Comcast is cutting off customers who use too much bandwidth. Only, they
won't tell you how much is too much, nor will they tell you how to monitor
your bandwidth use.
Well, as I see it it depends on the terms of service agreement, if it says
they can then they can. Comcast is a business, which happens to depend
on a technology that is based on a head end distribution model.
If your demand among shared users on the head end bandwidth is excessive
with regard to particular users, then it makes technical sense to deny those
users access based on the needs of the many as opposed to the demands
of the few.
All they have to do is justify it with regards to the terms of service
agreement.
But if they have no enforceable terms of service, and in fact promised
unlimited
access, then they are on shaky ground.
Cable is somewhat unregulated, and any business operating without an
enforceable contract with the end user is at liberty to terminate service
without prior notification. But I stress that if they promised unlimited
service
and failed to deliver, they are in breach of an implicit contract.
It's not true that phone company DSL is independent of bandwidth saturation.
But it appears so from the individual user perspective, because the phone
company only promised a 3 Mbps (depending) connection, and the terms
of service are crystal clear. You can run all day at that speed, remote
servers
permitting, and you won't be cut off.
As long as you pays your bill.
Once the DSLAM is maxed out on either the subscriber side or the network
side it's time to build out.
Yes cable is faster (but not faster than FiOS). But the increased speed is
bought at the expense of head end (shared) bandwidth.
And that is the bottom line. Cable internet access is great, no question
that
under normal use it beats DSL in speed. But the technology model pretty
much means that the heavy users grab everyone else's bandwidth.
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