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Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. 'This is the same system we have in place today,' Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. 'The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.' The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is "an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. ... As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage,' Comcast said Thursday. 'If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use,' according to the AUP."
Here in the Antipodes we pay $80/month for 20G.
Uphill. Both ways. In the snow. And we like it.
http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/internet/cable-broadband/plans.cfm
You can't download terabytes of pirated movies every day for free over someone else's lines? Oppression, I tell you. Oppression.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
I'm on Videotron in Canada, who's highest available cap for residential service is a combined upload/download of 100 GB/month. 10 Mbps connection for $64.90/month. They transitioned from true unlimited to 100 GB last year. So take your 250 GB and enjoy it, already!
Seriously though, you honestly can't expect more than 250 GB per month for residential service. Those of you arguing about Blu-ray transfers and GB of backup data, shut up. Get a goddamn commercial line if you're not an average consumer.
Complaining over a 250 GB cap is like complaining that you can't run a 20,000 machine data centre at home off the city's public electricity grid.
People in the US don't know how easy they have it. I'm living in New Zealand, and I'm paying 90$ NZD for a 1Mb connection and a 20GB cap.
I would give an arm and a leg to have a 250GB cap for the sort of prices Comcast customers pay. Thats more data than 99% of people could use in a month if they tried.
Welcome to a tiny taste of the rest of the world, America. Can you stomach it?
When you crawl out of your basement and see the real world for the first time since they stopped making you go to grade school, you will realize just how many people are out there, how many watch TV, and how many watch the same channel at the same time. At some point, you will come to realize how small the footprint of 500 broadcast channels is compared to what would be required for the millions of unicast channels.
Broadcast isn't just alive and well with a bright future, it is the only viable way to offer people the circus with their bread.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Oh please. Phone calls use something in the neighborhood of 20 kilobits per second of bandwidth. They are utterly insignificant consumers of network resources. Come back when you're not such a frickin moron.
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