Email from ISP
 

Well, I think this is the first GOOD email I've ever gotten from an ISP. Usually it's something along the lines of "give us money" or, in the past, "stop violating copyright". This time, however, was "we just doubled the speed of your connection and aren't increasing your bill".

I'm totally ok with this, and speedtest.net confirms (mostly).

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2094383007.png

That's some sexy speeds right thar.

/me jealous. Here in Cali we'd be lucky to hit 12Mb/s.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2097296592.png

That's me. Well damn you got it good JR.

I'm a big fan of the speed increase, as now I don't feel like I need to stop seeding torrents when I want to play some games with friends. Keep my ratio up AND dominate in some Mass Effect multiplayer? Sounds good to me!

What's the point in keeping your ratio up?

Share ratio is relevant if you are using private trackers usually. Otherwise it's probably just some moral desire to give back as much as you get, which I think is bullshit. I share stuff just long enough to download it if I'm not using a private tracker.

As K_A said, it matters for me because I'm on a private tracker. A low enough ratio will get you kicked out. And the benefits of being on a private tracker (security and wicked fast speeds) make seeding well worth it.

I have a bunch of other people on my network, so I can't really manage to slow down our internet. Everyone'd get pissed at me.

The joys of living on my own. It's my internet and I'll do what I want with it.

Other than the fact that Comcast caps your bandwidth.

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and...excessive-use/

Since all the cool kids are doing it.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2098174919.png

This was done through my VNC server so the streaming data through the VNC may or may not have had an effect on the results.

I just recently dropped my PowerBOOST or whatever their bullshit service is where the first 10(?) MB of a download are at twice the normal speed. I was paying $10 a month for it and I haven't noticed the difference not having it.

Yah, I know. For the time being though, they're not enforcing the cap. Hopefully that will last as long as possible, and will result in a much higher cap than they currently have when it's reinstated.

Cap aside, comcast really had the best deal for speed in my area.

The link I provided claims that the new cap is or will be 300GB/month. It was 250GB/month

Is it only during peak hours, or for the entire month? If it's the latter, that sucks.

From what I understand it's for the month, which is pretty stupid.

That's in the area where they are testing the new caps/process of determing caps. I currently have no cap because they are not testing in my area.

And yes, it's for the month. Retarded.

So it sounds like "excessive" is a flexible adjective at the moment. It wouldn't necessarily be accurate to say that there is no cap, because if you go much over 250-300GB they will probably notice and say something if it's a continuous thing.

If they call and tell me my usage is excessive, I'll just tell them I'm drunk and they should fuck off

I feel like the only way to really reach that cap is watch a ton of movies.... actually, download a ton of movies.

I've seeded over 10GB in a day by accidentally leaving a torrent for a recently released TV show running. I've seeded over 200GB in a week by leaving an episode of another TV show seeding for 9 days while I was out of town.

Yah, yesterday I downloaded 1.45 gigs and seeded 12 gigs. And then if you factor in the livestream of NBC's olympic broadcast I had running, the time spent listening to last.fm, and whatever small amounts of bandwith were used by my Xbox when I was playing a game with some friends, it's not all that unfathomable that I could surpass the 250GB threshold. The main factor that gets me close to that cap is seeding. I've had to shut down utorrent in the past because I was over 240GB with several days left in the month.

So yeah, for any person who isn't seeding a torrent, 250 is a absurdly high amount.

Maybe, but for me the unacceptable part about the policy was that they used to cut off your internet entirely if you exceeded the cap twice in 6 months. No service for a YEAR. Not good if you live in an area where Comcast is your only option, or even the only good one. Another thing I don't like about the cap is that watching Xfinity(Comcast's TV service) on your computer or Xbox doesn't count against the cap, but Netflix, Hulu, and other competing services do. Net neutrality much?

That's dumb! Then again, sounds exactly like Comcast to me. Is there a way to check how much you've used?

There is, if you log into your account on the comcast website and actively look for it. They don't do any sort of email warnings or anything once you get close to the cap.

Speaking of current usage, thank god they've suspended enforcement of the cap. It's the 6th day of the month and I've already used 96GB

That's kind of insane. I'm gonna try to check on mine but I know it is nowhere near that.