Comcast Cuts Service to Big Downloaders
Comcast is cutting off customers who are hogging bandwidth. So much for “unlimited internet access” that they advertise. Sounds like Comcast is sleeping on the job again.
Thanks to Drudge, I have this story from MSNBC here:
Comcast has punished some customers by cutting off their Internet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers. The company declines to reveal its download limits.
“You have no way of knowing how much is too much,” said Sandra Spalletta of Rockville, whose Internet service was suspended in March after Comcast sent her a letter warning that she and her teenage son were using too much bandwidth. They cut back on downloads but were still disconnected. She said the company would not tell her how to monitor their bandwidth use in order to comply with the limits.
“You want to think you can rely on your home Internet service and not wake up one morning to find it turned off,” said Spalletta, who filed a complaint with the Montgomery County Office of Cable and Communication Services. “I thought it was unlimited service.”
It’s unclear how many customers have lost Internet service because of overuse. So far, only Comcast customers have reported being affected. Comcast said only a small fraction of its customers use enough bandwidth to warrant pulling the plug on their service.
To trigger a disconnection warning, customers would be downloading the equivalent of 1,000 songs or four full-length movies every day. Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas declined to reveal specific bandwidth limits.
I would applaud Comcast if they said they were cutting service to users who obviously were eating bandwidth due to viruses, worms and spamming activity. But for normal usage of their network???
This is disgusting behavior by a broadband provider. If you still have Comcast, call Verizon and ask for FIOS.
Its 1/3rd cheaper and their service is unlimited.
You know what I have to say, right?
“THAT’S COMCASTIC!!!”
I have got tired of how many years corporations keep pulling junk against the American people and the fact Canada has more freedoms then the USA. Now sometimes I feel like I rather be in Canada then the USA because the USA has become sort of a Police State like Germany back then when it was a dictatorship.
First I will start with the RIAA. They are constantly suing thousands of Americans, people are afraid of the police cause of lawsuits, people are just afraid of the cops for something that is ethical, and yet it is illegal to download music in the USA. In canada it is Ok to download copyrighted music for personal purposes.
Yet the USA educational system is degrading and falling, so many children are now wanting to be homeschooled anymore, school shootings are getting worse, and yet I heard from a company boss named Berry said his children were more happy being schooled in Canada. then in China which is what our schools have become. So USA Schools are just as horrible as China.
Also Microsoft is constantly harassing us all, making us activate the products we pay for, and censoring the public at wikipedia.org. Microsoft should be arrested and sued for breaking so many laws and hurting our constitution.
Also the USA wants to spy on everyone to protect children from harm but now innocent people are being arrested and some innocent people that have been hacked have been accused of child porography.
Yet in Canada they are concerned about our privacy more. They are more worried about ethics then us. If there are less crimes commited since filesharing isn’t illegal there would be no need for government surveillance. Juts spy to stop terrorists, not filesharers.
I wish America can go up to Canadian standards and the standards we want in a free country. I feel like we are not a free country anymore but a Police States of America (PSA) and we have become a communistic country.
I hope this country becomes free and moral again and a country we can be proud of and a country we would wanna live in.
Don’t let America fall into the standards of Totaliterian rule, and into the standards of China
Hey Adolf,
Welcome to the blog and thanks for commenting. You make lots of good points, especially about the RIAA. How is what the RIAA does with letters sent to downloaders demanding payment to avoid a lawsuit any different that what a mobster does to demand money in return for “protection?” Sounds like racketeering to me.
Sorry for reposted my comment. Sorry about that.
Thanks Pat for the comment back to me.
I am trying to spread a message so everyone hears me