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Jul 17th, 2003
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Re: Internet Speeds

Well, many of my college friends do it at their house as they share a cable connection thoughout the house. They all uncap and have about 50x's the speed they were already getting through cable. Yes it does violate the terms, but how would the SP find out? Do they keep track of how much bandwith is being sent?
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Optimum Online, my provider, keeps a very close watch on bandwidth usage. They even prohibit any servers from running and are willing to cancel your account for having an ftp server.
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how do you uncap your cable modem?
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Do they keep track of how much bandwith is being sent?
Just for public knowledge and forewarning most companies that are in the business of leasing lines or hosting server space keep very close track of bandwidth consumption aswell as anything else that may place strain on their network. The company I work for leases server space and bandwidth to customers. I have had to suspend sites/accounts in the past for either uncapping when one was placed and for peeking cap and not wanting to pay for it. So do be careful with it if you value your ISP, I know in some areas your choices can be limited and you may not find another company that will be as good as what you have. As far as your friends doing it and having yet to be caught surprises me if they are doing it on a regular basis. Either the sys admin's who monitor the ISP's logs dont care because the network is not suffering as yet or they are just slacking. At any rate do as you please ofcourse but now you know that uncapping is a monitorable event.
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A word about uncapping and sys admins...
uncapping is essentially abusing your agreement with them and if they are tight wads because they have overcommitted themselves they will want to make you pay for it if they think you are a small business or young user.
Most good ISPs are NOT nazis but the small ones are because they are petty criminals themselves, not really providing much in the way of service and access to something that is or was in essence free . Sys admins sound really scary and all and quite powerful but bear in mind that they are usually not up to date and overworked themselves. Hey Im a system administrator myself but much smaller scale and less experience. If you draw their attention than you are probably screwing up really bad. I suggest www.speedguide.net for info on optimizing your connection and learning about things within the bounds of your computer and connection. There are many many ways to increase your bandwidth and linespeed... you need to realize that if you uncap and havent optimized your connection already its a major waste. and if you are running file-share you are going to see more going out than in.

Added note on how sys admin/ISP can determine abuse... they typically have their lackeys monitor data rates and the like or will use packet sniffers ... a little hard to fool the good ones out that can 'sniff' out even what you are transmitting/recieving but if they are dedicating staff to watch your account then you either already know what you are into and should have bags packed or just brush up on 'naive look' when they confront you.. you may be able to get off on the "my computer was a script kiddie's zombie.." worked to get my friend of the hook
dont quote me on that just a little phun
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my internet is currently 10 meg, but it rarely gets to its potential. that is very annoying
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Ive got 16 meg.
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That does you no good at all if the website has a 56K modem.
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but i only go on daniweb and it doesnt
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How???
how can u update your speed from 3 kbps to 205 kbps??
plz tell me................plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

reply me the update procedure on:
hassaanid2008@yahoo.com

Thanks..............
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