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Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy
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'?
Libraries of Congress...
Or British Libraries for Imperial.
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What's their problem? Why didn't Comcast use standard units?
Everybody knows data transfers are measured in LoC's - Libraries of Congress.
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I think it's kind of suspicious that they don't put the value in terms of number of Slashdot comments. I mean, you could get cut off right in the mid
With that crap I'd look for a new calculator.
For all the geeks, could we get a conversion to "quatloos"? It might help.
Let's see. At about 50 megabytes per song (I use lossless compression), that is 1,500,000 megabytes or 1,500GB per month limit. OK, so if I use only 1,000GB per month, I'm OK, right?
(am I the only one who has noticed that Comcast still has not given a hard limit, that the limit is still as vague as it has ever been?
Well there's an easy solution:
BitTorrent via SMTP!
Gotta use all that GMail space somehow...
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Knowing Comcast, you should probably assume the average song size to be about 300 KB.
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3MB per song $0.99 per song 53333 songs per 160GB iPod $52800 to fill 160GB iPod And your worried about your connection being cut off?
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One particular user of the internet didn't get the 13 million e-mail quota that they mentioned. After only ONE e-mail, his service was degraded significantly...
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OK, so you can only download 30 Kilosongs, 250 Kilopictures or 13 Megamails?
:-(
And I thought "Megapixels" were a salesman abomination.
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Are they also in the habit of writing several zeros and a decimal point for a whole integer?
Like FLAC?
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All my emails include 10meg attachments, so at 13 million, I guess I have roughly a 124TB limit. (maybe my math is bad, I dunno -- I never learned "emails" as a unit of measure).
I think I can live with that.
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Even stupider, they show just how far behind the times they are by measuring things in "emails, songs and pictures". Welcome to 1998, friends.
Seriously. They need to get with the times. Tell us how much that is in LoCs.
Yeah, that sounds legitimate.
Even stupider, they show just how far behind the times they are by measuring things in "emails, songs and pictures". Welcome to 1998, friends.
I prefer to have my bandwidth cap quoted in station wagons of DLT tapes per month...
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Yeah, you tell that to Switch and Apoc...
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Yeah, that sounds legitimate.
He could just be this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpmGB3CPVk