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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
F*** that I pay for my bandwidth if they say I use it in an "excessive use" I'll tell them to kiss my A** and switch the next day to DSL who I'm sure wouldn't mind having my business  |
Exactly... which is why I'm not surprised that the people getting hit for this are those who live outside the range for DSL.
Basically it boils down to this: the cable companies build a loop that coveres say one neighborhood. The built it expecting a certain total bandwidth usage, which is a number significantly lower than the sum of all the offered bandwidth for the nodes on that branch. So when people acually use all the bandwidth they were promised, the loop can't handle all the traffic, so they go after the people that consistantly use lots of bandwidth, figuring they're the p2p filesharers that don't want any trouble, even though it pretty much means the cable company is breaching their contract.
