<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Mol</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/24/07, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 10/24/07, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Another gem: A friend of mine was dropped by Comcast last week for
<br>> > excess usage. (He had been seeding a large number of popular<br>> > torrents.) When someone else in the family called Comcast (and<br>> > reportedly spoke to them very calmly), the Comcast abuse rep quickly
<br>> > raised his voice and began shouting.<br>> ><br>> > I'd heard of rude, sarcastic and obnoxious reps on tech support lines,<br>> > but to have a rep shout at the customer goes beyond anything I'd heard
<br>> > of before.<br>> ><br>> > Incidentally, Comcast is losing a $170/mo+ account as a result.<br>><br>><br>><br>> In a way one can look at this as<br>> Comcast imposing byte limits.<br>
><br>> Here again, Comcast could just<br>> spell it out. What is the point at<br>> which they chuck you for being an<br>> abuser? Is the limit averaged over<br>> a day, a week, or a month?<br>><br>
> But here too, a company is free<br>> to turn down business. But being<br>> a near monopoly, you'd think they'd<br>> be required to inform people first<br>> about what rules are.<br>><br>> Am I correct in saying the person
<br>> above was warned at least once,<br>> or was he just cut off?<br><br>He was warned once, but wasn't told what an acceptable level of usage<br>was. He subsequently capped his torrent client at a lower rate.
<br>Presumably, it wasn't low enough.</blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br>That I've read, Comcast doesn't<br>want people using Bit Torrent at all.<br><br>At least that's how it's behaving.<br><br> -Bob<br> <br></p><DEFANGED_div>
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