[sllug-members]: Read my blog - Comcast disconnected my highspeed internet for 12 months!

[Clint Savage]

Fair enough.

Clint

On 2/22/07, Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com> wrote:
>
> Today at 11:52am, Clint Savage said:
>
> > I'd like to rebut the fact that UTOPIA puts limits on the
> bandwidth.  It's
> > NOT UTOPIA that implements the limits its the service providers like
> > XMission or others.  I've called and verified several times with AT&T
> that
> > they have absolutely NO limit on their internet service.  With haste, I
> will
> > say this is probably similar to the Comcast Unlimited, however.
>
> Then let me clarify my previous statement: UTOPIA does not put a limit,
> they impose a quota, and any usage beyond that quota incurs additional
> fees. They may tell you it is the provider charging for usage over that
> bandwidth, but they're charging the provider for the increased usage as
> well, so XMission for example is just passing on the extra fee they have
> to pay to UTOPIA when a user goes over the quota on their account.
>
> The charge is not levied on the customer by UTOPIA, it is levied on the
> ISP by UTOPIA, who has at its discretion to charge the user or to eat the
> extra cost by building the average overage fees into the base service
> cost. I for one don't blame an ISP who passes on the charges that they
> have to pay to the person who caused them to get charged, rather than
> passing them to all of us.
>
> Even with that quota, I am quite sure that UTOPIA will never disconnect
> you for using more than they expected you to use. They'll just charge your
> ISP more for the extra bandwidth you use, and your ISP may in turn charge
> you more.
>
> Mac
>
> >> The only place I know of at the moment that publishes quotas on usage
> is
> >> UTOPIA, which is 100GB per month. 1-3GB per month is way lower than
> that.
> >> Even back when XMission had quotas on DSL, it was 100GB/month, not
> >> including their unmetered times or within-network traffic.
>
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