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Internet service providers to act against online piracy by reducing bandwidth
BrownMasterV:
I've gone over my 250GB limit with Comcast for multiple consecutive months before and never got a warning...
sangued:
That is because some people go over by Terabytes (like 10TB a month). They go for the big fish. There are plenty of people to take care of first. So unless you are really going over your band width right now it is doubtful that they will even bother you. Hence the article stated here that cable company's are cutting back on bandwidth is silly. Point being its not something to worry about. You can still go over the limit and not get noticed by anyone. Even when downloading illegal content unless you are really going to town. Big bro cant watch everyone at once no mater how hard he tries =)
Edit: Unless you are an employee then going over the bandwidth is bad. That is something they notice right away sadly....
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on September 01, 2011, 01:50:17 AM ---Comcast cable bandwidth distribution in neighborhood nodes has usage checked automatically by node. If the set of users on your node is not using much bandwidth, then you can download a lot every day and not attract the attention of Comcast (at least in my area so far). Your speeds of download can be very large too. At least this was how it was explained to one of my friends who for some strange reason chose to live in a quiet apartment complex full of "old" people. The old fogies don't really use up the bandwidth, so my friend gets to download well over the limit each month and at high speed. So far, comcast has not contacted him.
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Maybe my provider is like that as well, I live in a neighborhood with many low usage old people.
I think that is proved with my speed. I pay for 15mbps speed but I receive 45mbps? I called them and they said don't complain about a good thing.
So maybe they don't catching me.
sangued:
Couldn't say about other service providers. Just now how it works with Comcast. Been there 8 long years. But yep don't complain about a good thing
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