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Title: Comcast bandwidth throttling effective in all markets Post by: Alex on January 06, 2009, 11:37:02 AM Comcast bandwidth throttling effective in all markets
Comcast is fighting back against what it calls excessive bandwidth users. The company confirmed that it has successfully deployed throttling technology to all its markets. Comcast claims that the technology is to help make everyone get the same experience and have equal opportunity to the bandwidth. The throttling works in a manner that your data can be put in two classes; PBE (Priority Best-Effort) or BE (Best-Effort) with preference being PBE. This is determined by "sustained use of 70% of your up or downstream throughput triggers the BE state, at which point you'll find your traffic priority lowered until your usage drops to 50% of your provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth for up to 15 minutes. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/CjBzItp-fbE/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets |