Friday, September 7, 2012

An Apology, and A Promise

First of all, people who know me also know that I've been going through a pretty big move, and have been growing a couple fields of interest, and all of those things have been pretty time-consuming. It's pretty tough to take time to blog, and it REALLY does NOT help to have no internet (Thanks, Comcast! When I'm Emperor, I'll have you banned for putting caps on downloads, and blacklisting servers!... Read after the Page-Jump to hear the full story)... But, here comes the second part of the title, the PROMISE. I solemnly vow to stay up to date on this blog, devote more time to school, and also to keep up with my interests and to also hone my skills in those areas.





THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE, UP TO DATE, (NEARLY) BIAS FREE RESOURCE!!!

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"Excessive bandwidth" Policy
Comcast broadband has a controversial 300GB-per-month data transfer cap, which went into effect on October 1, 2008.[30] This policy is also reflected in Comcast Network Management page. The cap combines both upload and download for the total limit. If a user exceeds the cap, on a first offense, a warning email and/or phone call will be issued with information on how to track bandwidth usage by suggesting software monitoring programs. On the third offense within the next six months, the customer's residential services are terminated for one year. Comcast reserves the right to suspend any customer's internet service to examine their servers and it is up to their sole discretion on whether to issue a refund or not. Comcast reserves the right to do this without any notification. The monitoring window is from the first to last day of each calendar month.[31] (Currently monitoring of the 250GB cap is currently suspended)
Comcast has a policy of terminating broadband customers who use "excessive bandwidth", a term the company refused to define in its terms of service, which once said only that a customer's use should not "represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network."[32] Company responses to press inquiries suggest a limit of several hundred gigabytes per month.[33][34] In September 2007, Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas said the company defines "excessive use" as the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month.[35] Other company statements have said the limit varied from month to month, depending on the capacity of specificCMTS's, and that it affected only the top one-thousandth of high-speed Internet customers.
According to Comcast Customer Central, enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended.

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