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Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. The obvious units by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Libraries of Congress...

    Or British Libraries for Imperial.

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    1. Re:The obvious units by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

      Libraries of Congress

      No, no. It's Libraries of Congress per fortnight.

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  2. Abuse Definition v2 by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Abuse Definition v2 by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 5, Funny

      in short, the LOC is MASSIVE

      That's why we have standard S.I. prefixes. They're allowing around 400 microLOC per fortnight.

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  3. Limited downloads by teidou · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:Limited downloads by Incadenza · · Score: 4, Funny

      That sure would be a

    2. Re:Limited downloads by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now stop that! How are we supposed

    3. Re:Limited downloads by Enlightenment · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you took the joke too f

    4. Re:Limited downloads by Bender+Unit+22 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, they did, but it is a luxury problem. I am on a dialup, So I don't have to deal with that, since there is no chance I will hit t "]5d[7d£4±A"2@ NO CARRIER

    5. Re:Limited downloads by Scannerman · · Score: 3, Funny

      How many more of these till it starts getting funny ag

  4. A unit we can understand? by A10Mechanic · · Score: 3, Funny

    For all the geeks, could we get a conversion to "quatloos"? It might help.

  5. 13 million emails in a month, eh? by AnonymousDivinity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well there's an easy solution:
    BitTorrent via SMTP!

    Gotta use all that GMail space somehow...

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  6. Re:So filling a 160GB iPod in 1Month = BANNED by gravos · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. New terms coined? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  8. Re:They still don't give the exact byte downloadli by ResidntGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like FLAC?

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  9. 13 million emails? OK! by discogravy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  10. Re:They still don't give the exact byte downloadli by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ... do ~150gb of usenet each month for some time now

    Yeah, that sounds legitimate.

  11. Re:lets do the math! by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  12. Re:lets do the math! by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer to have my bandwidth cap quoted in station wagons of DLT tapes per month...
    You get all the data that'll fit in the passenger door map-pocket.
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  13. Re:It is not as bad as you think... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, you tell that to Switch and Apoc...

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