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Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking
clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcast's new traffic-throttling scheme, based on information from Comcast's latest FCC filing. "Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions. Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes. Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to – along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers – gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible. Tripping either of Comcast's high bandwidth usage rate triggers results in throttling for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilisation rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes."
well you do not have to use the service they offer. The great thing about America baring taxes and death, is that you have a choice. However, if you wish to use their service you must agree to a contract, usually in the form of a TOS. Once you agree to it then well yeah.... the terms are the terms. I am sure that if you want to use the maximum bandwidth offered 100% of the time there is a plan that you can purchase. However, I doubt that price increase will just be 43% compared to the 100% bandwidth 70% of the time plan.
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You mean the revolution that has promised 100% open source, the coup on Microsoft, the end of the DMCA, copy right roll backs and unlimited cellular voice and data service for a flat fee? Yeah, we've heard your banter time and time again and so far you haven't even made good on a single promise let alone the long grocery list of promises you keep making.
Do us a favor? Admit that you're either powerless or too lazy to deliver on your promises and fade off into the sunset. There will be no revolution and that's fine but the endless threats and promises are stinking up the place. We've already lost most of the truely informative posters around here since people like you have turned this into another Digg.
Too bad we don't have an ASA like the British do. Here, only a competitor can sue for false advertising, so a monopolist can lie all he wants.
And people wonder why ads are so cheap these days...
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