news.cnet.com — When Comcast announced last week that it was instituting a formal usage cap for residential customers-- a total of 250 gigabytes of data transfer (uploading plus downloading), as described here-- I didn't think much of it, except to be happy they finally defined a critical element of their service guarantee. The previous level of ambiguity was anno
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smacksawSep 4, 2008
@ norman619Yeah, and you probably worked in billing since your answer has no technical grounding in reality.HOSTSNow Google.
curtismeekerSep 4, 2008
Currently my download cap is 60gb, and sadly in the last 6 days I've used over 30gb of it.
login01Sep 4, 2008
You guys don’t get it --- Comcast is not implementing the Cap to avoid p-to-p, it is implementing the cap to create a walled garden, preventing IPTV from being used on their network. The cap is not to prevent bits from moving through their network, but a competitive move to keep outside providers on selling (providing for free) services from outside the Comcast network. My question is how many areas, states and cities have Comcast as their exclusive cable provider and is the Federal Trade Commission looking into this Antitrust issue?
halsfieldSep 4, 2008
yea exactly, i didnt say he was downloading illegal torrents, there is a lot of free music out there in good quality like the stuff NIN released, a lot of dj sample mixes , movies people upload on scene sites that show you how to dj, edit samples, etc.and in a month we can easily rack up 150gb of downloads and 100gb of uploads.Also i downloaded warhammer's beta via a torrent, everquest trial(huge download if you've ever done it)and redownloaded a lot of pc games the cds have broken to, diablo 2, etc.YOU ARE NOT TAKING ALL THE OPTIONS INTO ACCOUNT.
digitalbrianSep 4, 2008
yeah so you must be downloading porn and warez then?
antdudeSep 5, 2008
I have FiOS and DSL over here. :( Screw dial-up, satellite, etc. that are slow and more expensive.
grapheadsSep 5, 2008
Can anyone say rollover bandwidth? This is such bs!
Closed AccountSep 11, 2008
i don't work at home, i work FROM home.
corvidaeSep 14, 2008
"So in a sense Comcast has a monopoly in most states."Very true. I'm actually expecting either a forced line leasing similar to what they did with DSL(Which didn't seem to work so well), or eventual regulation similar to the power companies.Every solution is going to end up with problems, and since our government and businesses are notoriously short sighted, I'm expecting a loud and frantic debate for years to come.