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Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit

Posted by kdawson on from the we-won't-tell-you-and-we-won't-tell-you-why dept.

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.

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  1. I know the limit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:I know the limit! by WED+Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    2. Re:I know the limit! by Stormx2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    3. Re:I know the limit! by chrish · · Score: 5, Funny

      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...

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  2. In other news... by Philotic · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit by mctk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  4. Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have both Comcast cable and AT&T DSL.

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

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  5. Re:+/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  6. Re:DSL slower but I've never heard of a limit by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:+/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit. by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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