I'm just afraid that immunity will send the message, that it's okay to violate civil rights, if the government asks you to. The government is the last people you should want violating your rights, it says so right in the constitution.
But the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper! GWB said so;-)
All kidding aside, it's unreal just how much these retards in Government seem to be acting out scene from Babylon5 Season 3. I'm serious. We were just watching it recently and it occurred to me that they use the same style wording to make it sound like they are doing a good thing.
Substitute Homeland Security for the 'Ministry of Peace' and groups Guarding events like the Seattle WTO meetings for 'Nightwatch'.
Sure looks the same and this stuff was filmed in the 90's.
What - you thought you were Microsofts' customer? You're a consumer, not a customer. And you'll consume whatever they feed you, until you get sick of it and either die or switch.
Switching is easy if you have Ubuntu:-)
I've switched several of my systems already to 7.04 (looking at 7.10) and I'm down to only two Windows systems. One will need to stay (for now) with Wintendo and the other will be replaced in another couple months.
The motivation came after I checked out Vista. No I don't hate Microsoft. They are the reason I've been so busy these last few years. If they wrote good software then I'd probably be unemployed:D
Heh. I read that while having a few traceroutes running in other windows, testing times to a few sites in Iran. All of them do pretty well from here (Boston) as far as the sites in New York, Amsterdam, and Turkey, with ping times mostly under 200 ms. Then the packets go to numbered machines without DNS addresses, and the ping times jump to over 500 ms. I'd thought that this was probably a sign of satellite hops, but now I wonder. Maybe it's just that we've slashdotted all the routers. Ya think?
The government site at www.iran.ir doesn't repond to pings, but it does respond on port 80 in the usual manner. It is sorta slow, but firefox doesn't time it out.
I don't read Farsi, so I can't tell much about what it says. There are some familiar faces at the upper left, though.;-)
Actually it's far more sinister than people imagine.
They push a story out about Iran's Intenet being down, everyone who's interested in Iran pings their servers to death, HomeLand Security (TM) captures that information and monitors you for the rest of your life because after all, you must be a terrorist if you are pinging Iran:-)
Almost sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy "You Might be a RedNeck" joke doesn't it;D
So does that mean only 5 percent of their customers are making good use of what they paid for?
That's how I read it. But then again if you use what you paid for you risk being terminated for 12 months. Oh I'm sorry... I thought we were talking about Concast. My bad.
I didn't realize another company was starting to do this too;-)
Well that's one way to solve the problem - ensure that the US gets wiped off the face of the planet by legitimising *everyone* with a grudge against the US and adding a few more to the number of people the US pisses off.
You keep saying the US but are you aware there are American's living IN the US who don't want to be in a war? It's a great majority of us if you listen to the news and hear the poll numbers coming in.
Sure, there are times where you need to kick ass and fight. Most of American's don't believe this is one of them. And sure 9/11 did demand a response. But switching from a representative democracy to stepping on the road to a fasict state? The implications are frightening.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this. Don't confused the Government we have with the people. Most of us aren't being represented.
I know. I've been working with our crazy politicians to get something going with a broadband policy and now I'm hearing we have one and it's working great!!
You decide who's being represented. It sure as hell isn't the American majority.
Just because the company you are with doesn't tell you what your limit is doesn't mean there isn't one.
I've been pushing our politicians to wake up and provide a Broadband plan. Anything other than sitting on their hands to get them warm again. And to hear President Bush say it's working great?
Sorry but he's more of a ditz than I took him for.
. . but didn't we already pay $200 billion to get 45Mb/s fiber starting in the late 90s? I seem to remember how the telecomes complained that they didn't have the money to do it. And Congress passed the Telecom Act of 1996 to allow them to charge fees to help fund an infrastructure upgrade. Ten years later we barely have fiber and that fiber is dramatically slower and more expensive than promised. And you have to pay for it to be installed.
Yeah and the $200 Billion is a conservative estimate from what I'm seeing. I've been http://comcastissue.blogspot.com/>blogging about it for some time and run into other's who have better information about it. One guy got really deep into it and even published an ebook about it. I have the link on my blog somewhere.. I'd have to check but I found him through google and he was kind enough to explain to me some of what he found. It's unbelievable!
The fiber was supposed to go to every home and business and completed by 2006 I believe.
if it was in place, companies like Concast wouldn't be terminating people's internet for using it too much (without disclosing what the hell that means) nor blocking / forging bit torrent packets. They would be fighting for your business like any other business.
