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Guest — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:08:53 -0000

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Re: louisgray.com: Maximum Download Speeds Will Always Vary, Caps or Not

David Carswell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:04:14 -0000

Comcast just busted my balls - i apparently went over the 250gb cap with a whopping 680gb download in 30 days - most of my download and upload is school related - i am a 3d animator and use school servers from home for rendering and transferring huge files. Guess they never thought about throttling me. Now my work must entail hours of back and forth transit time between home and school with San Francisco's broken MUNI system. And also now in the search for an affordable unlimited download solution as Comcast does not offer an upgrade at any price. So far I have had no success...

Re: louisgray.com: Maximum Download Speeds Will Always Vary, Caps or Not

Ari Herzog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:26:03 -0000

Quincy, being from South Africa, how is your cellular reception? I am presuming you have a cell phone. I've heard that while many African nations are lagging behind the US, UK, and other industrialized nations in broadband access, the cell towers and satellite coverages are rampant.

Re: louisgray.com: Maximum Download Speeds Will Always Vary, Caps or Not

quincy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:07:25 -0000

I live in South Africa and ADSL packages are still limited to between the 1GB to 3GB range. We have always looked on you guys in the states with glee in many respects precisely because of what looks like generous broadband experience you have enjoyed till this point.

It saddens me that the artificial scarcity created by these caps has become a business practice that has been observed and adopted by telcos in your part of the woods. Sadly, many telcos will begin to see this is a 'world trend' and before you know it, the entire world will be doing it.

What is the single most significant reason for a move towards these caps ? For landlocked markets is it really that much more expensive adding more optic fibre ?

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Benjamin Golub — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:04:00 -0000

"But the truth is, you'd have to really go out of your way to reach the cap, and be downloading around the clock, all while maintaining consistently high bandwidth." Not with some caps. Frontier (the 4th largest rural telecommunications company) is implementing a 5GB cap.

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Bjorn Stromberg — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:56:34 -0000

It was my understanding that Comcast is no longer allowed to throttle bittorrent, when is the FCC's decision going to go into effect for real and why isn't there anything in the mainstream media about it?