Cable Companies Test Bandwidth Access Limits

摘要

Comcast has recently begun testing a new way to deal with shrinking bandwidth: slowing usage, during peak times, for the heaviest Internet users. The tests will be first conducted in Chambers-burg, Pa., and Warrenton, Va., and later in Colorado Springs, Colo. They will run in each market for a month as the company tries to find the best way to manage its network. Comcast developed the plan after coming under scrutiny for slowing down peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic on its network because, it said, file-sharing was using too much bandwidth and causing a slowdown for other customers.