By keeping old apps running on their latest OS, they make surepeople have no real incentive to switch their old apps to a different OS. See the recent IE7 and IE8 debate where companies who build their intranet apps for IE6 are faced with having to alter them. Why if you have to pay developer anyway, why not make the app browser neutral and avoid having to do the same for IE9? Force people to chance and they might chance in a direction you do not like.
Thing is people are learning that backwards compatibility isn't working very well with Vista. I've been telling my neighbors who purchased a brand new computer with Vista pre-installed to stop bugging me about reinstalling/recovering Vista. They have their programs which worked fine in XP loaded up and crashing Vista to the point of no longer even booting.
It's frustrating software and my recommendation is to stick with XP or move to Linux / Apple. No reason to stick with Windows... unless you just must have the latest games too:D
If ISP's didn't oversell bandwidth you would be paying $300/month for internet access.
Overselling isn't the problem. Way, way overselling is. Some things can be oversold without a problem, including bandwidth.
Correct me but it sounds like you are saying they can advertise services but don't have to provide services AS advertised.
At least that's how I'm reading it.
Speaking of which, lookup the NII from 1994. Seems companies have received over 200 Billion in our tax money to build the new fiber infrastructure. They already have been paid IN ADVANCE to build plenty of infrastructure.
I heard that when you switch to FIOS they remove your POTS lines.
Also, from what I'm guessing, it you don't like your ISP providing the FIOS connection, you cannot get another ISP that can use that FIOS connection.
IOW: you are just locking yourself into another monopoly.
which is why I've been advocating projects such as Utopia here in Utah. If you have a company treat you like garbage (like Concast) then you simply FIRE them and get another provider over the same lines.
It forces companies to behave or go bankrupt.
Would would want to do business with a company that treats you like slim?
Although there is some sense to what you are suggesting, there is still one problem: Unlimited MEANS unlimited. If you sell users an unlimited plan, it is UNLIMITED. If you sell them that plan then decide that it is only unlimited for certain types of traffic packets, well, that is just not legal. If you buy a car, you have reasonable expectations that it will work on ALL highways. If you buy an unlimited Internet plan, you have reasonable expectations that it will work for all Internet protocol types and traffic.
Unlimited means limited if you are a Concast customer.
Most of my neighborhood signed up years ago when they were advertising "Unlimited use for a flat monthly fee". Then a few of us were booted last year for using the Internet too much.
Quite lame but that's the truth. Many of us have been told we must have been doing something wrong like running a server or downloading illegal content. Guess what. That's not what we were accused of. And yes, there are many services which use IPTV, Internet radio and P2P legally. I tell them to get over it.
We've been blogging about it for nearly a year now. Nearly 75,000 hits! It's important to people. Either it's Unlimited or it's not. And if not, then companies need to grow a spine and disclose what people REALLY paid for. Otherwise it's false advertising (translation... they lied).
BTW, Concast is spamming our mail box for my family to resubscribe with them. We were terminated and told after 12 months we could resubscribe. Think we will?;-)
Here is our answer to Concast via a video we created. Enjoy:D
I'm not applauding the move but I call what I have reasonable. Before this plan I'm on, I had a so called "unlimited" plan. Unlimited? Yeah right! The fineprint said unlimited subject to an "acceptable use policy", stating that if my volume is more than 10 times the average usage (where average meant take the top and bottom 5% away and calculate the average from what's left...), I get cut off 'til the end of the month. The deal I have now not only costs less, it also gives me substantially more traffic than the "unlimited" deal.
Limited bandwidth and unlimited traffic don't go too well together. But of course ISPs shouldn't advertise unlimited plans if they can't keep their promises.
I spoke with Bill Gephart about this. He said that it sounds they are saying that Unlimited now means Limited. Yeah... he was pretty frustrated with that crap also.
It's one thing to advertise a service as unlimited... it's false advertising when you don't deliver. And yeah I know that Concast no longer advertises that. But when I was a Concast customer I thought it still was unlimited. After all, that's what the advertisement said when my neighborhood signed up.
Speaking of which, now that the 12 months termination is over, Concast wants me to sign back up with them. What a load of $^!&! I've received a number of advertisements over the last week (nearly every day now). So I'm making a quick video with my response and posting on youtube. I figure I can have some fun with these jokers.:=-)
TWC doesn't want to run an entirely new infrastructure just to satisfy the people who are using the most bandwidth. And if they are going to go through the trouble to upgrade infrastructure, they need to have a financial benefit to doing such (i.e. more users paying more for more bandwidth.) They are already going to have to invest in new lines once all the major cable networks go HD
It sucks for the high-bandwidth user, but it makes perfect sense.
