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COMCAST SHUTS DOWN SEATTLE MAN FOR USING TOO MUCH BANDWIDTH
July 18, 2011
Comcast has shut off the Internet service of a 39-year old Seattle gaming consultant and former Microsoftee Andre Vrignaud for using more than Comcast’s limit of 250 gigabytes per month.
The average Internet user does about 4 to 6 gigs a month by comparison.
According to a report on hothardware.com here Vrignaud was burning up the bandwidth tube with stuff like storing all his music in a 12TB basement server “which is ripped into lossless FLAC format and amounts to about a gig per CD,” says hothardware.
He also saves all of his photos in the very large RAW format, which can run over 10MB per picture and he uses an online backup system, among a whole host of other things.
A Comcast spokesman says the monthly 250 gig limit is intended to keep users like Vrignaud from impacting their neighbors Internet experience, which can occur during peak data usage times.
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