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- tomcat4u, on 10/10/2007, -11/+176America, why are you so big? If you were tiny like Japan I would be watching HDTV and downloading 100 gigs of ***** a day
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+103i 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.
- n474r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+98If I pay for unlimited internet, I expect to get unlimited internet.
- jessestay, on 01/21/2009, -0/+83They 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.
- Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -2/+76This 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 *****. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+84I'd sue the company for doing stupid things like this.
- totorototoro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+63Look, just tell us what the download limits are, and stop dicking around with "unlimited" promises if you aren't going to keep them. Christ.
- alricsca, on 10/10/2007, -5/+68Please do perpetuate the industry planted concept that the US lacks speed because it is so large a country. The Internet is not spread across every point in that nation evenly. Cities like New York, San Francisco, and Houston are every bit as dense as cities in Norway and Japan, but their speed is still slow. If the issue was the size of the country, why are they unable to service these cities? For that matter, Canada gets high speed in many country areas too. What the industry there wants to do is provide one little incremental tier after the other and make Americans pay for every last drip they dole out, knowing very well that they could increase the the speed many many times if they would just start moving forward with fiber and faster protocols. The sad fact is, Americans are too damn stupid to realize they have become second bit players in the on-line world. They are willing to buy whatever the industry tells them is premium service because they are too damn introverted to look outside their own borders and see what is really going on. They are becoming laughing stocks, for the rest of the Internet community.
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+62the tubes.... they can't handle anymore..... arghhhhh
- yunus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+60We 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! - MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -0/+57And available to only 2 houses in the United States
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -6/+53I 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. - macrymble, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44I 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.
- NicksVideo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+48Ever hear of Usenet? It's very possible to download all that and more in a day with a cable connection.
- kentifer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44Up 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 *****. - Hegemony, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39"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. - Protoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39And available in only a few markets...
- MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -6/+43And on top of that, 1 MBPS service is real *****!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Call the BBB
- smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37If 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.
- MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32Yea it's not like some big dump truck.
- ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31Shhh. DON'T talk about usenet!
- dweeb79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27Just an FYI. Your local service provider is purchasing bandwidth from an upstream provider. The upstream provider may increase their rates which would then cause a trickle down affect. Also they "may" be purchasing bandwidth from Time Warner.
- realwx, on 10/10/2007, -5/+32FiOS. It's way better than Comcast.
- ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29FiOS sucks. I can't get more than 19.75mbps sustained download with my 20mbps plan. Class action, anyone?
- nixonrichard, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29No, you'd enter into binding arbitration with the company for doing stupid things like this.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Comcast 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.
- windohs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22In Korea I could get 100/100 symmetrical for $40 USD a month (luckily I can get 30/5 with OOL Boost for $50 a month)
US Broadband is pathetic...we even have friggen satellite broadband for the walmart crowd for the low low price of 65+ dollars a month for 512 kb/s yay - leighedwards, on 01/29/2009, -0/+21wtf, that's *****. Comcast can't just say "***** the contracts" and do that can they?
- MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22No, you can usually pull forced arbitration invalid. You gotta read consumerist
- zweben, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19They offer service that they advertise as 'unlimited'. They will cut off user's access of the 'unlimited' bandwidth after they cross a certain undisclosed limit.
- windohs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Download? What is this Download you speak of?
In COMCASTIC LAND everyone pays 100 + dollars a month for a triple play with 7 mb connections and only use it to check emails - logandurand, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Here'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.
- cultist667, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Tortoise and the hare. Slow and steady gets more torrents while the comcast hare gets traffic shaped and capped. FU comcast. Its *****!!!!
- unearth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Haha, I was getting all e-raged and ready to digg you down, too. I'm kind of disappointed now.
- backslashdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19This 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. - Whiteknight117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16The population of Digg is going to be devastated
- DMDekoth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Buy Bioshock via Steam, get shut down by Comcast! (It's a 6GB download)
- AeroGuy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I could. I sometimes work from home and need to move massive amounts of data to and fro at times. I would be willing to purchase a plan that allows this, but, hey, you know what? They all advertise them as unlimited. Then they get bent out of shape when someone takes them at their word and actually uses the bandwidth. Nobody has complained to me so far, but I get annoyed by their failure to offer a different plan (or at least to decide on a limit for use to watch out for) for those of us who need to be bandwidth hogs. At least they forfeit their right to complain IMHO.
- mastercheif, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Wow, I have 1/2 the FiOS coverage in the US?
- TroubleInMind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15The people being punished and throttled back as abusers by Comcast still have more bandwidth than you do.
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Well, in most areas they're a monopoly, so...
- DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Porn.
- suprchunk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Blame Canaduh!
- DeadPain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13if that is true then "the equivalent" means 4 GB of anything, not just music or movies :/ you know how big are some linux .iso files? so just by downloading one dvd sized iso you are pretty much ***** :(
- gfnw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Even if we just look at legal uses, in this day in age it's more than possible:
We have the classic example of Linux ISOs. Most range from CD sized (600-700mb) to DVD sized (4.7gb).
Game demos these days can be upwards of 1gb in size. Most MMO free trials are larger than that as they usually require you to download the full retail client to play. For World of Warcraft for example, you're looking at 6+ GB for the client plus the expansion, both of which are avaliable legally for download for both trial and full customers.
Many gaming media sites now provide high-def videos of trailers, movies, shows etc. These are usually multiple hundreds of MB in size.
Services like Direct to Drive and Steam which allow users to purchase games and download the full versions direct to thier computer are popular now, with many modern games reaching 4, 6 and even 8gb in size. Bioshock was mentioned above, weighing in at 6gb for a perfectly legitimate download, and that's only one game. I myself have purchased multiple games through Steam, each one at multiple gigs in size.
Podcasts and other media on the web is reaching increasingly large sizes. The latest episode of Diggnation in HD is 650mb. - Theoxenmooving, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Because the dude sucking down all the packets ALSO paid for unlimited service. If comcast doesn't like him hogging the intertubes, maybe they should upgrade their infrastructure with the money and tax breaks they were given by Congress.
And FTA: 1000 songs a day to trigger a disconnection warning... 3MB a song, 1000 songs, so something around 3GB to trigger a disconnection warning? I could see doing that in a day. Legally. A Linux DVD ISO, download a movie off of iTunes, and an hours or so worth of youtube (or watching Zeitgeist on Google Video) viewing could add up to 3 GB. - ftldelay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Yet another reason to hate Comca$t.... yet another 800-lb gorilla that pushes their weight around and screws their customers....
- christpr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12you guys think america is bad? try living in Australia....
- refreshers, on 10/10/2007, -11/+23" 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. -
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