Agreed and why should they. It's like expecting Ford Motor Company to build our Freeways because they sell cars. It doesn't make sense.
that's why I've been working with a couple of grass roots groups here in Utah to have Utopia built out as Utopia ONLY provides infrastructure (like public roads).
Ever since Concast terminated our Internet last year because we used our "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee" account too much, I've learned a great deal about this subject. It's interesting that we've paid taxes (over 200 Billion) since 1994 for a fiber infrastructure. So.. where is it and why are we still paying???
anyway, it should be interesting to see how this all turns out.
Is anyone out there making amateur films that don't take place in the Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Matrix, or other insanely-overdone-fan-universe? Does it always have to be SciFi?! Fer cryin' out loud, is there anyone out there with any originality?!
Make up your own characters, plots, universes, and situations, and I will have far more respect for your craft. Rip off an existing universe, and you're just another fan, no matter how high quality your film is.
I've seen a few out there. I've checked vuzu and found a few dramas (short films) and other p2p web sites where fans have made their own films. It's a growing part of our culture which I'm excited to see. Even in YouTube, there are films there made by amateurs and some are quite good.
In fact just messing around I made one last night. I've been receiving a bunch of Concast advertisements the last week and considering how horrible they treated my family after they turned off our Internet account, we decided to make a fun little video about it:-)
I'll be posting it on youtube soon under the U235Sentinel name:-)
And of course I had to post my blog address at the end of the video. People might want to see what a lousy company with no competition will do to you.
It's been a few years now that amateur musicians could produce quality recordings at home with only a few thousand dollars worth of gear -- you only need to go to a traditional studio anymore to get into the real upper echelon of production value. It is nice to see movement in the same direction in cinema. Even if the entire entertainment industry insists on clinging desperately to 50-year-old ideas about copyright, despite the inevitable consequence of that doomed ideology, it's nice to know that we can lose them all and still not lose cinema and music as artistic media.
I found and downloaded via their torrent link the whole DVD. it's nearly a 4 Gig download. amazing what a couple guys from New Jersey and some computer equipment came up with for their home brewed 'Star Wars' film.
I suspect this is part of the reason Concast terminated the Internet accounts of several neighbors and friends. There are lots of videos out on the Internet like this. All available to legally download I might add (you can't imagine how many idiots keep claiming I must be doing something wrong...).
Reign of the Fallen is IMO an excellent video and shows where the Internet is going.
Now if America ONLY had the Infrastructure to handle the demand.
I'd like to know where Comcast advertises unlimited usage. I've never seen that advertised before, despite all the groaning and moaning to the contrary.
Currently they do not advertise unlimited usage however when 10's of thousands of customers signed up, the company did.
archive.org and check their advertisements from 2000-2003.
Everyone on my block still things they have "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee".
BTW, if you go to my blog, I have it already linked I believe in the February 24th 2007 post (I'd have to check to make sure that's right).
Current contract says you are purchasing a 6/8/10 Meg pipe. There is nothing to indicate what bandwidth you have purchased other than vague AUP/TOS statements with no bandwidth guidelines.
Actually Concast talks in terms of Email's, photos or mp3's per month.
And if you download more than 13 million emails or 256,000 photos or 30,000 mp3's per month, you are a bad person and will be spanked for 12 months by their Ministry of Lov^H^H^H^H^H^H Abuse Department.
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I'm just afraid that immunity will send the message, that it's okay to violate civil rights, if the government asks you to. The government is the last people you should want violating your rights, it says so right in the constitution.
;-)
But the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper! GWB said so
All kidding aside, it's unreal just how much these retards in Government seem to be acting out scene from Babylon5 Season 3. I'm serious. We were just watching it recently and it occurred to me that they use the same style wording to make it sound like they are doing a good thing.
Substitute Homeland Security for the 'Ministry of Peace' and groups Guarding events like the Seattle WTO meetings for 'Nightwatch'.
Sure looks the same and this stuff was filmed in the 90's.
What - you thought you were Microsofts' customer? You're a consumer, not a customer. And you'll consume whatever they feed you, until you get sick of it and either die or switch.
