they cap the speeds enough?! Sheesh, one of the slowest online countries in the world and they're taking even more speed away. Bandwidth wouldn't be a problem if the cheapskate corporations would start using affordable fiber optics like the rest of the world.

FiOS enough said.

According to the Washington Post, a customer would have to download the equivalent of 1,000 songs or eat four babies a day to trigger a disconnection warning.

If they tell you its unlimited Internet in the advertisement but the cut you off at 200g, that's false advertising.

Every month or two, just when I'm considering switching back to Comcast so I can avoid having to pay for the phone line I don't use for that's required to have DSL (I really hope this situation changes sometime soon, but I don't have my fingers crossed), a story like this pops up, and I remember why I cancelled in the first place.

I will take Qwest DSL any day over Comcast cable ***** Internet service.

I only pay $35/month for Qwest DSL where I live with no bandwidth limits. My download speed is 7.0 Mbps and 896 Kbps upload. So, I am quite happy with them, and they are very reliable and have great service IMO!

For the love of God why do they always say Online Gaming is contributing to the lack of bandwidth? Most online games are still geared to be playable over 56k and even those that aren't still use a tiny amount of bandwidth per second compared to the average users total capacity. Online Gaming is latency sensitive not bandwidth sensitive when will they stop throwing gaming in there for good measure. I can play World of Warcraft and talk over Teamspeak using the 25.9 kbit codec using a Treo 650 connected with PDAnet yeah the latency is high but bandwidth isn't the issue. So next time someone sites Online Gaming as a source of the bandwidth crunch consider that even if you played all day and talked using voicechat all day you'd only use several hundred megabytes. About 3 albums less than 60 songs.

Those of us who use them lets show them the positives of capitalism send them email and quit for other providers.

Got to love these monopolies. Where I live(Ottawa, Ontario) it's either Rogers cable or Bell Sympatico. Both have their own problems. I'm pretty confident they simply collude with each other as to how to best screw the customer.

Considering how little they innovate and how much they can charge I just wish they were crown coorporations. This way they would at least have to pretend that they there to serve us.