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Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit

Posted by timothy on from the there's-always-dialup-oh-wait dept.

techmuse writes "Comcast is considering the imposition of bandwidth caps and reductions in network bandwidth to customers who, while paying for the use of a certain amount of bandwidth, dare to actually use it! Gizmodo has more on the subject." Reader Acererak points out that it would take some pretty heavy usage (by current standards) to hit the cap described. Bear in mind, too, that these reports are based on the word of an unnamed "insider," rather than an officially announced policy.

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  1. Bill Gatesism... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    250GB ought to be enough for anybody.

  2. Open Wifi by fsulawndart · · Score: 5, Funny

    My neighbors are going to be pissed when they see their next comcast bill!

  3. Re:Comcaast usage policy: Pay more, get less by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    blah blah blah, milk this, milk that.

    250GB ~= 800Kbit every second of every day for 31 days.

    Some people need to step away from the computer and drop this knee jerking insanity. But I pay for 7Mbit, Waaah, waah waaah! I want my 2 TERABytes per month! And I can't afford to pay any more because i have to buy 5 hard drives every month just to store all crap I download!