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'?

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Song of 4:10 times 128 kbps = 4 MB

[tepples]

"the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month." Ok, why did they not actually give you an actual # of bytes that the Internet connection would have to download through Comcast's Internet service before it is cut off? As far as I can guess, a "song" is 4 MB, enough for 4 minutes and 10 seconds of audio at the typical lossy data rate of 128 kilobits per second.

What the?

[Anonymous Freak]

the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month

Let's see. I rip my songs in reasonably high quality, so 30,000 songs for me would be 300 Gigs. I take high quality uncompressed photos, so 250,000 pictures would be 2.5 Terabytes. But I apparently get really small emails, so 13 million emails would only be 200 Gigs.

I'll take the 2.5 Terabyte number, thank you very much.

Wow., that's a lot

[webrunner]

An email can be as big as around 10 mb..
10mb * 13 million emails, is 130 million megabytes. Which is about 127 thousand gigabytes.. or 127 terabytes, per month!

Works for me!

C'mon people

[Floritard]

I don't see what the big deal is here. Assuming ~20 megs average for a FLAC file, 30,000 songs comes out to just under 600 gigs. That should be plenty for anyone!

Sweet, my songs are all 320s

[Tweekster]

at 20+ megs a track.