How wrong you are if comcast did not over sell e.g they have 100mb/s but sell 30 people 8mb/s connections it dose not matter if the brat is using bittorent, youtube, watching a distance learning lecture from university or whatever legal service it will slow your connection. Only solution is to sell people dedicated traffic then what one person dose dose not affect anyone else. e.g comcast 100mb/s is sold to 20 people at 5mb/s.

As for running a server the “server” is the computer sending data to the recipient. So your computer becomes a server every time it checks for updates or whether you have new email. Even viewing a http web page you send data (acknowledgment packets)

so … cant quite remember how long each day there network was congested but i think it was 5%. or for 1.2 hours each day you wont quite get your 8mb/s or whatever speed you have.

So now Comcast will simply remove the P2P blocking it employs, and then tons of people will no longer be able to use the Internet at all due to one or more brats in their neighborhood using up all available bandwidth due to P2P file serving 24/7.

I don’t know that the method used by Comcast was the correct one, but they should be allowed to manage the network bandwidth as they see fit to ensure an equal and open experience for everyone. If they could somehow allow unfettered peer DOWNLOADING and only slow down peer UPLOADING then that would be perfect, since the standard home user contract states that you are not allowed to run a “server” and it would be a violation of the Terms Of Service that you agreed to when you signed up for Internet service with them.

CANADA has 30Kbytes a sec standard now

whats the average in the USA?