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- cyberpear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Comcast has a monopoly in many areas, so this isn't always an option.
- clearzen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24I really thought everyone knew this a long time ago. I've seen reports of comcast doing this for well over a year. 200GB was speculated then too. What I want to know is how do they get away with advertising unlimited use in regulated areas?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22200GB should be enough for anyone /Comcast
- Mast3rDigg3r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22I'm glad comcast is the only provider in my area...
- adambadam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I wonder if it is truly a download cap or if they are including upload in there too for a true bandwidth cap?
- Dagarik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Well, if it makes you guys feel any better I am paying out the ass for 8mbit ADSL1 which has a 20GB/month cap. ***** Australian broadband.
- mikesly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I am sure Comcast overtaxes all of its networks...
- neomis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14It isn't whether 200gb is fair it comes down to if you advertise unlimited then you have to provide unlimited. If you want to offer 200gb/month that's fine also just don't call it unlimited
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Whichever makes them more money.
It's really simple to think like a corporation. Try it.
"Should we poison this river?"
"Will it make us more money?"
"Yes."
"You have your answer" - matguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Hmm, being I got a letter a while ago, does that mean I can complain that the network in my area is sub-par?
- nexmachina, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8ON THE MONEY! remember when the "It's Comcastic" (more like Craptastic) PR campaign hit? Well what a coincidence, my inet goes down for a whole week, and what was their response? "We are not seeing any issues". Turns out (word of mouth from a Comcast technician who was mad), they oversold on bandwidth... They upgraded their 3Mb customers to 7Mb, and said the hell with everything else. So yes Labthug, Comcast is notorious for doing shady *****, and overtaxing their networks is A+.
- ACrazyGerman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Its called a ***** Lag spike every one gets them.
- gr3yn3t, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7and 640K of memory should be enough for anybody.
- erinspice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Repeat after me! "Bandwidth is a rate, not a volume."
- hartley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You copy/pasted that from your own archives didn't you?
Stop using virus ridden p2p programs to download porn. - BRODEL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6If I could, I would. Come on FIOS!!
- brada33928, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6200gb data transfer is enough, just like 640k memory was thought to be enough. I can't wait until Google takes over the 700mhz spectrum. Then none of this ***** will matter.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6a few months ago, i was hitting over 200+ for about 3 months straight. between incoming net radio streams, and passage of work data (was doing huge database movement), and some bittorrent stuff here and there, 200+ was easy to knock out.
you have to realize that knocking out 200gb in a month is only roughly an average of 80kbps, which is laughably easy to do if you have a box dedicated solely to downloading predefined things. - padfoot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What the ***** are you downloading?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I exceed 200GB pretty much every month and I've only heard from them once. Of course I had 486GB that month
- tavisjohn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"But Only In Areas With Subpar Networks"
Well their whole system fit's that bill... lol - Antwan718, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4we all know its porn anyway
- LabThug, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Doubt it, I'm sure my home area of Charleston, SC will fall under the "lousy hardware" clause. They lost an entire wall of "networking stuff" (the best description issued by them) two years ago. I'm sure they used high quality replacements.
- Ratwiz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Try living in South Africa. Here, I have a 384k ADSL connection with a 5GB cap (including all uploads and downloads, local and international) that costs me the equivalent of $65 a month!!
I win :'( ! - mbthompson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Glad I'm near Philly, but regardless, Comcast sucks with crap like this and as soon as FiOS comes in, we're switching.
- matguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3For most people, I don't think the problem is that there is a limit, but that they'll disconnect you if you go over it twice, but won't publish it, nor tell you what it is even if you've gone over it. Also, they won't tell you how to monitoryour usage either.
- WillyWonka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Do you really need to ask?
- TheWeez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Guess your best off living in Minneapolis then because they have the most robust Comcast network in the country (because they were Time Warner). It's also why they're going to be the testing ground for DOCSIS 3.0 for the world. 150Mbit both ways. w00t!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3When I head my apartment complex allowed us to get satellite instead of going for comcast's monopoly, we gave them a call.... turns out, our building faces west, and the dish has to face the other way, so everyone on our side of the building is stuck with comcast D:
- cococooky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I wish i had 200GB, my limit is 12GB (Australian bush) then they slow me down to 64Kbps. for this privilege pay $35 p/m for first nine months. When that 9 months is up, I am swapping my ISP. I will pay $65 p/m for a whopping 48GB.
