I just got a letter from Comcast a few weeks ago regarding this. It states: "According to our aggregate bandwidth usage records, during [month year] your Comcast High-Speed Internet account exceeded Comcast's bandwidth usage limitations. The activity associated with your account was more than 100 times the national median." The letter then goes on to list the "different activities" which could result in this - commercial or business applications, peer-to-peer networking, file sharing, newsgroup downloading, streaming music/videos, and voice and/or video services. The letter recommends I upgrade to a "business use" account. Argh. 100 times? Why would anyone get broadband if they're doing 1/100th of the transfer rate that I am? Silly national median.
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I just got a letter from Comcast a few weeks ago regarding this. It states: "According to our aggregate bandwidth usage records, during [month year] your Comcast High-Speed Internet account exceeded Comcast's bandwidth usage limitations. The activity associated with your account was more than 100 times the national median." The letter then goes on to list the "different activities" which could result in this - commercial or business applications, peer-to-peer networking, file sharing, newsgroup downloading, streaming music/videos, and voice and/or video services. The letter recommends I upgrade to a "business use" account. Argh. 100 times? Why would anyone get broadband if they're doing 1/100th of the transfer rate that I am? Silly national median.