Comcast to cap monthly bandwidth starting Oct. 1


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If you use over 250Gig of bandwidth a month, you deserve to be capped. What are you doing?!

Sorry?

I pay ?40 for a 20Mb connection and if i downloaded non stop for 24 hours i could get 192Gb a day its ridiculous to put small caps on really fast connections considering im paying a premium for it, luckily Virgin doesnt have a monthly cap.

I actually have Comcast and don't see that as a problem. I have the top Blast level, 16M/2M and I never get close. Comcast gives some examples on what it would take to reach the limit. If you did any one of the following you'd reach the limit:

* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)

* Download 62,500 4 MB songs (at 4 MB/song)

* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)

* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)

There is a simple way around this. Get Business Class, no limits. You get some extras with doing so, a different support number, a better business class modem, more e-mails addresses and you can run servers (on the home account level servers are a violation of the TOS). You can get a static IP for a little extra. At my level service in the market I'm in Business Class would cost $12.00 US more a month.

I'm going for it, but I'm changing some stuff in my computer room right now. I don't want them to come in to install the new equipment before I am done. I have to relocate the lines coming into the room.

Comcast says only about 2% hit that limit. They say some are surpassing most of the small business account users.

I :kiss: :heart: Verizon FiOS. Hope that they don't jump on the bandwagon :unsure: .

I am sure I am nowhere near that 250G limit even on my 5/2 Mbps FiOS line, I hate the idea of limiting me when I am paying $50/mo for it. :angry: Glad I got rid of Comcrap last year.

So Comcast also wants to get into the streaming movie biz as well. My question if you are a heavy movie watcher using there "wanna be" service would they cap you as well ...... hell no. And people thoght MS wanted to "take over the internet" Comcast seems to thiink just cause they are the biggest they can write there own rules and ignore how others do business. Seems this is a direct response to the last FCC ruling to me.

Dude.. CY... how the heck do you download over 1,000 GB? Oh wait..

"We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we provide a specific threshold for data usage and this would help them understand the amount of usage that would qualify as excessive," the company said in a statement on its Web site.

Am I the only one that finds something off about this statement? Why would people continue to ask for "a specific threshold for data usage"? The only logical explanation is that they would receive this feedback as a result of forcing restrictions on customers.

"La la la, life is good, download, download." *gasp* "What the!? Why's my intarwebs slow?!" *calls Comcast* "What? What limit? What cap!? Show me!" *feedback logged by Comcast*

250GB is plenty so there's no concern for me.

We have a 95 gb cap here in Canada with Rogers, which sucks, its not nearly enough, here is my repot for this month so far...

RogersUsage.jpg

At least you guys get 250 gb, thats a lot better than 95...

Seriously a TB in a month? That is exactly why ISPs are enacting caps, because of of torrents and ever increasing HD capacity, something had to give, and we all know it would be the ISPs.

The capping isn't bothering me as much as, when ISPs go the route of cable channel-like packaging, a certain amount of websites in a basic package, some for in a silver package, and then the gold package, where you get unlimited number of sites. It's only a matter of time.

Dude.. CY... how the heck do you download over 1,000 GB? Oh wait..

Am I the only one that finds something off about this statement? Why would people continue to ask for "a specific threshold for data usage"? The only logical explanation is that they would receive this feedback as a result of forcing restrictions on customers.

"La la la, life is good, download, download." *gasp* "What the!? Why's my intarwebs slow?!" *calls Comcast* "What? What limit? What cap!? Show me!" *feedback logged by Comcast*

250GB is plenty so there's no concern for me.

People DID ask. A couple people got turned off for downloading over 250 gb which spurred an outcry demanding comcast let them know if there was a "cap" and now there is. Be careful what you wish for.

just...wow bandwidth sucks in australia 30Mbit connection but only 25GB bandwidth could get 60GB but thats pushing $125+

would be nice to have 250GB but you'd have to be torrenting/downloading alot of useless crap that you'd never need or have no life watching every youtube video ever made :p

People DID ask. A couple people got turned off for downloading over 250 gb which spurred an outcry demanding comcast let them know if there was a "cap" and now there is. Be careful what you wish for.

I know that. My point is that it was not as if customers were going to Comcast asking to know this information without something prompting them to do it.

Sorry?

I pay ?40 for a 20Mb connection and if i downloaded non stop for 24 hours i could get 192Gb a day its ridiculous to put small caps on really fast connections considering im paying a premium for it, luckily Virgin doesnt have a monthly cap.

Yes but you wouldn't be able to download non stop @ 20MB for 24 hours due to VM's traffic management.

Radish?

Yeah im not disputing or complaining about traffic management, but when i pay ?40 a month for my internet i dont expect to have an unrealistic monthly cap, if they cant provide a decent level of service stop jacking up the speeds for free.

Isn't this like 8GB/day, every day of the month? Rather than talk about how people can use 250 in a month, can somebody give an example of a typical day where you would download more than 8GB? A *typical* day, meaning you could behave similarly for the next 29 days in a row.

Lord knows I'd get tired of Netflix really quick. Who can sit still, zoned out at a screen for two hours straight anyway? Maybe it's cuz I didn't grow up with the TV addiction...

P.S. If ISPs are worried about curbing this sort of behavior, though, it'd be nice if they could go with a solution that lets them potentially keep the customer. Just cap the user's speed at a rate that would prevent them from getting more than 250GB in a month on an average of 8 hours of surfing a day.

P.P.S. If you're in front of a computer downloading at full speed for more than 8 hours a day, get a freaking life man. Christ. There's a world out there, and you could probably use a jog in it.

Yeah im not disputing or complaining about traffic management, but when i pay ?40 a month for my internet i dont expect to have an unrealistic monthly cap, if they cant provide a decent level of service stop jacking up the speeds for free.

faster speeds != downloading more;))

my downloading habbits haven't really changed from being on 4Mb to being on 20Mb, it just means i get things quicker which is what a lot of people want

Here's his defense:

I work from home a lot, i have to remotely connect to work, internet radio, videos, internet games, yeah, this cap will definitely better meet my needs....

I always work from home, listen to internet radio every work day, stream videos almost each day, play online on my PC and my 360 and on top of that, I'm a web developer/designer, so I'm constantly uploading (granted these files are typically 1-6KB). A few months back I decided to download four seasons of one TV show that no longer airs and never received any indicator that I have approached any type of limit. I'm with Comcast, so my limit is obviously higher, but he racked up over a terabyte. That's far, far more than what he listed would use.

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