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Internet Rationing?!
Post Date: Aug 4, 2008
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Internet service providers cannot ration service to heavy users of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission rules this week. The FCC said that Comcast, one of the largest Internet service providers, broke the law when it slowed the transfer of video files among a group of its customers to ensure that other customers had adequate bandwidth. the FCC ruled that Comcast had no right to act as Internet traffic cop.

(From The Week, vol. 8, issue 373, p. 6)
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    ɤInfog

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    That is good to hear. :) I'm still for paying bandwidth costs like electrical usage, for very high use.

    A large Max speed (for convenience), but a capped total bandwidth per week? If you wanted it bad enough, you would pay for it.
    08.04.08 8:42 pm
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      ӝTheHalcyon

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      Well, you figure: Comcast offers different levels of speed for its customers. So if you're a high-use, high-bandwidth customer and you're pushing and pulling data like a mule, because you're paying for X bandwidth, and Comcast decides that you can't use your full X speed, that you have to be capped at Y even though you're PAYING for X??

      That's bullshit, plain and simple.
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      08.04.08 9:26 pm
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    fuuuuuuuuck yeah, finally. i knew this couldn't happen.

    TWC recently added a feature for Turbo users that during uncrowded bandwidth time they can get up to 16mbps which i thought was odd because they were considering rationing. guess this is why ;)
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    08.04.08 11:37 pm
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    ӝNirach

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    Ha!

    Now, if only this'd translate to the UK :/
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      Do they ration there?
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      08.06.08 4:14 pm
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        In a sense, but they're more in your face about it.

        It's more a "We're going to bend you over that pole there, and do indecent things to you until the rapture."
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        08.06.08 4:48 pm
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          :dieslaughing: Poor, poor Brit.
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          08.06.08 6:06 pm
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            It's no fair, huh :(
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            08.08.08 9:44 am
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              :cuddle: It'll all be ok.
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              08.08.08 5:47 pm
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                Yeah, I'll move somewhere not crap :P
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                08.13.08 11:24 pm
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                  I recommend the US. We don't put up with that bullshit here! LOL
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                  08.14.08 12:48 am
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                    Hahahahah :D
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                      I know, right? Don't I have the BEST ideas?!
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                      08.16.08 3:56 pm
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                        Absolutely flawless ideas.

                        Flawless.
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                          What can I say, I'm brilliant. Flawless people come up with flawless ideas! *takes a bow and trips over her own magnificence*
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                            :rofl:

                            Crazy lady!
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