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Comcast is back with yet another scheme to rob Internet bandwidth from its users.  After the attempt to mess with bittorrent traffic last year and the subsequent back off cos’ of the FCC investigation into the issue, comcast is coming up with novel ways to cap bandwidth or in their words ‘ managing traffic during peak periods’.

In October Comcast announced its plans to have a monthly data cap of 250 GB for all its residential users. And decided to terminate accounts who exceeded the data limit for two months. This time Comcast has come up with a much more complex method to cap transfer rates realtime.

According to their new policy, the system is alerted if you use more than 70% of your UL/DL bandwidth for 15 minutes continuosly or if you Cable modem termination point becomes congested cos’ they say it is partly because of your usage. In such cases your transfer rate is capped till the usage drops to less than 50% over a 15 minute interval.

This new method is much more crappier for residential end users, a download lasting more than 15 mins would mean a bandwidth cap till the end of the dowload and till the time the average usage falls below 50%,  like a HQ streaming youtube video will slow down after 3-4 mins and you would have to wait for it to buffer up after that.  What crap ?

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