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ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping
W33dz writes "News.com has an article detailing how some ISPs are now capping bandwidth usage by some of their high end users. Comcast claims this is an attempt to create better speeds for their average users, but you can't help but wonder how much of this is in response to the RIAA's subpoenas. Interestingly enough, there is no set limit, but just a subjective limit of 'more than the average user.' The World Tech Tribune has an article on the same topic."
Well... mine is already capped at 640KiBit/s.
It would be more interesting if the ISPs would start experimenting with uncapping speeds for especially law-abedient users(this group does not include me, unfortunately).
So if we start to do wide spread DOS on the "minimal users" PC's then that will bring up the average, so we can get more mp3's..
Maybe we should just apply a bell curve..
This may be implemented very simple:
#1: determine the top 10% of the users
#2: cap their bandwidth so that they're no longer in that group
#3: if (bandwidth_used > 0) goto #1
#4: sell off your backbone
#5: profit!
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
...but the good news is, you pay the same low price for involuntarily downgraded service! Thanks for using Comcast! Have a nice day!
1. sell service
2. don't deliver.
3. profit!
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i would be ok with this if the thing they were selling it as capped from the day 0 they give it to the user and had spesific rules, so that YOU KNOW WHAT YOU BUY(around here, consumer protection makes a necessity anyways).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
the Cox Communications limit in Wichita is 30GB/month or 2GB/day.
They have 15 day months in Wichita?
Trolling is a art,
The local cable monopoly is about as much of a utility company as the local whorehouse. ...though arguably with more fuckers.
I only told you I didn't keep a key for myself.
-Your Landlord.
You know what?
I had an apartment where the landlord used to come in all the time, without notice, and with dubious cause.
The last time it happened this way I had taken a day off and had just gotten back from the gun range. I heard a soft knock and a key enter the lock. When the door swung open, I was standing there with a gun in my hand asking who the guy was and what he wanted.
He mumbled something about an upgrade to the door buzzer system. I stood about 6 feet from him, gun in hand, the 5 minutes he spent in my apartment taking apart the 1920-era intercom and fishing wire from below. He said he'd be back in 10 minutes, which he was, and he installed the new unit.
After that, I never had an unannounced entry into my apartment again.
50% of the users use "more than the average user."
So, when you cut them all offline, you can give me all of that bandwidth just for myself. I promise I'm just an average guy. Really.
My neighborhood didn't lose power ... or phone service, but the cable and internet have been solidly down since the storm.
/. without internet.
You know you're good when you can post on
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
I am one of those users... I network 12 PC's at home and run kazaa on them all, my traffic light NEVER goes off... if my speed slows, I simply poison the arp table for everyone else and throttle my neighbors connection, redirecting them through a wireless laptop and laugh, mwahahahaha!
My kazaa Lite ownz joo!!!
Heh, My landlord did the same thing, till one day he found out that, since I live alone, I tend to walk around in various states of undress. I happened to be getting out of the shower and walking to the living room to turn on the TV while I got dressed and he walked in with someone to show the apartment to. I just looked at them and said, "Dunno what you want, but unless you get the fuck out now, you're gonna see a fat, nekkid man** kick the shit out of you." I've gotten phone calls ever since anytime the landlord is even coming to the building. :)
-Ab
** I'm 6'4", 285#, a part-time bouncer at a sports bar and an ex-minor league hockey player.
Nothing fails quite like prayer.
According to Comcast, just 6 percent of subscribers use about 78 percent of the company's bandwidth.
If thats true, I'm seriously impressed. Nice work.
Step 1: At the end of every month, all above-average bandwidth users get capped to that month's average bandwidth.
Step 2: Repeat every month, and pretty soon nobody gets *any* bandwidth!
Step 3: Profit!!
*sigh*
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
Actually I was thinking he'd be best leaving the pot, along with a nice note:
"Well, since you're dealing pot from my building, I have a sneaking suspicion your rent has gone up 500%"
Sincerely,
the guy with photos of your apartment full of pot.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!