Still talking about Gnutella, a P2P client, fit's the mold so no surprise there. Then you have someone SENDING a huge email attachment. Upload bandwidth is concern #1 for them.
Of course they are now admitting to download cap which is more of a direct breach of contract with the customer and a down right outrage since the "excessive" level is a moving target. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/09/comcast-custome.html Meanwhile they contract with Giganews giving every subscriber a 2GB/mo account: http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/ Double message, or "just enough rope to hang yourself"? Brian Weeden wrote: > And it's not just bit torrent that is getting blocked: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-comcast-traffic-blocking-even-more-apps-groupware-clients-affected.html > > Like I said, the ISPs have oversold their bandwidth and now that > people are actually starting to use their 3mb/6mb/whatever pipes > instead of laying more infrastructure they are just finding better > ways of blocking traffic. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
