Re: Beware Cox customers!! There is a 40GB/month transfer limit!

Re: Beware Cox customers!! There is a 40GB/month transfer limit!

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Re: Beware Cox customers!! There is a 40GB/month transfer limit! f/fgeorge 07-10-2007
Posted by f/fgeorge on July 10, 2007, 8:19 am
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:52:20 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell

>
>
>On one forum regarding Internet radio, one guy mentioned that
>Cox has a 40GB monthly transfer limit, and will terminate
>customers who exceed that.
>
>Turns out this guy bought three Internet broadcasting accounts
>from Loudcity, and was streaming his radio station with
>a 128K, 64K and 32K feed, so you can see it would
>not be that hard to exceed 40GB per month.
>
>From what I understand, Cox terminated him for exceeding
>40GB per month. So Cox does have a 40GB per month
>transfer limit.
>
>If you are going to stream a radio station to Loudcity, Live
>365, etc, you might want to look for a program that
>supports 16K MP3Pro Stereo. The audio quality
>is quite good for a 16K feed. At a 16K bitrate,
>assuming a 30 day month, you would only use
>a little under 5GB per month, if you streamed
>live 24/7. I dont think very many cable companies
>(other than Adelphia) would whine too much about
>5GB of data transfer per month.

Wouldn't it just be better to get a Business Account and do it that
way. After all he was running a Business, a cheap low cost one, but
still a Business. FYI Comcast has a limit too, they do not terminate
your account, although if Cox gets away with terminating your account
in Court they will probably follow suit. Comcast currently just stops
your transfers for the month and then next month you are back up and
running. Comcasts numbers seem to come in when users download several
cd/dvd's worth of data. Again Comcast has a Business level account for
these types of people.

Posted by Bill M. on July 10, 2007, 11:59 am
wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:52:20 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
>
>>
>>
>>On one forum regarding Internet radio, one guy mentioned that
>>Cox has a 40GB monthly transfer limit, and will terminate
>>customers who exceed that.
>>
>>Turns out this guy bought three Internet broadcasting accounts
>>from Loudcity, and was streaming his radio station with
>>a 128K, 64K and 32K feed, so you can see it would
>>not be that hard to exceed 40GB per month.
>>
>>From what I understand, Cox terminated him for exceeding
>>40GB per month. So Cox does have a 40GB per month
>>transfer limit.
>>
>>If you are going to stream a radio station to Loudcity, Live
>>365, etc, you might want to look for a program that
>>supports 16K MP3Pro Stereo. The audio quality
>>is quite good for a 16K feed. At a 16K bitrate,
>>assuming a 30 day month, you would only use
>>a little under 5GB per month, if you streamed
>>live 24/7. I dont think very many cable companies
>>(other than Adelphia) would whine too much about
>>5GB of data transfer per month.
>
>Wouldn't it just be better to get a Business Account and do it that
>way. After all he was running a Business, a cheap low cost one, but
>still a Business. FYI Comcast has a limit too, they do not terminate
>your account, although if Cox gets away with terminating your account
>in Court they will probably follow suit. Comcast currently just stops
>your transfers for the month and then next month you are back up and
>running. Comcasts numbers seem to come in when users download several
>cd/dvd's worth of data. Again Comcast has a Business level account for
>these types of people.

It looks like you mixed apples and oranges regarding Comcast's
transfer limits and their resulting actions.

With the Comcast/Giganews service, transfers are limited to 2GB per
month (headers not included) and if you exceed that before the end of
the month, you are denied access to the Giganews server until the next
month. Each month starts on the 25th and runs to the following 24th.

With Comcast in general, including but not limited to Usenet, the
monthly transfer limit is flexible and is not communicated to
subscribers. Any monthly transfer amount, uploads and downloads
combined, that puts you in the top 0.1% (one tenth of one percent) of
users in your market can get you flagged as an abuser*. The first
offense gets you a warning. The second offense gets you booted from
Comcast for a minimum of one year.

*Comcast has discretion, of course. Some markets can bear more traffic
than others, some nodes are less populated than others, etc. Typical
monthly usage being informally reported along with the warning is
upwards of 300-400 GB per month, but can vary widely from market to
market. Customers receiving the initial warning call report being told
that offering to move up to a business account is not a solution.

--
Bill

Posted by Charles Newman on July 10, 2007, 5:32 pm

> wrote:


> market. Customers receiving the initial warning call report being told
> that offering to move up to a business account is not a solution.
>
>

That sounds like what Juno did in 2001, on their free service, when
they began booting customers for using 2 modems and 2 phone
lines to double the connection speed to about 100K. They
would not allow people to upgrade to their paid services,
who are booted off for using 2 modems and 2 phone lines.

Beginning with Windows 95c, Microsoft DUN was upgraded
to use more than 1 modem with the connection. It took a
few years for ISPs to catch up with that, but they began
booting users who did that.



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