[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Calvin Harrigan]

krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> Comcast's 250GB Data Caps Now Official, Starting in October
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> http://gizmodo.com/5043253/comcasts-250gb-data-caps-now-official-starting-in-october
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> http://tinyurl.com/5uf9wj
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> Bad news for Comcast folks-the 250GB caps that were once rumored <http://gizmodo.com/387901/comcast-considering-250gb-monthly-data-caps-disconnecting-repeat-pirates>  are now officially official and will start October 1 for residential customers. But, instead of charging you for every GB you go beyond that in a month, Comcast is getting a bit more byzantine-if you blow the cap twice in six months, they may terminate your service altogether.
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> Comcast tries to ameliorate the news by putting the cap in terms even grandma can understand: 250GB = 50 million emails! 250,000 hi-res photo uploads of the grand kids! But in reality, if you're sharing your connection with roommates and downloading legitimate VOD stuff from Apple or Vudu, yet alone your torrentz, hitting 250GB in a month is not that far from reality. And now that Comcast has thrown their hat into the cap ring, it's not unlikely to assume other biggies will follow. Guhhhh.
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> keith
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I agree the capping sucks and believe me I am not a comcast fan, but 
where do you store all this data you download, new drives every couple 
months?  250 gig worth of web pages will take you more than a month to 
read, so I'm assuming it's data downloads and maybe vpn/rdp/etc 
traffic.  So that's 8.3 Gigabytes a day or 350 megs an hour...  Seems 
pretty generous to me, though I understand that they advertised and sold 
you unlimited access.

Calvin