Commcast

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

They tagged me for going over the bandwidth and I am planning to fight it in court to the best of my ability, if I win than I am going to provide them with a class-action lawsuit due to the fact that the last document I signed from them told me that I had no bandwidth, and that was put into a contract when I got their special 33$/month deal. Plus I think they pulled some Enron math on me, you can even look at their discription page for what you can do with 250gb:

* Sending 20,000 high-resolution photos,
* Sending 40 million emails;
* Downloading 50,000 songs; or
* Viewing 8,000 movie trailers.

…but then lower down on the same page, they say:

* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 4 MB songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)

Either way, my account is subject for termination so I might be offline for a whille. (extra points if you find me a set of .05kb emails)

[Zeitgeist]

i dont understand how you could possibly have used up the maximum bandwidth?

[Drunken F00l]

I bet the document you signed also said it was subject to change without notification to you.

[Versed]

I say you go in there, do a My Cousin Vinny and then plead insanity on the basis that cats pee on the carpet. I think this will work solid in any court system.

[avy]

Its alot of effort to get people to jump on the bandwagon for a class-action lawsuit... besides, this is comcast, they have been screwing people for years and getting away with it, I'm sure they have got some primo lawyers.

Good luck nonetheless.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

i dont understand how you could possibly have used up the maximum bandwidth*(?)

You download more than 250 gigs.

It isn't that complicated.

*(statements aren't questions)

[Asai]

I used to be on comcast for my tv and inet but fios came through my area and with the price lock (i had to sigh a contract for a year) i actually reduced my tv and inet bill by 43 dollars a month. I can not host a server on fios but i don't do that anyway. Comcast is a large corporation and they don't get that big by writing a bunch of checks or making the rules in favor of the customer. The problem with comcast is that they in some areas are a monopoly and can make captive customers, in that case they have you by the short and curlies. Competiton in the market place is in my experience the only way to get any corporation (by the way in my opinion corporations are the greatest evil mankind has yet to deal with) to deal fair.
When i went to comcast to trun in my modem and converter box i mentioned that i was switching to fios and told the rep that by switching i saved 43 dollars a month. Her response to me was "they could not get you to stay with a discount?" my rsponse was "you had to know fios was coming through and should have made your rates lower to intice me to stay instead of happily accepting my money and hoping for me to remain ignorant" I know it was not the reps fault and she was just doing her job but still.
Anyhoo i am happy to report that i am a fios customer and my bandwidth actually doubled both up and down....... sweet! I wish you the best of luck but you have to consider that legal expenses are a write off for most corporations and it is cheaper for them to shovel money and an attorney to bury you in paper than it would be for them to resolve this situation fairly. As i said evil has a name and a face and it is corporate world..

Asai

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I used to be on comcast for my tv and inet but fios came through my area and with the price lock (i had to sigh a contract for a year) i actually reduced my tv and inet bill by 43 dollars a month. I can not host a server on fios but i don't do that anyway. Comcast is a large corporation and they don't get that big by writing a bunch of checks or making the rules in favor of the customer. The problem with comcast is that they in some areas are a monopoly and can make captive customers, in that case they have you by the short and curlies. Competiton in the market place is in my experience the only way to get any corporation (by the way in my opinion corporations are the greatest evil mankind has yet to deal with) to deal fair.
When i went to comcast to trun in my modem and converter box i mentioned that i was switching to fios and told the rep that by switching i saved 43 dollars a month. Her response to me was "they could not get you to stay with a discount?" my rsponse was "you had to know fios was coming through and should have made your rates lower to intice me to stay instead of happily accepting my money and hoping for me to remain ignorant" I know it was not the reps fault and she was just doing her job but still.
Anyhoo i am happy to report that i am a fios customer and my bandwidth actually doubled both up and down....... sweet! I wish you the best of luck but you have to consider that legal expenses are a write off for most corporations and it is cheaper for them to shovel money and an attorney to bury you in paper than it would be for them to resolve this situation fairly. As i said evil has a name and a face and it is corporate world..

Asai

Yea i want FiOS but it's not in my area



Sucks what happened to ya omega, like, if I was you, i'd do anything to fight this sh**. Unless you really did download over 250GB without a care in the world.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

another update.

They completely refused to go to court, they even credited me for this month as an apology for their shutting my internet down. WHAT THE FUCK!?

I think they love me as a customer or have no legal backing to anything they do. (and since before this rule I was hitting up 1-2TB/month, I doubt they want anything to do with me)

[Retribution]

going to court cost money, i already been pegged 2 times from copyright violations in the past 6 months, but they only ask that you remove the material in question
everytime they go to court, it costs them $1000s, so unless they have a good chance of profiting, they won't do it