:-)
:D
Switching is easy if you have Ubuntu
I've switched several of my systems already to 7.04 (looking at 7.10) and I'm down to only two Windows systems. One will need to stay (for now) with Wintendo and the other will be replaced in another couple months.
The motivation came after I checked out Vista. No I don't hate Microsoft. They are the reason I've been so busy these last few years. If they wrote good software then I'd probably be unemployed
A hundred whitepapers wont do much good unless you can afford to lobby a few politicians and they only deal in cash.
;-)
And with the way the economy is going, it must be in euro's
Heh. I read that while having a few traceroutes running in other windows, testing times to a few sites in Iran. All of them do pretty well from here (Boston) as far as the sites in New York, Amsterdam, and Turkey, with ping times mostly under 200 ms. Then the packets go to numbered machines without DNS addresses, and the ping times jump to over 500 ms. I'd thought that this was probably a sign of satellite hops, but now I wonder. Maybe it's just that we've slashdotted all the routers. Ya think?
;-)
:-)
;D
The government site at www.iran.ir doesn't repond to pings, but it does respond on port 80 in the usual manner. It is sorta slow, but firefox doesn't time it out.
I don't read Farsi, so I can't tell much about what it says. There are some familiar faces at the upper left, though.
Actually it's far more sinister than people imagine.
They push a story out about Iran's Intenet being down, everyone who's interested in Iran pings their servers to death, HomeLand Security (TM) captures that information and monitors you for the rest of your life because after all, you must be a terrorist if you are pinging Iran
Almost sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy "You Might be a RedNeck" joke doesn't it
So does that mean only 5 percent of their customers are making good use of what they paid for?
;-)
That's how I read it. But then again if you use what you paid for you risk being terminated for 12 months. Oh I'm sorry... I thought we were talking about Concast. My bad.
I didn't realize another company was starting to do this too
I wasn't - the people really play no part in the aforementioned scenario since the people don't control the nuclear weapons.
Agreed. And it seems we don't control our Politicians these days either. Time for another revolution?
Well that's one way to solve the problem - ensure that the US gets wiped off the face of the planet by legitimising *everyone* with a grudge against the US and adding a few more to the number of people the US pisses off.
You keep saying the US but are you aware there are American's living IN the US who don't want to be in a war? It's a great majority of us if you listen to the news and hear the poll numbers coming in.
Sure, there are times where you need to kick ass and fight. Most of American's don't believe this is one of them. And sure 9/11 did demand a response. But switching from a representative democracy to stepping on the road to a fasict state? The implications are frightening.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this. Don't confused the Government we have with the people. Most of us aren't being represented.
I know. I've been working with our crazy politicians to get something going with a broadband policy and now I'm hearing we have one and it's working great!!
You decide who's being represented. It sure as hell isn't the American majority.
Just because the company you are with doesn't tell you what your limit is doesn't mean there isn't one.
I've been pushing our politicians to wake up and provide a Broadband plan. Anything other than sitting on their hands to get them warm again. And to hear President Bush say it's working great?
Sorry but he's more of a ditz than I took him for.
. . but didn't we already pay $200 billion to get 45Mb/s fiber starting in the late 90s? I seem to remember how the telecomes complained that they didn't have the money to do it. And Congress passed the Telecom Act of 1996 to allow them to charge fees to help fund an infrastructure upgrade. Ten years later we barely have fiber and that fiber is dramatically slower and more expensive than promised. And you have to pay for it to be installed.
Yeah and the $200 Billion is a conservative estimate from what I'm seeing. I've been http://comcastissue.blogspot.com/>blogging about it for some time and run into other's who have better information about it. One guy got really deep into it and even published an ebook about it. I have the link on my blog somewhere.. I'd have to check but I found him through google and he was kind enough to explain to me some of what he found. It's unbelievable!
The fiber was supposed to go to every home and business and completed by 2006 I believe.
if it was in place, companies like Concast wouldn't be terminating people's internet for using it too much (without disclosing what the hell that means) nor blocking / forging bit torrent packets. They would be fighting for your business like any other business.
I don't agree. I don't know any Microsoft product that I could call "very good".
:D
Oh I don't know. Dungeon Siege 2 was very good IMO
By keeping old apps running on their latest OS, they make surepeople have no real incentive to switch their old apps to a different OS. See the recent IE7 and IE8 debate where companies who build their intranet apps for IE6 are faced with having to alter them. Why if you have to pay developer anyway, why not make the app browser neutral and avoid having to do the same for IE9? Force people to chance and they might chance in a direction you do not like.
