They’re at it again. This time, there’s a way to slip under the net, though. Comcast reduces your packet priority if you exceed 70% of your up or down pipe for more than 15 minutes. I think my up pipe is about 52 KB/s, but just to be safe I set my BitTorrent upload limit to 33 KB/s, less than 70% of that, and 0.6 KB/s less than 70% of the slowest upload pipe listed on their website. I’m glad that they now have concrete policies, and I’m happy that they’re no longer messing with BitTorrent directly, but I’m disappointed because I don’t see a meter anywhere so I can know how close I am to the dreaded 250 GB/month quota. I have no clue how much bandwidth I use.
I found this awesome rant on Microsoft’s almost criminal business practices and the buggy, bloated thing they call an operating system. There are some pretty ugly coding practices in there.