[RP TownTalk] Comcast Internet

[cranky old coot]

I just read a Washington Post article Shutting Down Big Downloaders 
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and was wondering if Comcast has cut off any one's  Internet here in town. 

"The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new 
Internet sin: using it too much.

"Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet 
service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and 
slow down the network for other customers. The company declines to 
reveal its download limits.

"'You have no way of knowing how much is to much,' said Sandra Spalletta 
of Rockville, whose Internet service was suspended in March after 
Comcast sent her a letter warning that she and her teenage son were 
using too much bandwidth."

Later in the article Comcast claimed it would take "the equivalent of 
1,000 songs or four full-length movies every day" to trigger a 
disconnect warning.

Just wondering.

Lou