So if you enable throttling in your peer-to-peer application to limit the upstream bandwidth to 65%, they won't do anything?

It's kind of funny to see an ISP implement a measure that is both a PR disaster and completely ineffective.
It's kind of a bummer to have so little competition in bandwidth providers that you can't make the worst offender pay for that kind of behavior.

This just in: "Comcast and their overpriced and shitty service is now being limited for an all time low!"

this realy is a bad time for the internet, although there is a way around it, drop the usage for ur upstream on the P2P software right down (to 10kb/s), if every body did this then it would slow down the downloading.
this would then stop any conjestion problems and the ISP's would be none-the-wiser, it just means a download would take 2x longer, but atleast u will get it and without throttling.

Sigh time to lower my upload speeds D: sigh if only internet was like in korea, or Japan, i dont think they have any problems there with throttleing their customers, and i think that over there, they have alot more freedom on the internet rather than us.

(expletive) YOU COMCAST! Now sit back and watch as your subscribers leave.

I am canceling my service with them today. Fuck you Comcast.

leave to where?

That's why I'm glad I live in NY, they can't limit your bandwidth if they are the only carrier in the area because then it's considered a monopoly.

Now here's the big question, what do they consider "extreme".

So you pay for X Mbps but if you use up more than 70% for 15 mins you get throttled. What a bunch of bullshit, we shouldn't have to put up with this.

this has been in effect since January, you ought to check your sources and read carefully. While this is not acceptable at all it is not new, the surprising thing is we didn't hear about it until just now. I've filed a complaint with the fcc and I suggest you all do so as well.

I, for one, am glad I have comcast.

Bandwidth throttling could be a good thing. If I'm trying to play some online games and the neighbors kid is slowing down my local internet down by up and downloading 1 tb or more a month and preventing me from playing my games on the connection I'm paying for. Then throttle away.

I probably use 50gb a month.

i wish i had another choice, but comcast is all that is available where i live as far as i know.

i was gonna say....if they throttle you when you're using less than the bandwith you paid for, they're asking for a lawsuit...netflix had the same issue with cutting you off from movies if you rented too many in a month and they lost that one....i see comcast facing the same battle soon

If they didnt have such a monopoly i would use a different company. If only we could open up cable like landline phone service.

Also-- I agree its ludacris that we get penalized for using the volume purchased...

So if I read this correctly, I'm not allowed to use the bandwidth I have paid for ??..

ooo.. class action suit coming...

How on earth do you use 50Gb a month legally.. sounds like you're the one clogging up your local internet

I just read the PDF report. As they were previously using protocol specific throttling methods, which people were complaining adamantly about previously, I think this is a positive step. Congestion needs to be controlled. My only hope is that their threshold levels are correct. 70% seems a bit low to me, though the downstream is 80%. I also think that these should probably be more aggressively applied towards users who bought the higher tier services, as they would most likely be larger offenders of network congestion (though cumulatively, lower tier users can also be offenders, so they should not be exempt). Ultimately, though, they should work on upgrading their network so all users can have a better experience, without so much need for throttling.

Time Warner is also implementing something like this, too. I've noticed more and more dwell times on downloading video, a lot more website drops in the middle of streaming, hangups on opening pages, etc. As many pc's as it is happening on I know it isn't just something screwy on one system.

I've seen it on Youtube, Hulu, video-linking off Facebook (accessing FB, too), and a whole lot of other places. You didn't see this a year ago and it seems to be getting worse.

Wow, amazing how old news can still hurt a company.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews [...] ges-105380

FYI, not from Comcast, I have to put up with TWC's RR.

Good Point! We have Comcast or Qwest and why wld I pay the same amount for less speeds. Maybe I'm weird but I have never had any problems with comcast.

ive noticed the throttling for about 2 weeks now. i don't like it at all. not one of my downloads has ever reached above 200KB/s during the last 2 weeks. parents refuse to change though

I can get 6mb DSL for the same price as the 8mb Comcast internet. Not only that, but in the last 4 years since I have had Adelphia/Comcast, my service has never gone out. So, I dont know where you get the whole "overpriced and shitty service" thing. Granted their customer service sucks, but their service itself is top notch.

If I lived in one of these affected areas I would probably get a hold of a hacked modem off ebay and go to town. But that's just me, shrug.

Yeah, that is retarded isn't it? What if a user was downloading an ISO of Windows 7 from the msdn site or a Linux Distribution? How about another random app or game that is 500MB to 1GB in size? Then there are downloadable movies, such as those being streamed through Netflix. What is the point in paying for something you can't fully utilize? I'm just glad I'm throttle and cap free wiht my FIOS service, but we aren't all that fortunate to have a better option besides Comcast to choose from. :-)

Is that just for torrents? Ive been downloading from newsgroups all week at full speed. I usually limit my torrent uploads to a max of 100k anyway, so I'd never get to 70% of my available upload bandwidth.

its so easy to use up 50GB of internet BW in a month I so. I listen to muisc online, I download movies, download games, play online games all the time. Not only that but when you take almost all the internet providers out there and thier service is like 1.5Mbps-10Mbps+ download but they only allow you 768Kbps upload you know more and more games are needing higher than that just so that you don't get disconnected from thier network. One game I'll tell you that needs that is MAG for PS3. So there is a few others but I cant connect because my internet is 1.5Mbps/768Kbps which really runs like 1.8Mbps/365Kbps. I always call my ISP and tell them get my internet fixed I need faster upload. The only time I can MAG is closer to the afternoon hours.

I live in Ontario. My ISP had a different answer. Although they were quick to hop onto this capping bandwagon, they saw a dollar to be made. Rather than simply throttle it back, they instead charge extra for the overages. It adds up fast too. I was over on my last months BW usage and my bill had $17 in additional charges. ($1.50/GB) This month was shaping up to be even more according to the phone conversation I just had with my ISP. I was looking at a $30 overage charge. The bill would have worked out to be the same as their top-tier 16Mbps/125GB package so I just upgraded today lol

no, its for everything. a simple 2 minute youtube video is even taking upwards of 3 minutes to finish downloading. toms homepage is averaging about 40 seconds as well

so, lemme get this straight: is this trigger applied only to upstream limitation, or is by downstream as well? IN general, upload speeds are anyways more limited than download, maybe except for T1 lines, so theoretically it should not limit the ability to , say, watch Hulu or other videos at full available speed.
Knowing the weasels at ISPs, though, I suspect the throttling will apply to both, upload and download.

Don't forget the 2nd trigger condition. You got throttled for being an "offending subscriber.

A friend of mine her ISP recently oversold her area and now she can no longer steam netflix without the movie halting every 15 min. I wonder her attempt to use neflix makes her an "offending subscriber" and she is being throttled.

Are you a member of Comcast's marketing dept?