Comcast BS

[neoee]

You guys hear about this?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/reporting/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210201500

If they tell me to curb my use I'm switching.

[beanzncheez]

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Wow. That's some horsehit. I rejoiced the day they gave up and turned over the local market to TimeWarner. I have faster speeds and my bill is much lower. Comcast Nazis.

[Simon Preston]

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250GB limit?
You guys should try living in the UK.

[FM]

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true...there are several other ISP's in the US and overseas that give you at best a few GB's/month (and that's upload AND download combined).

I don't use 250 but I don't like this idea either...first traffic shaping for BitTorrent et Al, and now this.

Luckily, DSL is now in my area...bit slower, but half the price and I can get 6 months free. Let's see what the cable company can do to match that when I decide to cancel

[palmer]

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250gb is A LOT but that doesn't make this right.

[Huggie Smiles]

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is the 250 limit up and down? (for comcast)

[rbuffetta]

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Little OT but I never knew this about Comcast

"Comcast sues FCC, wants P2P throttling order overturned"

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-comcast-sues-fcc-wants-p2p-throttling-order-overturned.html

[res0nat0r]

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I think it is 250GB TOTAL per month. Up and down. I download more than most but I don't think I ever get near that much. You have to be downloading like 20 DVD's a month and a ton of games to hit that which is excessive anyway.

[beanzncheez]

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It shouldn't be limited and 250GB a month isn't that hard to hit for many people.

[res0nat0r]

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I agree limits suck, but how much porn does one need per month?

[beanzncheez]

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I haven't downloaded porn in a damn long time. It's music for me and 250GB of music a month is pretty easy to do when you have varied tastes.

[res0nat0r]

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Damn...And I thought I had alot of mp3's

[FM]

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based on the Comcast PR when it mentiones "sending" and "uploading" photos and emails, sounds like 250/month total.

[res0nat0r]

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got my email about this from comcast this weekend.

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,

We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers' use of our service.

On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time.

In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers.

250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following:

* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).

And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month.

In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Excessive-Use.

Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.

[Huggie Smiles]

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and then they will not even let you monitor your usage.
so if you get close they just bam you with fees.