I saw an earlier post about DISHOnline affecting maximum limits that may be imposed by an ISP. This got my attention, so I checked with my cable ISP, both by talking to CSR as well as reading the Terms of Use, User Agreement, and Acceptable Use Policy. Both the CSR and my research indicated that I have no maximum upload/download/throughput limits, which is good obviously.
However, I found this little ditty buried in the EAP.
Now I am assuming this is standard boilerplate language in everyone's ISP agreement. The question is:
Does anyone have a sense of if this provision is often used by ISPs to prohibit VOD or other things DISHOnline is expected to offer? I know they probably wouldn't come back to me and say I am downloading too much info. But I can see them telling me that my DISHOnline downloads are slowing the system down.
I don't know if the intent of this provision was written primarily for nailing people for doing Denial of Service attacks or not. But I don't know how one could rebut that they are not the cause of ISP performance degredation. I guess, theoretically, anything I do (such as posting this message) uses up ISP resources. And on some rediculously minute level, degrades the service. In a sense, everyone is in violation of this provision everytime they use Internet. One is just simply at the mercy of the ISP if they plop this language on you.
Any thoughts? or Am I just being paraniod and over analyzing this too much?
However, I found this little ditty buried in the EAP.
Prohibited uses include using the service to: (viii) restrict, inhibit, interfere with or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation or manipulation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Insight (or Insight supplier) host, server, backbone network, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation or manipulation to any Insight (or Insight supplier) facilities used to deliver the Service;
Now I am assuming this is standard boilerplate language in everyone's ISP agreement. The question is:
Does anyone have a sense of if this provision is often used by ISPs to prohibit VOD or other things DISHOnline is expected to offer? I know they probably wouldn't come back to me and say I am downloading too much info. But I can see them telling me that my DISHOnline downloads are slowing the system down.
I don't know if the intent of this provision was written primarily for nailing people for doing Denial of Service attacks or not. But I don't know how one could rebut that they are not the cause of ISP performance degredation. I guess, theoretically, anything I do (such as posting this message) uses up ISP resources. And on some rediculously minute level, degrades the service. In a sense, everyone is in violation of this provision everytime they use Internet. One is just simply at the mercy of the ISP if they plop this language on you.
Any thoughts? or Am I just being paraniod and over analyzing this too much?