Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit

ConsumerAffairs.com has an article up spotlighting Comcast's tendency to cuts off heavy Internet users without defining in their AUP exactly what the bandwidth limit is. Frank Carreiro of West Jordan, Utah, got cut off by the mystery limit and started a 'Comcast Broadband dispute' blog.

Comments

I know the limit!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have top secret information about the limit. They cap you if ... *internet goes dead*

Re:I know the limit!

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems that "CARRIER LOST" is receding to the status of forgotten folklore. What a pity there is no effective modern alternative.

Re:I know the limit!

[WED Fan]

Don't you mean NO CARRIER?

That's "No Career".

It's when you reach your company's limit of posting to /. on company time.

Re:I know the limit!

[Stormx2]

Arthur: What does it say?
Maynard: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea: "He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Aaaaarrrgh"'.
[pause]
Arthur: What?
Maynard: '"...The Castle of Aaaaarrrgh"'.
[pause]
Bedevere: What is that?
Maynard: He must have died while carving it.
Lancelot: [incredulous] Oh, come on!
Maynard: Well that's what it says.
Arthur: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'Aaaaarrrgh'. He'd just say it!
Maynard: Well, that's what's carved in the rock.
Galahad: Perhaps he was dictating.

Re:I know the limit!

[chrish]

Back in the BBS heyday, some doofus got mad at me for ending a post with NO CARRIER; his crappy PC terminal emulator software caught that and thought the line had been dropped, so it hung up on him.

+++ATH0 used to work sometimes, too.

Good times, good times...

In other news...

[Philotic]

Police are handing out speeding tickets to drivers who exceed secret limit.

Re:In other news...

[GundamFan]

eh... I prefer to think of AC as a massive gestalt consciousness, it doesn't know everything, but it thinks it does.

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot user #848341 knows too much and must be silenced.

How do you start a blog

[iminplaya]

if your internet is cut off?

Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit

[mctk]

All this ballyhoo about "secret" limits is complete nonsense. I've been downloading movies using bittorrent 24 hours a day for weeks. And I've never had my internet usage limi

Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit

[quokkapox]

I have both Comcast cable and AT&T DSL.

Wow. Have you ever tried seeding a torrent to yourself?

Re:_Only_ 100 GB??

[Terrasque]

I can only imagine countries where they pay half our price for 30mbps or more are laughing at this debacle. Here in norway it's 20000 kbps in for around 80 usd per month, no limitations on bandwidth.

And yes, we are laughing ;)

Re:+/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Depends. Is the house falling off a cliff onto you while you radar it?

Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit

[caluml]

Wow. Have you ever tried seeding a torrent to yourself?
Yeah, did it once. Amazing speeds. Downloaded a full movie in about the time it would take to copy it. Fantastic. Unfortunately, most of what was there I already had. Good taste in films, that tracker.

This is a trend

[arborlaw]

Sprint did the same thing two months ago -- they involuntarily terminated customers who were calling customer service too much...to complain about the customer service.

Re:+/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit.

[Cro Magnon]

It's a mobile home! A very fast mobile home.