Comments on: Comcast announces bandwidth throttling in FCC filing http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:42:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dominateus http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-512304 Dominateus Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:36:30 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-512304 You know, no one has said a word about familys. Now, i'm not going to try to change anyones mind, but the fact is the more kids you have plus mom and dad the more bandwidth you use. I don't know where they got their 2 or 3 gb average use number from but I don't think it accuratly portrays your normal family line that accomodates more than one individual at home. Lilly is always on YouTube, the boys are always gaming, or dl music, or shooting themselves doing whatever and passing the videos around on the net to their friends, who pass them on again...That's what kids do. Looks like my favorite babysitter has decided to cap her services, and eliminate users like us. It just seems this whole thing is anti-family to me. That's all i wanted to say. You know, no one has said a word about familys. Now, i’m not going to try to change anyones mind, but the fact is the more kids you have plus mom and dad the more bandwidth you use. I don’t know where they got their 2 or 3 gb average use number from but I don’t think it accuratly portrays your normal family line that accomodates more than one individual at home.
Lilly is always on YouTube, the boys are always gaming, or dl music, or shooting themselves doing whatever and passing the videos around on the net to their friends, who pass them on again…That’s what kids do. Looks like my favorite babysitter has decided to cap her services, and eliminate users like us.
It just seems this whole thing is anti-family to me. That’s all i wanted to say.

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]]> By: Michael B http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-301814 Michael B Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:13:22 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-301814 Let's face facts... First, Comcast was NOT ordered to do this "by sanction"... all the FCC ruled was that they could NOT throttle only P2P traffic, as had been discovered. This did not mean "hey, but you can throttle EVERYONE instead". The bottom line is this: Comcast is protecting their cable service by limiting your use of Vongo, Apple TV, Netflix streaming, and every other streaming entertainment service, including such innocuous sites as YouTube (which uses bandwidth for Flash videos). I think it's time the FCC sees this for what it is... anti-competitive, and stops it, and also goes further in prohibiting Comcast's involvement with the Clearwire WiMax venture, where they will impose their same draconian rules. Let’s face facts… First, Comcast was NOT ordered to do this “by sanction”… all the FCC ruled was that they could NOT throttle only P2P traffic, as had been discovered. This did not mean “hey, but you can throttle EVERYONE instead”. The bottom line is this: Comcast is protecting their cable service by limiting your use of Vongo, Apple TV, Netflix streaming, and every other streaming entertainment service, including such innocuous sites as YouTube (which uses bandwidth for Flash videos). I think it’s time the FCC sees this for what it is… anti-competitive, and stops it, and also goes further in prohibiting Comcast’s involvement with the Clearwire WiMax venture, where they will impose their same draconian rules.

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]]> By: MarkP http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-297208 MarkP Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:14:23 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-297208 "besides no normal user would ever…..EVER get close to 250GB of usage! " The bandwith throttling has absolutely nothing to do with the 250gb cap. Sounds like your the one needing the education. This is what the throttling is about "It will identify which customer accounts are using the greatest amounts of bandwidth and their Internet traffic will be temporarily managed until the period of congestion passes." “besides no normal user would ever…..EVER get close to 250GB of usage! ”

The bandwith throttling has absolutely nothing to do with the 250gb cap. Sounds like your the one needing the education.

This is what the throttling is about “It will identify which customer accounts are using the greatest amounts of bandwidth and their Internet traffic will be temporarily managed until the period of congestion passes.”

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]]> By: ThinkPeopleThink http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-282098 ThinkPeopleThink Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:20:01 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-282098 It's amazing how people hit comcast as if they were doing this because they want to. If you choose to actually use intelligence and READ you could very simply notice they were ORDERED BY SANCTION to do this....besides no normal user would ever.....EVER get close to 250GB of usage! If you wanna be childish in thought and attitude and stick to the blame game hit the FCC.....no one ever educates themselves enough to find the source, just the big name behind it, grow some cells people. A normal user only uses 2GB-3GB of usage a month. In order to meet 250GB you would have to: 50 MILLION emails at .5kb each download 62,500 songs at 4MB each AND download 125 standard def MOVIES at 2GB each It’s amazing how people hit comcast as if they were doing this because they want to. If you choose to actually use intelligence and READ you could very simply notice they were ORDERED BY SANCTION to do this….besides no normal user would ever…..EVER get close to 250GB of usage!

If you wanna be childish in thought and attitude and stick to the blame game hit the FCC…..no one ever educates themselves enough to find the source, just the big name behind it, grow some cells people.

A normal user only uses 2GB-3GB of usage a month. In order to meet 250GB you would have to:

50 MILLION emails at .5kb each
download 62,500 songs at 4MB each
AND download 125 standard def MOVIES at 2GB each

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]]> By: Galvatron http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-281728 Galvatron Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:33:37 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-281728 160 a month cox costs les than that? 160 a month cox costs les than that?

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]]> By: DavidB http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-281354 DavidB Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:06:38 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-281354 Dear Comcast, Verizon has won a franchise to string their FIOS to my city and my home. The day it lights up for customer use, I'll be taking my $160+ per month of internet and tv and phone service to them. Congratulations on an idiotic set of policies that (especially how badly you've ignored my City for years) are pushing your best customers elsewhere. Dear Comcast,
Verizon has won a franchise to string their FIOS to my city and my home. The day it lights up for customer use, I’ll be taking my $160+ per month of internet and tv and phone service to them. Congratulations on an idiotic set of policies that (especially how badly you’ve ignored my City for years) are pushing your best customers elsewhere.

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]]> By: tavella http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-281334 tavella Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:10:05 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-281334 Has anyone used a service such as Vongo? Each movie download was at least one to two gigs. If you want to watch a movie every night or just cache a few extra, grab some albumbs off of iTunes or another music store, and throw in a little bit of streaming radio you get throttled? Wow. While this may not be typical of all customers, how can the assumption be made that all customers with high bandwidth are automatically bittorrent users? Is it our fault that their network infrastructure was built way back when a 1MB connection was the max offered since your neighbors shared the bandwidth coming in to the neighborhood? If I was one of the people at Comcast pushing these inititatives, I would be on the lookout for WiMax and LTE solutions that other celluar companies will be offering in the upcoming year(s), that is if they don't cap you off at 5GB/mo as well. Has anyone used a service such as Vongo? Each movie download was at least one to two gigs. If you want to watch a movie every night or just cache a few extra, grab some albumbs off of iTunes or another music store, and throw in a little bit of streaming radio you get throttled? Wow. While this may not be typical of all customers, how can the assumption be made that all customers with high bandwidth are automatically bittorrent users? Is it our fault that their network infrastructure was built way back when a 1MB connection was the max offered since your neighbors shared the bandwidth coming in to the neighborhood? If I was one of the people at Comcast pushing these inititatives, I would be on the lookout for WiMax and LTE solutions that other celluar companies will be offering in the upcoming year(s), that is if they don’t cap you off at 5GB/mo as well.

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]]> By: Blackula http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/20/comcast-announces-bandwidth-throttling/comment-page-1/#comment-281289 Blackula Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:47:01 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=5055#comment-281289 Oh, thats just plain fuck up! Time for me to look for another cable company. Oh, thats just plain fuck up! Time for me to look for another cable company.

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