[SD] Comcast's New Throttling Plan - Overclock.net

Papa.Smurf · 2 Weeks Ago

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clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcast's new traffic-throttling scheme, based on information from Comcast's latest FCC filing.

"Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions. Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes. Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to – along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers – gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible. Tripping either of Comcast's high bandwidth usage rate triggers results in throttling for at least 15 minutes, or until your average bandwidth utilisation rate drops below 50 per cent for 15 minutes."

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TwoCables · 2 Weeks Ago

Well then so much for enjoying high-speed internet when I want to download a really big file, such as the Release Candidate of Windows 8 or something.

ACM · 2 Weeks Ago

still being D-bags i see.

Great, comcast is the only cable i get out here.

TwoCables · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ACM

still being D-bags i see.

Great, comcast is the only cable i get out here.

Yeah, but they don't have any choice thanks to certain people who couldn't care less about the other customers sharing the network with them.

Papa.Smurf · 2 Weeks Ago

Hopefully the new FCC "net neutrality" backing will put an end to this...

vdek · 2 Weeks Ago

So my 50mbs connection is really only a 25mbps connection?(I have Time Warner so this doesn't apply to me *yet*) They should be sued for false advertising.

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Originally Posted by Papa.Smurf

Hopefully the new FCC "net neutrality" backing will put an end to this...

Unfortunately this has nothing to do with net neutrality but with false advertising.

TwoCables · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by vdek

So my 50mbs connection is really only a 25mbps connection?(I have Time Warner so this doesn't apply to me *yet*) They should be sued for false advertising.

That's not what the article says.

Liability · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by TwoCables

Yeah, but they don't have any choice thanks to certain people who couldn't care less about the other customers sharing the network with them.

Drinking the comcast kool aid, I see

MNiceGuy · 2 Weeks Ago

Sign up now for Comcast High Speed Internet with blazing-fast downloads!!*

* As long as those downloads don't take too long, consume too much blazing fast bandwidth, or in any way prove our infrastructure to be inadequate