Welcome to the Comcast Haters Club. Believe me, you certainly are not alone. Pretty simple to figure out, they sell you the idea of great speeds, but just don't bother to tell you that your not suppose to use it. Too cheap to invest in infrastructure, so the alternative is basically to cancel anyone who takes advantage of what they are paying for. Look around the net and you will find lots of Comcast haters who have had their accounts canceled for usage. I myself got my account temporarily suspended a year ago. I had no service, thought I was maybe late in payment. Checked, payment was made so I called them. After a very long run around I finally talked to someone who explained I had excessive usage. I had about 120GB month transfer between home and office. Basically most days I worked from home just using a VPN, and transferred files and backups. Their solution was to try and sell me Comcast business for home. Sorry, but if I stay at home and use my phone...do I need a business phone line to make calls? No, never had Qwest complain about my phone usage. You might want to consider waiting for Fiber to reach you. From what I read after my problems with Comcast, I got the feeling Fiber is going to be the future unless cable changes their model. Most importantly, I read interviews with Verizon where they specifically addressed what cable companies like Comcast do, and they stated quite clearly this will not be an issue with fiber. Problem is we really do not have honest to good competition. I simply can not understand why cable can not be opened up like the telephone system was. Can anyone explain that? Where I live I have gone through 2 different cable companies, so it is not like Comcast can lay claim to the infrastructure as theirs, since they bought this area from Time Warner. They really need to open this up, because it is ridiculous the prices now. $60+ for basic commercial supported cable! For $60 I should be getting commercial free movie channels. I do believe that part of the deal they make to carry each channel, Comcast gets their own time slots they can advertise and re-sell. Quoting Marc Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net>: > well, they just did it to me! they are now blocking port 25! i called > and complained and they say - that they saw 5,000 emails or more come > from my cable modem on a single day. so they are preventing that port > now - and will not fix it. > > i know my system isn't sending that - i have no windows boxes, and the > majority of my traffic is sent via a VPN. i did however download about > 500gb of corp data to my fileserver ( i work for red hat - need to > synchronize all the software, etc) - and i'm sure that is what they > flagged me - a large amount of data over a short amount of time. i had > been happy with comcast but this is not cool. > > it also seems that they have reduced my upload speed from 4mb to 1.5mb > ... but i'll have to do some more testing to verify. > > might be time to increase my DSL circuit. i have always had a slow > 1.5mb DSL line as a backup, since my wife and i both work from home, and > both our jobs rely on internet connectivity, i felt it worth the extra > $20 a month for a slow backup line. it actually comes in handy about > 3-4 times a year, as my comcast line will go down for 1-3 days a couple > of times during the year ... usually due to the local neighbourhood > comcast visit that screws up something for the entire neighbourhood > until i call and complain - like this weekend! > > might also have to look at the business comacast offering - faster and > supposedly no limits or restrictions. anybody have that? i live in > burnsville so any feed back regarding the comcast business offering > would be useful. > > thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >