Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

New Broadband Capping Techniques?

Posted by Cliff on from the stuff-to-watch-out-for dept.

doublea16 writes "Upon calling my broadband cable company to see why my modem's upstream was so slow as of late, I was told I had been capped due to excessive uploads. When I dug deeper for more details, I was finally told by a manager that any upload in excess of 35 minutes (size of file or type, etc have no bearing) would result in an automatic capping of the user's upstream. The Terms of Service provided are very vague when it comes to their rights to restrict speed. I was wondering if anyone else out there's broadband company had resorted to tactics like this? Is this fair to the consumers or even legal?"

2 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. I had the same problem. by Alpha27 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I meet this girl on irc, and I thought we were hitting it off great. We were talking dirty by the 3 convo, cybering by the 5, then she said you wanna me IRL by the 7th. I thought cool, I'm getting laid....

    Well miss thing capped my advances once I was sliding my hand down her pants. I said, "baby, it's just like IRC, the only difference is you get to reach out and touch some one." Then she slapped me. So yeah, I've been capped by broad-band.

    =)

  2. Re:WTF by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you went to an all you can eat buffet (to use your analogy) and after you got there they told you that after the first plate full you could only have one bite every five minutes (i.e. you were rate capped), they would be commiting fraud since this is not "all you can eat."

    Flip Wilson, circa 1970:
    I went to a place with a sign "All you can eat for a dollar." The man gave me a plate a food, but when I asked for more he said no.
    I said "But the sign said 'All you can eat for a dollar'" and the man said "And that's all you can eat, for a dollar!"

    --