[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[James Sumners]

In August, I used 93.65GB of bandwidth total. So far this month I have
used 37.75GB. I download quite a bit of material in excess of 4GBs at
a time, I use Vonage for my home phone service, and I play a lot of
online games. I'm really not sure how I feel about the 250GB cap.
Based on my two stats, it seems like a lot of bandwidth. But if I had
a connection with as much speed as Comcast offers, I don't know if it
would be enough.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:47 PM,  <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-starting-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-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.
>
> 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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