- uberkling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Only problem with Philadelphia being a good spot for download caps?
You'd have to live in Philadelphia. - archer75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Correct. It is a lag spike. And there are a million things it could be other than your ISP.
- jd230, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The Bay Area is screwed in most areas, but I live in the sticks. In Scotts Valley, if you are way out in the mountains like me, they don't even tune down the amps because the roads are too narrow and windy to take a bucket truck out here. My neighbor has been getting an average of 25mbps down/1.8mbps up for 2 years now with no cap. I just signed up with Comcast and am getting the same speeds. It's by far the fastest connection I have ever seen for residential or commercial. One of the many perks of not living in Silicon Valley anymore. I used to install Comcast HSI and saw people barely getting 928/128 on good days.
- archer75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Could be your computer. Could be a bad modem or router(I had a router that did that). Could be a bad hop somewhere. Could be a million things that have nothing to do with an ISP.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4That's a great flick
- musicpyrite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I posted this in the "90GB download cap" topic: I downloaded around 700GB in a 30-day period over the summer (yay usenet). Comcast didn't say *****. For reference, this was an area where Comcast had recently taken over Adelphia as the only cable internet provider in the area.
- archer75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I hope you don't mean Oregon because you are full of it. I've been downloading upwards of 300gb and uploading over 100gb with not a peep from comcast. Been doing it for months. My torrents work just fine.
- Yage2006, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The cable isp in my town started to impose a limit but they at least said what it was and gave you a tool on there services page to check how much you used.
Also instead of being nazi's like comcast and disabling your account they simply charge you 1$ per gb . With a maximum of 30$ if you go over that the rest is then free.
I can't understand comcast what they are doing does not even make economic sense for them . - NikZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Current pricing in New Zealand thru Telecom - NZD$60p/mth (USD$43.97 / AUD$51.45) for "unlimited speed" (ie: 7616kbps) down / 128kbps up, ADSL1 with a 10GB p/mth cap... INCLUDING uploads, with 64kbps throttling on overages.
The highest data cap available so far is 50GB p/mth for NZD$150 (USD$109.92 / AUD$128.62), + 2ยข p/MB overages.
That should make *anyone* (outside NZ) feel better. ;) - brada33928, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2when is this happening? :) do you have more information on this.
- apoc06, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2daily limit? check to see if people are leeching your wireless if you have a router and havent enabled security or if you didnt change your default router password.
- BRODEL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Again, the issue is not so much that there is a limit, but they hide the fact until you've gone over it.
- bradleyland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Waiting for someone else to do it first."
Corporate ***** at its finest. I understand that Comcast's bandwidth is a finite resource. I understand that users who use orders of magnitude more bandwidth than "average" impose upon those resources. What I don't understand is why they are even _allowed_ to advertise this service as "unlimited". Limited is fine. At least then I know what I've got and what to do if I need more! - Antwan718, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2good luck
- collectivescott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, then data caps won't matter but we'll all get cancer from excessive radio transmissions because people are hooked on unlimited porn. I can't wait.
- BRODEL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nope. Not for me.. I've looked for every alternative (except satellite)
I wouldn't consider where I live rural either. I am just too far from the substation I guess. A friend I work with lives out in the damn country and just happens to be close to one and that jerk gets FIOS! - altern8r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3With AT&T rolling out their U-Verse package here in California, they would be STUPID to limit their users. ATT offers fiber to house and at 75bucks for tv, internet and phone. im signing up. screw comcast!
- 40hands, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's none of anyone else business what he's downloading.
- Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're German, we know all about your filthy pornography habits.
- CPeanutG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Aparently Chicago has a real good network...
I was shut off a little over a week ago after having them call me from their abuse department. Called up and was told we transfered 460GB in one month.
Two major portions of that bandwith usage are legal uses. I signed up for Vongo and was downloading a bunch of movies to my computer. I also have been a long time subscriber to Napster and downloaded lots of songs from them during that month.
Does anyone know any postal addresses and email addresses I can send letters to? I will write anyone at Comcast and complain. Maybe even Napster and Vongo for advertising "unlimited" downloads. Whats the best way to go about this?
Vongo is something they advertise a lot on the cable channels "umlimited movies for $10 a month"... forgot to mention your ISP -might- not allow you to get a lot of movies. -
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