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Broadband Providers' Hidden Bandwidth Limits

Posted by kdawson on from the play-nicely-and-share dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to the Boston Globe for a story that will come as a surprise to few here: broadband suppliers will cut you off if you download too many bits. It tells the stories of several Comcast users who were warned — without specifics — that they were using "too much" bandwidth, then had their accounts summarily cancelled. Looking into the future: "...even if only a tiny fraction of customers are downloading enough to trigger the policy, that will probably change as more entertainment moves to the Internet."

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  1. Re:A /. dupe, what else is new by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok. You buy a 1 year subscription to a 3Mbps-down/256Kbps-up line. You are told, along with adverts claiming it is an unlimited line.

    They disconnect you for unspeakable limits. That is called FRAUD. No ifs ands or buts.

    If they cant maintain profitability on selling those lines for whatever they do, too bad. Not my problem. if they can only sell 512Kbps sync and keep it truthful and honest, all the better.

    If the telcos DSL circuits can do it, why not the "Pig"?

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