Re: Internet download/upload speeds

On 2013-07-15, at 5:40 PM, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When we got a new service recently they warned us in the welcome package that we might see higher and lower speeds, than we were paying for, over the first 5 or 6 days while the connection "settled in" and learnt our usage patterns.

Wow, what should usage pattern have to do with what speed they give you?? So much for net neutrality. Is this supposed to mean if they detect torrent traffic they assume it is illegal P2P sharing and they throttle you down? Or if you do "too much" video streaming they penalize you? Or give you more bandwidth?

This was Comcast. I have no idea exactly what they meant - but I do know that when we were away for a few weeks that when we came back it took a while before we got back to full speed. Must be some kind of intelligent sharing of a fixed bandwidth I guess but I don't know. We have no cable TV there so we do use it for streaming quite a lot as well as more conventional access.

Doug
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