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5. Comcast has a bandwidth cap, 250 or 300GB per month

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 09:47 AM

Oct 2013

exceed it and they'll throttle your speeds. It's in their "acceptable use policy" under "network management".

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Commie-Cast has intentionally slowed down my internet connection! [View all] xfundy Oct 2013 OP

not sure what commie-cast is but shit happens on the internet. bowens43 Oct 2013 #1

Comcast n/t R. P. McMurphy Oct 2013 #2

Commie-Cast? MineralMan Oct 2013 #3

Check the fine print on your contact...... zabet Oct 2013 #4

Comcast has a bandwidth cap, 250 or 300GB per month Spider Jerusalem Oct 2013 #5

Explain bandwidth cap for me please madokie Oct 2013 #6

Basically thats an allowance of data transferred per month Spider Jerusalem Oct 2013 #7

Thx madokie Oct 2013 #8

I'll add that VPN over satellite is like watching paint dry seveneyes Oct 2013 #10

Greatly exacerbated by the idiotic state of website design and implementation Egalitarian Thug Oct 2013 #14

I hear ya. My hosts file is full of widget/junklet IPs seveneyes Oct 2013 #15

It's all about control seveneyes Oct 2013 #11

Naw, it's not, but ... LisaLynne Oct 2013 #12

I left something out of the OP. xfundy Oct 2013 #13