:D
Thing is people are learning that backwards compatibility isn't working very well with Vista. I've been telling my neighbors who purchased a brand new computer with Vista pre-installed to stop bugging me about reinstalling/recovering Vista. They have their programs which worked fine in XP loaded up and crashing Vista to the point of no longer even booting.
It's frustrating software and my recommendation is to stick with XP or move to Linux / Apple. No reason to stick with Windows... unless you just must have the latest games too
At least the disc it comes on is pretty and shiny.
The box looks nice too.
Let's be honest and give Microsoft credit where credit is due.
The Pirate Bay provides a box with your Vista Download?
Cool!
If ISP's didn't oversell bandwidth you would be paying $300/month for internet access.
Overselling isn't the problem. Way, way overselling is. Some things can be oversold without a problem, including bandwidth.
Correct me but it sounds like you are saying they can advertise services but don't have to provide services AS advertised.
At least that's how I'm reading it.
Speaking of which, lookup the NII from 1994. Seems companies have received over 200 Billion in our tax money to build the new fiber infrastructure. They already have been paid IN ADVANCE to build plenty of infrastructure.
I heard that when you switch to FIOS they remove your POTS lines.
Also, from what I'm guessing, it you don't like your ISP providing the FIOS connection, you cannot get another ISP that can use that FIOS connection.
IOW: you are just locking yourself into another monopoly.
which is why I've been advocating projects such as Utopia here in Utah. If you have a company treat you like garbage (like Concast) then you simply FIRE them and get another provider over the same lines.
It forces companies to behave or go bankrupt.
Would would want to do business with a company that treats you like slim?
IIS are serious server. This are serious thread.
::whew::
;D
Well I for one am glad someone is taking this serious. I thought it was a joke for a moment.
Thanks for helping clarify
Although there is some sense to what you are suggesting, there is still one problem: Unlimited MEANS unlimited. If you sell users an unlimited plan, it is UNLIMITED. If you sell them that plan then decide that it is only unlimited for certain types of traffic packets, well, that is just not legal. If you buy a car, you have reasonable expectations that it will work on ALL highways. If you buy an unlimited Internet plan, you have reasonable expectations that it will work for all Internet protocol types and traffic.
;-)
:D
Unlimited means limited if you are a Concast customer.
Most of my neighborhood signed up years ago when they were advertising "Unlimited use for a flat monthly fee". Then a few of us were booted last year for using the Internet too much.
Quite lame but that's the truth. Many of us have been told we must have been doing something wrong like running a server or downloading illegal content. Guess what. That's not what we were accused of. And yes, there are many services which use IPTV, Internet radio and P2P legally. I tell them to get over it.
We've been blogging about it for nearly a year now. Nearly 75,000 hits! It's important to people. Either it's Unlimited or it's not. And if not, then companies need to grow a spine and disclose what people REALLY paid for. Otherwise it's false advertising (translation... they lied).
BTW, Concast is spamming our mail box for my family to resubscribe with them. We were terminated and told after 12 months we could resubscribe. Think we will?
Here is our answer to Concast via a video we created. Enjoy
Trying to contact the young daughter without permission, what did they do, offer her candy to get into a van with them? RIAA-pedos.
;-)
I wonder if Megans law would apply in this case
I'm not applauding the move but I call what I have reasonable. Before this plan I'm on, I had a so called "unlimited" plan. Unlimited? Yeah right! The fineprint said unlimited subject to an "acceptable use policy", stating that if my volume is more than 10 times the average usage (where average meant take the top and bottom 5% away and calculate the average from what's left...), I get cut off 'til the end of the month. The deal I have now not only costs less, it also gives me substantially more traffic than the "unlimited" deal.
:=-)
Limited bandwidth and unlimited traffic don't go too well together. But of course ISPs shouldn't advertise unlimited plans if they can't keep their promises.
I spoke with Bill Gephart about this. He said that it sounds they are saying that Unlimited now means Limited. Yeah... he was pretty frustrated with that crap also.
It's one thing to advertise a service as unlimited... it's false advertising when you don't deliver. And yeah I know that Concast no longer advertises that. But when I was a Concast customer I thought it still was unlimited. After all, that's what the advertisement said when my neighborhood signed up.
