[GRLUG] An ISP question

[Bob Kline]

Yes,  multiple data streams.

I'm not quite sure what Comcast's game
would be if it is capping data rates.  I have
a personal account,  and while it's still
possible for there to be multiple users,
I'm not sure why Comcast would fold that
in to its package.

In a way,  that's then fraud. I buy an 8Mbps
down service,  and Comcast caps it at,
say,  6Mbps per stream.  Seems to me
that is for all practical purposes a 6Mbps
service.  If this is what is going on,  I fail
to see what legitimate reason Comcast
would have for doing this.

Has anyone else out there attempted to
measure the performance of their Comcast
service?

     -Bob




On 8/11/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:


> Would "certan circumstances" be such where the data transfer consisted
> of multiple data streams? (Like download accelerators and p2p
> clients?)
>
> Comcast might have a cap on the throughput of individual TCP streams.
> Seems likely, especially if they expect customers to have more than
> one simultaneous user to a particular account. It would certainly make
> for an easy way to keep one user from hogging all the bandwidth, and
> thus reduces complaint calls about "My internet is slow!"
>
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