UCI Housing Network and Cable TV Issues

Apparently, UCI Resnet doesn't understand their own network...
They seem to have some network performance issues, and instead of actually getting people who understand networks, they decided to just cap the bandwidth for everybody...
Needless to say, that didn't go well with a lot of people, and they got flooded with complaints.
Their standard answer was this boilerplate stuff:

Due to the connection instability experienced by various housing complexes, we have decided to focus first on providing a reliable and consistent connection speed on the internet, then secondly about providing higher speeds on a stable connection. We are currently working on the stability and reliability portion. As a result, the speed cap has been set at 2Mbp/s, and will likely remain in place for the foreseeable future.

But it seems the pressure from the complaints got too big. So, today they emailed this out:

Due to the numerous concerns for bandwidth restrictions, we have decided to go ahead and release the cap temporarily to see its effect on our network. If you notice any degradation in network stability, please let us know.