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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: The Nstuff on January 18, 2010, 08:31:56 PM

Title: Comcast Throttle bandwidth
Post by: The Nstuff on January 18, 2010, 08:31:56 PM

Just wondering if anyone else here has experienced this..  I downloaded around 5Gb today and all of a sudden my normal 30Mbps / 10Mbps @ 20ms ping has gone to 210Kbps / 170Kbps @ 465ms ping.


I thought I heard Comcast was doing some usage throttling (above and beyond the monthly 250Gb cap) and apparently they are... slightly old article on it:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/06/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets (http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/06/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets)


Just wondering if anyone else has experienced Mother ComNBCastic throttling? (attached pic of speedtest.net for pic-proof-goodness)

Title: Re: Comcast Throttle bandwidth
Post by: zx2slow on January 18, 2010, 09:49:26 PM

I saw something similar when I was clobbering my bandwith at a peak time.

Title: Re: Comcast Throttle bandwidth
Post by: The Nstuff on January 19, 2010, 07:00:53 PM

so, nanny comcast has decided i've been in the corner long enough and has let me go play with the rest of the kids again...


yay

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/688142198.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Comcast Throttle bandwidth
Post by: vincegun on January 19, 2010, 07:03:15 PM

I know I've come pretty gosh-darn close to hitting the 250 cap, but haven't seen my down or up speeds flux on either standard or torrent downloads. I just ran speedtest to both philly and d.c. and got a solid 18/6 with 22 ping on both.

Title: Re: Comcast Throttle bandwidth
Post by: sully! on January 25, 2010, 01:13:21 AM

Nstuff, it's more likely there were just some problems in your area. Once the problems were fixed, your speeds returned to normal.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/693832785.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)