Speaking of which, now that the 12 months termination is over, Concast wants me to sign back up with them. What a load of $^!&! I've received a number of advertisements over the last week (nearly every day now). So I'm making a quick video with my response and posting on youtube. I figure I can have some fun with these jokers.
TWC doesn't want to run an entirely new infrastructure just to satisfy the people who are using the most bandwidth. And if they are going to go through the trouble to upgrade infrastructure, they need to have a financial benefit to doing such (i.e. more users paying more for more bandwidth.) They are already going to have to invest in new lines once all the major cable networks go HD
It sucks for the high-bandwidth user, but it makes perfect sense.
Agreed and why should they. It's like expecting Ford Motor Company to build our Freeways because they sell cars. It doesn't make sense.
that's why I've been working with a couple of grass roots groups here in Utah to have Utopia built out as Utopia ONLY provides infrastructure (like public roads).
Ever since Concast terminated our Internet last year because we used our "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee" account too much, I've learned a great deal about this subject. It's interesting that we've paid taxes (over 200 Billion) since 1994 for a fiber infrastructure. So.. where is it and why are we still paying???
anyway, it should be interesting to see how this all turns out.
I tried. For some reason I lose my connection to the FCC after only a few seconds...
;-)
Don't tell me. Your provider is Concast right?
I had to ask
Is anyone out there making amateur films that don't take place in the Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Matrix, or other insanely-overdone-fan-universe? Does it always have to be SciFi?! Fer cryin' out loud, is there anyone out there with any originality?!
:-)
:-)
Make up your own characters, plots, universes, and situations, and I will have far more respect for your craft. Rip off an existing universe, and you're just another fan, no matter how high quality your film is.
I've seen a few out there. I've checked vuzu and found a few dramas (short films) and other p2p web sites where fans have made their own films. It's a growing part of our culture which I'm excited to see. Even in YouTube, there are films there made by amateurs and some are quite good.
In fact just messing around I made one last night. I've been receiving a bunch of Concast advertisements the last week and considering how horrible they treated my family after they turned off our Internet account, we decided to make a fun little video about it
I'll be posting it on youtube soon under the U235Sentinel name
And of course I had to post my blog address at the end of the video. People might want to see what a lousy company with no competition will do to you.
It's been a few years now that amateur musicians could produce quality recordings at home with only a few thousand dollars worth of gear -- you only need to go to a traditional studio anymore to get into the real upper echelon of production value. It is nice to see movement in the same direction in cinema. Even if the entire entertainment industry insists on clinging desperately to 50-year-old ideas about copyright, despite the inevitable consequence of that doomed ideology, it's nice to know that we can lose them all and still not lose cinema and music as artistic media.
;D
As far as movies go, check out this video.
I found and downloaded via their torrent link the whole DVD. it's nearly a 4 Gig download. amazing what a couple guys from New Jersey and some computer equipment came up with for their home brewed 'Star Wars' film.
I suspect this is part of the reason Concast terminated the Internet accounts of several neighbors and friends. There are lots of videos out on the Internet like this. All available to legally download I might add (you can't imagine how many idiots keep claiming I must be doing something wrong...).
Reign of the Fallen is IMO an excellent video and shows where the Internet is going.
Now if America ONLY had the Infrastructure to handle the demand.
Oh well.. there's always Canada right
I'd like to know where Comcast advertises unlimited usage. I've never seen that advertised before, despite all the groaning and moaning to the contrary.
Currently they do not advertise unlimited usage however when 10's of thousands of customers signed up, the company did.
archive.org and check their advertisements from 2000-2003.
Everyone on my block still things they have "unlimited use for a flat monthly fee".
BTW, if you go to my blog, I have it already linked I believe in the February 24th 2007 post (I'd have to check to make sure that's right).
Current contract says you are purchasing a 6/8/10 Meg pipe. There is nothing to indicate what bandwidth you have purchased other than vague AUP/TOS statements with no bandwidth guidelines.
At that speed you will reach your download/upload limit on your unlimited connection in just a few hours :D
I believe it. So rather than hitting your limit in a month, you hit it (whatever it is) in just a few days.
That's because it's ConCastic!!
what's that in Libraries of Congress per second?
Actually Concast talks in terms of Email's, photos or mp3's per month.
And if you download more than 13 million emails or 256,000 photos or 30,000 mp3's per month, you are a bad person and will be spanked for 12 months by their Ministry of Lov^H^H^H^H^H^H Abuse Department.