Re: * * Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges
Cliff
wrote:
>Posted by Jason D. O'Grady May 8th, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
>Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of http://www.PowerPage.org
>which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995.
>
>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1706&tag=nl.e539
>
>Today’s Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar
>http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/256/story/152359.html
>
>on a troubling trend of bandwidth caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial
>pipe from Comcast:
>
>Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, is
>considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can
>download per month and charging a fee for those who go over…
>
>For years, Comcast directly called customers who used up several times more
>bandwidth than the typical subscriber’s 2 gigabytes per month - for instance, by
>downloading hordes of movies. The big users were asked to reduce their use or
>have their accounts canceled.
>
>Broadband Reports
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/94185?r=171
>expands on the Comcast plans from a source:
>
>A Comcast insider tells me the company is considering implementing very clear
>monthly caps, and may begin charging overage fees for customers who cross them.
>While still in the early stages of development, the plan — as it stands now —
>would work like this: all users get a 250GB per month cap.
>
>Users would get one free “slip up” in a twelve month period, after which users
>would pay a $15 charge for each 10 GB over the cap they travel. According to the
>source, the plan has “a lot of momentum behind it,” and initial testing is
>slated to begin in a month or two.
>
>I’m not a huge downloader or anything but this kind of thing scares me. First
>they implemented Sandvine
>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections
>
>to forge TCP packets
>http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
>
>and kill BitTorrent traffic, now bandwidth caps and surcharges.
>
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Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked
Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal
investigation and is at the center of calls for "Net Neutrality" laws, but
another U.S. cable company appears to be doing the same thing without drawing
scrutiny.
A study released Thursday found conclusive signs that file-sharing attempts by
subscribers of Cox Communications were blocked, along with customers at Comcast
and Singapore's StarHub.
Of the 788 Comcast subscribers who participated in the study, 62 percent had
their connections blocked. At Cox, 54 percent of subscribers examined were
blocked, according to Krishna Gummadi at the Max Planck Institute for Software
Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany. The institute examined the network connections
of 8,175 Internet subscribers around the world.
Philadelphia-based Comcast is the country's second-largest Internet service
provider, with 14.1 million subscribers. Atlanta-based Cox Communications is the
fourth-largest, with 3.8 million. It is part of privately held Cox Enterprises
Inc.
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