Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 16, 2007 @10:35AM from the that's-some-customer-service-right-there dept.

Alien54 writes "Comcast has finally clarified what 'excessive use' is when it comes to their cable internet service. A customer is exceeding their use limit if they: download the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month. '[A Comcast spokesperson] said that Comcast's actions to cut ties with excessive users is a "great benefit to games and helps protect gamers and their game experience" due to their overuse of the network and thus "degrading the experience."'" Maybe they could put that limit in terms other than 'email' or 'songs'?

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Good! by Pendersempai · 2007-09-16 10:58 · Score: 1, Flamebait

650 GB/mo seems like a perfectly reasonable limit for a personal, residential internet subscription. I'm glad there's a limit on it; that means excessive users will have to pay for the strain they put on the network, so that those of us who use it normally can get better bandwidth at the same cost.