This is indeed OT, not that that stops anyone on this group :-) . The real killer here is that Comcrap doesn't provide any way to measure your usage -- so now we'll have Yet Another category of software we have to buy for a stupid reason (to go with antivirus and antispam): bandwidth measurement.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well it looks like it has started. The internet ISPs are having a hard time > providing service with the use of the internet. > > > Full article here: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/wr_nm/comcast_internet_dc > > > Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap > customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best > service for the vast majority of its subscribers. > > Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes > per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the > equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies. > > "If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the heaviest data > users who consume the most data on our high-speed Internet service, he or > she may receive a call from Comcast's Customer Security Assurance (CSA) > group to notify them of excessive use," according to the company's updated > Frequently Asked Questions on Excessive Use. > > Customers who top 250 GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe could > have service terminated for a year. > > > > Lizette > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
