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Comcast to limit customers' broadband usage
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on August 30, 2008, 07:34:39 pm ---My router does not have a total bandwidth option. I guess the only way to monitor total bandwidth would be to have some kind of Linux-powered firewall box having this function between the router and switch or between the router and cable modem.
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Does it have alternative firmware? The only reason the router is the place to do it is because it is the only common link for all machines on your network going outwards that you also have control over. The modem would work but those tend to be more appliances than routers.
AmericanDemon:
--- Quote from: Malenko on August 30, 2008, 03:31:05 pm ---
I work for comcast , and I cant even bring up my usage (or anyone else's in the system) 250GB is ALOT
As for being a ploy...I dunno if I ran an ISP I wouldnt want people raping it. With Comcast being Comcast they'll prolly have a thing where you can pay $5 a month for an extra 250GB or something dumb like that.
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Me too. I'm a field tech in Bloomington, IN.
Hockeyboy:
A quick search shows a page where Comcast lays out the whys and whats about their upcoming "throttling" to usage. A typical home user would never come close to that limit, but I agree with several others on principle. How long before they say that 200Gb is now the new limit because only .8% of all users exceed that limit? Then it's 150, then 100, then they charge you fees every time you go over the new limits. It's a way for them to incur extra money in what could be considered fair practices by law but it's really a way for them to monitor your usage and marks the end of "unlimited internet access" for all. Don't think for a minute that the other big ISP players won't be joining Comcast in the near future, especially if they see that there's not a big noise made by Comcast users.
All I can do as a consumer is go with the best company offering the best services for the best rates and hope I'm not screwed 3 months after going into contract. :angry:
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on August 30, 2008, 03:26:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on August 30, 2008, 11:37:46 am ---I'm on Comcast. I wonder if there is a way for me to monitor total bandwidth usage for myself?
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Not without doing it in your router, or installing software on every PC in your house. Oh, and that won't count the Tivos and console games.
Did you seriously thinkComcast was going to give you a way to monitor your usage? That'd cost 'em money to roll out.
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Well you go the easy route and revert your modem to a bridge, get an old PC bang 98 or Windows 2000 on it and go heterogeneous. While you are doing that download http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm
To explain that big word I used - connect your modem acting as a bridge via a nic - no wireless - and connect another wireless nic to the other end or more cat5 whatever, and you can monitor, setup accounts so the kids have no internet after bed time, filter internet, protect your privacy more. Schedule your Netflix or Torrents.
I do that and I increase my Wifi protection by VPN directly into the server. Nobody could hack me if they tried. Data is centralized, backups are done and I have all my gear with the latest service packs. The NAS backups on the fly like time capsule on the MAC. Oh it goes to bed with wake on Lan.
If you have problems with routing your IP packets in Windows 2000 or 98 you can use AnalogX Proxy. Both programs are free and do work very well. I suggest that to willy nilly approach to home networking, as you can log any intrusion or breach and lock it down. My old server was a P90 laptop running NT4 Workstation. I could look at ITX instead if you wanted to start up from scratch.
Best of all small energy footprint. :applaud:
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Hockeyboy on August 31, 2008, 02:27:27 am ---All I can do as a consumer is go with the one company offering the only service for whatever rate they say and hope I'm not screwed 3 months after going into contract. :angry:
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fixt so it applies to a whole lot more people, including me.
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