I haven’t had Comcast as an ISP for awhile now, but I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if Comcast was cutting people off based on traffic patterns. I’ve heard that ISPs are trying to do more to disrupt botnets, and one of the things they do is look for traffic patterns generated by trojan horses.

Thanks for your comment and for sharing the information!

I think that certain traffic patterns and behaviour lead to your internet getting disconnected. It has happened with large torrent files and it was only temporary. I didn’t have to reset the modem and I could get back on within maybe 15minutes tops. However, with this larger issue that I had – I was transferring files just fine for 6hrs+ all day while working. It was only after work hours that my internet went out and I had to actually reset the modem. I even had to call them a second time.

I most definitely am convinced that Comcast throttles or disconnects service under certain conditions. In my case, there was nothing ever illegal. Do they want to claim I’m using the internet for business when I’m just working from home temporarily??? Come on.

I’d be very interested to know if something Comcast is doing is actually causing your video uploads to crap out, so let me know what you find out. Thanks!

The thing with ISP’s is that they don’t always have full control over the physical wires that bring the service to your house. For DSL, the wire is actually the responsibility of whoever the major phone carrier is in your area and the DSL provider leases it from them. With Comcast, they own the actual wire on the pole, so if their service is crappy and it’s a result of bad or outdated wiring, then there is only one company to blame: Comcast.

What a greedy horrible company. I can’t wait for fios or some other broadband alternative to come take over Denver broadband. Everyone is sick of the monopoly that they have on us.

I’ve added that link to one of my other posts where I’m keeping articles related to this topic.