[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Jeff Lightner]

In fact parts of this story were missed in that others ALREADY have caps
of 10-30 GB per month so in comparison 250 GB per month seems quite
generous.  However, as with the other posts I still think it sucks big
time.

I do disagree a little with the prior post - the 250 GB is data transfer
not necessarily "stored".  If you watch videos on line or surf porn
sites (or maybe just your own Family's shared pictures on places like
Flickr) you're apt to have quite a lot of "transfer" that you don't keep
permanently.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Calvin Harrigan
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 1:03 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> Comcast's 250GB Data Caps Now Official, Starting in October
>
>
http://gizmodo.com/5043253/comcasts-250gb-data-caps-now-official-startin
g-in-october
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5uf9wj
>
> Bad news for Comcast folks-the 250GB caps that were once rumored
<http://gizmodo.com/387901/comcast-considering-250gb-monthly-data-caps-d
isconnecting-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.
>
> 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.
>
> keith
>
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> Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
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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
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