Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-15 Thread Steve
My experience with MStar was that they needed to put some Viagra in their lines. They couldn't keep it up for very long. On Jan 15, 2008 8:35 AM, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Nyman wrote: I have utopia with xmission. They give me 100 gigs a month, I have gone over a couple of

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-15 Thread Ken Snyder
Jeff Nyman wrote: I have utopia with xmission. They give me 100 gigs a month, I have gone over a couple of times but they have never charged me for it. I've got MStar (with Utopia) in Orem and there is no cap whatsoever. I can usually get over 10mbit/s up and down. /* PLUG:

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-15 Thread Clint Savage
On Jan 15, 2008 8:35 AM, Ken Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Nyman wrote: I have utopia with xmission. They give me 100 gigs a month, I have gone over a couple of times but they have never charged me for it. I've got MStar (with Utopia) in Orem and there is no cap whatsoever. I can

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread Corey Edwards
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:07 -0700, MT Morales wrote: hmm... does Utopia charge for exceeding your bandwidth utilization cap? As I understand Utopia (I am not a customer, but have followed it somewhat), they charge the ISP for each bit that the customer uses. The ISP is free to bill for that as

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread MT Morales
hmm... does Utopia charge for exceeding your bandwidth utilization cap? On 1/10/08, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just makes me glad I've got Utopia. This could be a major coup for Utopia and other Muni Broadband projects. Q: Why should I pick Utopia over DSL or Cable? A: Besides being

RE: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Nyman
Subject: Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:07 -0700, MT Morales wrote: hmm... does Utopia charge for exceeding your bandwidth utilization cap? As I understand Utopia (I am not a customer, but have followed it somewhat), they charge the ISP for each bit

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Carey
On Jan 14, 2008 5:19 PM, Corey Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:07 -0700, MT Morales wrote: hmm... does Utopia charge for exceeding your bandwidth utilization cap? As I understand Utopia (I am not a customer, but have followed it somewhat), they charge the ISP for

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread Chris
On Jan 14, 2008 5:29 PM, Chris Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, from 0 to 100gigs is one flat fee, after the 100 gigs there is a additional fee per meg/per gig. Similar to a cell phone bill. Yup. Unlike Xmission's DSL service, Xmission residential UTOPIA circuits are metered with 100

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-14 Thread Steve
You 100GB guys need to move over to the 500GB for $50 deal they got going on right now. Call Xmission and let them know you want it, they'll be glad to upgrade you. Sincerely, Steve On Jan 14, 2008 6:05 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 5:29 PM, Chris Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-10 Thread Charles Curley
Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting What is reasonable network management? By Cade Metz in San Francisco Published Wednesday 9th January 2008 19:36 GMT At long last, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will investigate claims that Comcast has put a choke hold on P2P file-sharing

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-10 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 January 10 Thursday 07:28:33 AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: Speaking yesterday at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), FCC chairman Kevin Martin finally acknowledged four-month-old press reports questioning the American ISP's commitment to net neutrality. That's

Re: Feds to probe Comcast's BitTorrent busting

2008-01-10 Thread Steve
Just makes me glad I've got Utopia. This could be a major coup for Utopia and other Muni Broadband projects. Q: Why should I pick Utopia over DSL or Cable? A: Besides being over 10x faster than DSL, and 2-3x faster than cable, Utopia doesn't interfere with your data transfers linktoarticle