Transfer amount limit over over online backup, male to stop line disposal

byThe_Jorr

Comcast which is a major cable television company in the United States and also a provider dispose of line suspension to a man living in Seattle. The man is using the online backup service and seems to have broken the contract that stipulated "It does not exceed the prescribed transfer amount for two consecutive months" for one year.

Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/seattle-comcast/

Andre Vrignaud (39), a game consultant who lives in Seattle, received a warning from Comcast that "the amount of data transfer has been exceeded" and received line suspension. He said Comcast's "Do not transfer 250 GB or more for 2 consecutive monthsHe continued to break the convention of one year.

"I thought it was strange because two of the modem's lamps were blinking," Vrignaud said, "If ISkypeYaVoIPIf it depends on the service ... I will be horrified. "

When the modem's lamp first flashed, Vrignaud thought what was wrong. At first, we turned off the router and restarted. Then, to the roommate who used the same line via the router,YouTubeYaNetFlix,PandoraI asked for refraining from using the site where the amount of transfer is large like. On the other hand, Vrignaud did not think Comcast was the cause.

Just recently, Vrignaud has an online backup systemMozyFromCarboniteI switched to. This is because Mozy cancels the service with unlimited backup capacity, Carbonite adopts the system which adjusts the transfer speed according to the upload amount of the user without the capacity limit.

Vrignaud is a hardcore geek that shared a lot of data on the cloud to spread the goodness of Xbox 360 and XboxLive. Also, musicFLACIt ripped in format and was placed on a 12 TB RAID server (that 12 TB was not crowded). In addition, Vrignaud who is also an amateur photographer possesses a lot of RAW data (about 10 MB per piece) of pictures. I was taking backup of these. In addition, Amazon.com's cloud music service which became unlimited capacity just since the beginning of July "Cloud Drive"We uploaded the collection on hand at hand.

Last month I also admitted that I used BitTorrent Vrignaud. However, it says that it only downloaded a few SF programs in the UK that can not be seen in America.

Comcast that made a line stop to such Vrignaud insisted that he is not switching to a business plan where the speed is slow but the transfer amount is unlimited. In response to Wired.com's interview, "Vrignaud said there was negligence that did not control its band."

According to Comcast's Charlie Douglas news coverage, this 250 GB transfer limit was introduced in October 2008 on the premise that P2P restrictions do not apply, so that users like Vrignaud will not affect neighbors What was set to. The middle value of monthly transfer amount of Comcast user is 4 GB ~ 6 GB, "There is not much that we can say, Mr. Vignaud repeatedly read the rules and if we break the rules again within 6 months If so, we will suspend account suspension, which is our policy. "

In the Internet using cables, cables are shared objects, and as the number of data transfers increases, the overall speed gets slower. In the US it seems that the line will be very late at night, but this is because many people connect to the net for entertainment. To respond to this, in ComcastDOCSISI've been trying to improve the speed by raising the version of.

Vrignaud said that Comcast is restricting the amount of transfer, so I think that Cable Television business, which is the original core business of Comcast, is protected from NetFlix and Hulu. He currently works with his neighbors' access points and Internet cafes. However, this line also belongs to Comcast. Verizon, a major telecommunications company, also laid the optical fiber near Seattle, but it seems he gave up on the development in this area because it was blocked by the franchise of Comcast.

Vrignaud says he is not planning to give up on Comcast as it is. We are also looking forward to petitions to politicians and regulators in the future, he says, "I am disappointed with a situation where a really bad company has not been asked for improvement."

One comcast commented, "People who need terabyte-level backup should manage more carefully how much they are consuming lines."

By the way, in JapanAs of 2008, 40% of providers restricted the bandwidth of heavy userswas doing.