This article discusses Comcast's policy of throttling its user's network traffic if they exceed a certain percentage of their maximum bandwidth for more than 15 minutes. This means that if someone is trying to download a video game demo or trailer than the normal 20 minute download might become a 25 minute download. However, if you decide that you want to try and stream a HD movie from Netflix then good luck. The article also discusses the impacts that this might have on the online multi-player gaming community.
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It's this kind of crap that irks me. Companies are becoming too greedy in how they control their networks. Luckily I don't have comcast. Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDelete-Dan Meyer
This makes me glad that I dont have Comcast. I dont think that it is fair that they can control how much bandwidth is being used as long as its not an obscene amount, but they are privately owned.
ReplyDeleteTom Myers
A number of companies that have tried this sort of throttling in the past have often abandoned the idea due to a large number of customers leaving them for other companies. Even in areas where there are no alternatives, companies have decided to give up when residents threatened to pay another company to install new lines. Hopefully this trend will continue even if government regulations aren't put into place.
ReplyDeleteWith the increasing amount of things you can do online especially with the increase in online gaming, why not throttle the connection. . . yeah. . . that sounds smart. . . *sigh* I hate when companies get greedy. Here, we want you to use our service, but we don't want you to use it too much. Isn't the name of the game to satisfy the customer. Thankfully, I don't have Comcast and if Time Warner decided to pull a stunt like this, I'd definitely leave them if they did not change and I know many others that would as well.
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