Comcast users should exercise their power a little bit. Comcast did this as a protest to the FCC "sanctioning" them over bit torrent throttling. Perhaps Comcast users should organize a little bit and see just how much capacity Comcast really has. If a half million or so users decided to fill their pipes for a few hours with the largest files from the fastest servers on the net they can find - and all at the same time maybe the day before the cap goes into effect... Well, maybe a couple of things would come to light. Is comcast lying about their capacity? If they are, it will become evident. If they are not and such activity brings large portions of their network down, then it would serve as a nice little protest that they would have to take heed of. That's the sort of power the users really have. No one would be violating the TOS... Food for thought.
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Comcast users should exercise their power a little bit. Comcast did this as a protest to the FCC "sanctioning" them over bit torrent throttling. Perhaps Comcast users should organize a little bit and see just how much capacity Comcast really has. If a half million or so users decided to fill their pipes for a few hours with the largest files from the fastest servers on the net they can find - and all at the same time maybe the day before the cap goes into effect... Well, maybe a couple of things would come to light. Is comcast lying about their capacity? If they are, it will become evident. If they are not and such activity brings large portions of their network down, then it would serve as a nice little protest that they would have to take heed of. That's the sort of power the users really have. No one would be violating the TOS... Food for thought.