Any of you ever got this msg from your internet provider?

[MasJ]

Well, I'll just simply end this part of the discussion with Del_Boy's victory atleast in Cox's case.
Yes, Mr Bob, you are wrong . While Cox is a great ISP undoubtedly, I'll tell you of some of their exploits. Kaiten, a guy who used to work on our website a long time ago (he made the PSX Emulators plugin page ), used to host files for us as well on his 10 MBps(yes, you read right..) Cox cable internet connection. This was about a year and a half back. He also used to host files for other random people etc. etc.
After about two weeks of serving for emuparadise, not only did he lose his cable connection but they filed a complaint, they had been packet sniffing and seeing that he was downloading warez and uploading what they called warez too.. So then cox, or should I say cocks , put up a complaint against him with the police and stuff too.
That was some tough shit. The first complaint from Cox was about excess bandwidth usage, (whilst he had .. *cough cough* unlimited, and also, one of their best packages). There was no second complaint, he had shut down the FTP, but subsequently, the service was withdrawn.
Not a good way to behave for the cocks, but really, they're a great ISP, a little screwy at times .

Also, most of the times all cable ISP's do mind if you're using the service in a way which slows down or lowers the quality of service to other consumers. For example, if you ping too many sites, you'll most likely lose your internet connection, mainly because the ISP is at risk of coming up on a DoS list.... Lots of reasons as to why a cable ISP may not like your excessive usage of bandwidth, however a fair deal would be that, if you have a.. say 512kbps connection then you should be allowed that full throttle of 512kbps 24x7. Unfortunately, in effective reality (outside the matrix..) that never happens