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Re: Comcast Bait and Switch, "Unlimited" Has a New Meaning

Tom Horsley (tom.horsley@att.net)
Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:42:59 GMT

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:27:09 -0500 Chloe Albanesius
<pcmag@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> Blame Video

Nah, blame Comcast :-).

If using "too much" bandwidth is a problem some users are causing, the
obvious technical solution is simply to throttle the bandwidth to that
user. Comcast servers assign the IP address, Comcast servers know
which IP goes to which user. Surely the router technology exists to
delay delivery of packets to particular IP addresses, thus reducing
the effective bandwidth, but this would all require technical
competence -- an attribute hardly ever found in cable companies :-).

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