arstechnica.com — Comcast has finally announced that it will introduce 250GB per month bandwidth caps for all residential customers this fall. It insists that this is the same policy it always had, but with clearer limits.
Aug 28, 2008 View in Crawl 4
mtheoryxAug 29, 2008
@Bitruder:They are using terminology that is quite common.Sign up with a shared web host, and they call their monthly transfer limit...Bandwidth.They aren't capping your speed, they are capping your monthly transfer, and calling that Bandwidth cap. Not too friggin' hard to understand, IMHO.
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
I just cancelled. i'm moving to Fios. See ya. Oh, and I'm tanking my tv too. No more Comcast in my house.
noodsAug 31, 2008
"Still, investing in the infrastructure necessary to alleviate the need for caps is a better option for everyone involved."So everyone else that doesn't come close to the cap should cough up the money for expanding the network to meet peek capacity 24/7? Every customer's price should go up because a small fraction of the customer base use this much bandwidth?
badjohnbadSep 1, 2008
Oh won't you please just quit being so f**king pedantic?The point remains that 250GB is nearly 10GB a day. Anyone that uses more than that does so at the expense of others that share his exchange and other users of the internet as a whole. It's sheer greed and I don't think that Comcast is wrong here to simply elucidate numerically a pre existing stiplutaion in their terms and conditions of use. If you seriously need more than 10GB a day get a corporate ISP/leased line or Get the f**k Out.
magusat999Sep 7, 2008
It would seem that your college course didn't teach you the other side of capitalism. Capitalism doesn't mean that Companies get to do what they want and consumers lie down and pay for it. The consumer is also a capitalist, and that means he or she is ALSO looking for the most product for the least amount of money. That is part of what keeps capitalism working, otherwise our country would revert to Baronism, where people pay whatever the Baron desires without question. Because the consumers responsible for keeping prices down and competitive, this drive innovation and control in a capitalist nation, and keeps greed and gouging in check.It becomes imbalanced when the consumer is stunted and has no choice of competitive goods and services (Monopoly) as is seen going on today. As good capitalist consumers, we should never support monopolistic practices, or protection against consumer backlash (another problem we are facing today).If you weren't taught that in your Economics course, it's probably because the influence of big business has stenched up the classroom as it has every other part of society. But that can be unlearned - if your open to it, or not too far gone.
magusat999Sep 7, 2008
Dont assume everyone who uses that much is a thief.Did you know that you can buy / rent DVDs online and download them? And when I used to rent movies / games at Blockbuster (brick and mortar for those who don't know) I easily surpassed the equivalent of 2 DVDs per day. So if I were to download the same amount - say 6 DVDs every 2 days, which was my average, thats approx. (4.7 x 6) x 15 = 423GB per month. Those are not HD movies, either, BTW.
tallguy78Sep 11, 2008
Fine~ 250gb is more than enough, at least for now. Still, they need to provide a bandwidth meter to know if we'll exceed! I'm guessing I'm hovering around 200gb/month. According to some info (<a class="user" href="http://gigaom.com/2008/08/28/memo-to-comcast-show-me-the-meter-for-metered-broadband/),">http://gigaom.com/2008/08/28/memo-to-comcast-show- ...</a> there won't be a meter!!!! WTF? For me, majority of the download is streaming foreign television program and also I frequently visit nbc.com, fox.com for usual tv-series as well. Anyways...this really sux! The least they can do is provide bandwidth meter to know if I'm safe or not and be able to pay extra for more bandwidth.. isn't this common sense? As soon as FIOS comes..goodbye comcast!!!
menandmuoiSep 13, 2008
nice post
rupaa62Sep 18, 2008
I have dumped Comcast for internet and phone and went to FIOS with verizon because the cost is much cheaper.I would be currious once people starts hitting the caps in the next few months how they are going to charge their bill because what if someone has a triple play package. Whats Comcast going to do still bill them for that package? This seems more like a greedy money scam by comcast because people are jumping to FIOS.
addiktionNov 8, 2008
Sorry for the late response but no you can use DD-WRT to check your wan or lan information. the 18GB still registers as downloaded goods because it was coming from NBC's servers to your tv tuner which is then downloaded to your computer. The thing that sucks is I could of probably easily gotten up to 30GB or more by recording more events if I didn't stop my connection from being slowed down from Comcast servers.
comcastsuxballzDec 28, 2008
Yea .. pretty good math.. except what if you have siblings and not the only person using the internet. Sure 250GB for one person is decent, but if u have 3 other siblings that download their own movies... you're beat.
vbiggarJan 14, 2009
You are all a herd of sheep. People paying Comcast make me sick. The FCC won't do anything because they want jobs when then leave office. For you foreigners, shut the hell up. You lost your right to speak when you let your internet providers restrict your freedom. All of you make me sick, your pitiful. Even your Diggnation retards Kevin and Alex have jumped on board this since they are too retarded to do the math when drunk and have too much of your money to care.
alexvilleJan 20, 2009
You people in the US should be happy for what they gave you! In Canada, we got to deal with 60 GB caps on Rogers Internet, and thats not the lowest package! The highest package only has 90 GB!!If I had 250 GB cap I would be so happy.