Uncapped Bandwidth good or bad thing?

[Ghost_25inf]

Well it seams alot of people take the no side. But I dont get why I got so many neg points for this post, its not like I acually did uncap. But any ways thank you all for your input be it bad or good it got everyone including myself to think. I read of several people in Ohio who got arrested by the FBI for this same thing. Didn't know the cable companys had that type of power. Thanks again for the input....

[indolent]

Originally posted here by Ghost_25inf
I read of several people in Ohio who got arrested by the FBI for this same thing. Didn't know the cable companys had that type of power. Thanks again for the input....

well, uncapping could be labeled as defrauding the cable company and therefore the FBI could potentially be brought in, idk, just a thought.

[slarty]

Uncapping is a clear violation of the acceptable use policy of the cable companies. It also steals bandwidth from your neighbours.

Remember it isn't some faceless corporation you're stealing from to leech your MP3s, but other people who are attempting to use the internet.

[hatebreed2000]

Now what im about to say could be it or not....im going by how my cable ISP works, as all do but, well let me explain, a CMTS will enable as many as 1,000 users to connect to the Internet through a single 6-MHz channel. Since a single channel is capable of 30 to 40 megabits per second (Mbps) of total throughput, this means that users may see far better performance than is available with standard dial-up modems. The single channel aspect, though, can also lead to one of the issues some users experience with cable modems.if you are one of the first users to connect to the Internet through a particular cable channel, then you may have nearly the entire bandwidth of the channel available for your use. As new users, especially heavy access users, are connected to the channel, you will have to share that bandwidth, and may see your performance degrade as a result. It is possible that, in times of heavy usage with many connected users, performance will be far below the theoretical maximums. The good news is that this particular performance issue can be resolved by the cable company adding a new channel and splitting the base of users, see cause a cable company that offers Internet can use the same cables as the ones used for your cable TV because the cable modem system puts downstream data, data sent from the Internet to an individual computer, into a 6-MHz channel. on the cable, the data looks just like a TV channel. so Internet downstream data takes up the same amount of cable space as any single channel of programming. upstream data information sent from an individual back to the Internet, requires even less of the cable's bandwidth, just 2 MHz, since the assumption is that most people download far more information than they upload.......so in short, I think your ISP is like mine, they just suck. because like what others said earlier they are excedding the maximum amount of users for that cable and they need to open another channel, I could be wrong.

[King of CaveMen]

I got so fed up with cable's limitations such as blocking port 80, and the terrible upload speeds, that i ditched it and got a fractional T1. **** cable. If you are serious about computers, and want to do more than visit a couple web sites a day, cable isn't for you.

That kinda speed would cost me a few hundred $$$ a month, personally I don't have that kinda money - yet.

[mindpilot]

ok...so I have a cable connection that advertises 1.5 download and 256 upload. I get 210kps download, which is good yes. Can I do anything to get more??? How do i "uncap" as we are discussing here? I could careless if its illegal. i work for Comcast!! hahaah!

[XoN-ASSIM]

I agree with isabyon. My connection here at home is 4.5megabit or 4500kilobit but in the download windows the most I have ever gotten is 500kilobytes a second. Heh my ISP does get pissed off at me when I overload ther crapy servers by having to many open connections at once... I like hoging bandwidth when I need it but most of the time I dont so what the heck I'll just take the average

[King of CaveMen]

Whoah 500kb/s a second don'tt complain dude, i was on 56k for YEARS before they rolled out highspeed bandwidth in this redneck town i live in.

by the way how much money does that connection cost you? and what part of town do you live in? urban? rural? surbban?

[mindpilot]

no crap...that rocks!!!!!

[VictorKaum]

Originally posted here by XoN-ASSIM
I agree with isabyon. My connection here at home is 4.5megabit or 4500kilobit but in the download windows the most I have ever gotten is 500kilobytes a second. Heh my ISP does get pissed off at me when I overload ther crapy servers by having to many open connections at once... I like hoging bandwidth when I need it but most of the time I dont so what the heck I'll just take the average

sorry but 500kbytes is very fast for a cable connection and still good for a 4.5 megabit connection. Like Isabyon explained -> 1byte is 8bit. So to calculate your maximum theorethical speed (which means you have no loss at all on the lines and no congestions) you do 4.5 x 1024kbps = 4608 and divide that by 8 -> 4608 / 8 = 576
So your maximum download speed from you to your CMTS is 576kbytes.
If you get 500kB that means you still have 500 x 8 = 4000kbps or 4Mbit. This speed is 86,8 % of your line speed, this is very good. I don't think many ISP have this kind of ratio's for their users.