Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme
Posted by pogowolf on November 6, 2009
Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme
via Engadget by Joseph L. Flatley on 11/5/09
Comcast customers have been no stranger to bandwidth shenanigans over the years, from the whole torrent filtering mess to the 250GB monthly cap. Now the company is back with a new data throttling scheme intended to put the kibosh on excessive traffic during those times when the network is already being overwhelmed. The two-tiered system is put on alert if either more than 70 percent of your max bandwidth (downstream or upstream) is used for more than 15 minutes or if your particular Cable Modem Termination System gets congested and it decides that you’re partially responsible. Should you run afoul of the traffic warden, expect to find yourself down-throttled for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilization rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes. If there is no congestion, however, you shouldn’t notice any difference whatsoever — unless, of course, John McCain gets his way. Warning: PDF read link.
[Via Slashdot]
Pogowolf’s Vue:
Why don’t they just fix their freaking network rather than throttle people that could be just playing WoW? When is the government going to get the balls to throttle Comcast for being one of the worse companies in history? From the horrible quote tech support unquote to missed appointments, to it’s the 10th time I’ve called to fix this issue and it’s not fixed, to outages just for the hell of having an outage. But if you are a day late on the bill they are all over your ass like flies on shit.
There is no end to the relief I feel when I switched from Comcast to U-Verse. I would rather be offline than go with Comcast again. U-verse was like finding God after being in Hell.
