What’s really behind the Comcast 250 GB bandwidth cap
September 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM by Esme Vos
So you think it’s the FCC’s order telling Comcast not to block P2P applications? Not so, according to Harold Feld of the Media Access Project. It’s actually Comcast’s settlement with the Florida Attorney General. Apparently, Comcast had kicked off the highest 1000 users regardless of bandwidth use or geographical location because they were violating Comcast’s “excessive use of capacity” policy. The Florida Attorney General sued Comcast finding that simply shutting out the top 1000 users did not meet the standards…
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