[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Forsaken]

Which part? Actually allowing bittorrent traffic or self metering the  
usage of the entire house? If the former, well, for starters I don't  
much care, as they've already been smacked by the FCC for being  
protocol prejudiced.... and I think voluntarily allotting a very small  
slice of the bandwidth instead of allowing the whole link to be used  
is something they'd probably prefer (it should be somewhat amusing to  
note that I haven't told my roommates I'm doing this, when they start  
bitching about Bittorrent speeds, I just blame it on comcast!)

If the latter, well, if Comcast has a problem with the gathering and  
analyzation of freely available data, then they're in the wrong  
business.

On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Adrin wrote:

> You realize that you just admitted to something that I am sure Comcast
> wouldn't care for?
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:57 -0400, Forsaken wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:59:29 -0400
>> Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When 4-8 gig movie downloads become commonplace enough and their
>>> network gets upgraded they will be very likely to raise the caps.
>>> Why would they pay to upgrade a network to a point that no one could
>>> use it?  It will just take competition, and they will start to have
>>> that in a few years.
>>
>> I don't think it's unreasonable for a single person. Usage patterns
>> differ, but yeah, you have to work at it to transfer that much data  
>> in
>> a single month if you're the only one on the link. But again, for
>> families, this is going to not be nice. I share a comcast link with  
>> two
>> other folks, and ever since I saw this announcement hit, I tossed  
>> Cacti
>> up on a box to start keeping track of the links aggregate bandwidth
>> usage, and it's... interesting. I didn't start it soon enough last
>> month to really get an accurate reading of whether or not we'd hit  
>> the
>> cap, but if the average daily usage for that time period held true,
>> then we would have fallen just short of it.
>>
>> I also don't allow much bittorrent traffic to cross the link, I set  
>> QoS
>> up to allow a max of 100k through, and I'm also a firewall nazi, so  
>> no
>> using alternate ports to get around it.
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