The Comcast Banhammer. Welcome to insanity.

[OvRiDe]

I don't mind talking about legal torrents, although they are much rarer then the other stuff. So please just keep it to download speeds, etc, less focus on content of said downloads.

[d_stilgar]

I don't mind talking about legal torrents, although they are much rarer then the other stuff. So please just keep it to download speeds, etc, less focus on content of said downloads.

I thought it was a big big no no, but searching through past threads I think I'm wrong. That's good to know because there is a lot of freeware, open source stuff that gets distributed through torrents.

[x88x]

I don't mind talking about legal torrents, although they are much rarer then the other stuff. So please just keep it to download speeds, etc, less focus on content of said downloads.

Good to know. All too often, the bittorrent protocol in entirety is treated as illegal. It really is an amazing system, capable of almost complete decentralization and theoretically infinite transfer speeds.

Also, in all honesty the vast majority of that 1,386GB was from various rainbow and precomputed hash tables...those things are entirely too big.

[dr.walrus]

...I actually thought everyone was talking about pr0n?

[NightrainSrt4]

I hear ya about the FiOS stuff. Apparently my city has it all over yet I can't get it at my apartment because they have some dealio with Comcast. I can get a lowly DSL line, but not fios, even though the Verizon station building is DIRECTLY across the street from the apartments.

For those with comcast you can monitor your monthly usage. Log into customers.comcast.com and it's under User's & Settings. It's nice that they actually let you see what your usage is, compared to before when they would just tell you that you went over and you had no way of knowing.

When I switched the fiance and my gaming rigs over to new OS' (mine to 7, her's to Vista), my laptop to 7, and the htpc to 7, I had to stop reinstalling our Steam games as just that alone on the gaming rigs was pushing the cap. Had to wait till the next month to install the rest.

[x88x]

When I switched the fiance and my gaming rigs over to new OS' (mine to 7, her's to Vista), my laptop to 7, and the htpc to 7, I had to stop reinstalling our Steam games as just that alone on the gaming rigs was pushing the cap. Had to wait till the next month to install the rest.

This is a great example of why it's completely ridiculous.

[Luke122]

In the first month when we moved to our new place, we had 3 machines running (mine, wifes, roomates) and we moved 750gb in less than 30 days. We got a phone call.

[diluzio91]

so stupid... havn't run into this as i live in wisconsin and have roadrunner at home, but god it sounds retarded...

[d_stilgar]

The whole cap this is moronic. I had thee months where I lived in a complex with internet included, but torrents and internet gaming was blocked, which for me is the same as no internet.

Needless to say when I moved to Vegas I had some catching up to do. I had over 1tb of use a month and never got a call. I love big cities for that reason alone.

Also, NBC was using a bit-torrent client of their own so people could share HD content from their site. There were ads included in the client/player, but the system could have been really good. Where it failed was that after sharing my bandwidth to have HD content without buffering, they only let you watch it for a certain time and then it disappeared. That was where it got stupid for me. I shared my bandwidth and had to watch ads, but then I can only watch it for a two week period and it deletes itself.

If they were getting ad revenue each time I watched, then why not let me keep it forever? Ad revenue is why it was on TV in the first place right? Now I have TV on demand on my computer forever that I share with other people and they get the revenue! It could have been genius, but they messed it up.

[Kayin]

**** you all. My connection is a Verizon aircard shared with 4 computers on a 5GB cap.

Guess who has a 400+ dollar phone bill.

DSL runs along the road, and they refuse to give it to us. REFUSE.