DO NOT buy COMCAST DSL service

[GuGu]

Credit to yahoonews.com

Heavy Internet users unplugged by US cable company

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several Internet users in the United States have been unplugged by their service provider because they download too much, a press report said here Friday.

Cable Internet and entertainment provider Comcast "has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers," the Washington Post reported.

Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas told AFP the company was addressing "the problem of abusive activity that adversely impacts on everybody else's experience."

"I can't give you a number" for clients who have been disconnected, said Douglas, while assuring that customers whose plugs were pulled are "very rare."

According to the Washington Post, a customer would have to download the equivalent of 1,000 songs or four feature films a day to trigger a disconnection warning.

Comcast gives customers a month to fix problems or upgrade their service before they are disconnected, the Washington Post said.

An unplugged client in Rockville, a suburb of Washington, has filed a complaint with the county he lives in, saying his contract with his service provider states that he is entitled to unlimited Internet access, officials in Montgomery County said.

A recent report by the ABI market research company warned that the growth in demand for "bandwidth-hungry services such as HDTV and online gaming is leading to a critical lack of capacity" in US cable operators' networks.

"Cable TV operators trying to satisfy the increasing bandwidth demands of HDTV customers feel very much like the thrifty grocer who tried to cram ten pounds of potatoes into a five-pound bag," ABI research director Stan Schatt said last month.

"The increasing bandwidth demands on cable operators will soon reach crisis stage, yet this is a ‘dirty little industry secret’ that no one talks about."

[imthatlady]

oh ****. why didn't u guys tell me earlier!?!?!?
my roommate and i already ordered the internet service from comcast

oh well, it's okay. i don't go on the internet that much anymore neways. hey, it's college..think of all the possibilities i could b doing instead of sitting on my *** in front of the comp ;] HAHAHAHA. ^^

[pemberly]

the only person i've ever know who's had their internet capped by comcast was downloading AND uploading dvd quality movies 24/7. he had a separate computer just for that purpose, and also used another computer to download songs and for everyday usage. that's the crazy high usage you'd need to have before comcast cuts your service so ordinary people don't need to worry.

[Ren Wo Xing]

Yes, 200+ gigabytes is massive.

[mind_wander]

I cared to share something with you all: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/...t_2007/10.html This might explain why of all the problems; Is your repair cable guy sleeping on the job?

Here is the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7...elated&search=

Another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQRF...elated&search=

So could this be your reasons? Why you don't got good service?

[shanghai girls are hot]

get DSL
most of them give you unlimited internet usage, or do your own research to see who has a download/upload limit
they shouldn't advertise unlimited internet if they don't give it

[bach_ngoc17]

I think most company has different packages you can get that has a download/upload limit. They would need so much equipment to keep us all up and running if everyone started downloading/uploading stuff all the time so they need to put a limit. Even the highest priced package as a limit on that. When they say unlimited internet I think they refer to being able to browse things online unlimited. There was a time that Internet providers gave you some number of minutes to use the internet each month for a certain price with more minutes if you pay more. Now everyone offers one price in which we aren't being time so companies can't be competitive if they base price on time.

[atlantean0208]

Comcast gives customers a month to fix problems or upgrade their service before they are disconnected, the Washington Post said.

Its all about money. The ISP usually doesn't advertise that they have speed-capping in place however they have something that they called AUP or acceptable uses policy which lots people just doesn't bother to read. So they will gonna use this AUP when they think that some users make them lose money.

[SkyKing]

I cared to share something with you all: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/...t_2007/10.html This might explain why of all the problems; Is your repair cable guy sleeping on the job?

Here is the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7...elated&search=

Another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQRF...elated&search=

So could this be your reasons? Why you don't got good service?

lol.....dsl is way better.....i called yesterday and they came over the next day.......unlike Comcast, i called yesterday, they won't come until 4 days later.......