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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."
Looks like I got fios just in time
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Time to find a new home for my Pr0n server. :(
...should be enough for anybody.
Well, looks like all my porn for the next 6 months is getting downloaded in September.
400gb? What are you downloading, the entire bible word by word in 1280x1024 bmp format?
Confucius say "Cable companies always follow their essential nature. Man who pay for cable internet cannot complain when cable shoved up his ass. "
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
How can I possibly make it through a month at 250 G? I, um, have a condition, yeah, that's it, that requires I download unlimited amounts of data from the internet. This is cause an undue hardship. As if comcast has the RIGHT to take this from me. If my connection weren't actually my neighbors, I'd SUE THEIR ASSES pronto!
So what shall I do Slashdot? How can I get my umlimited back? Get a bigger Wifi antenna? I heard about that but what about bandwidth?
Australians and New Zealanders seem to be the only people on the planet who think that the entire world's internet connections should be as bad as theirs. Why is that?
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
everytime you connect comcast will automatically send you a 13gb highdef movie explaining the bandwidth cap.
Much as I hate it, I'd rather spend the money on a Comcast Business connection than worry about whether or not I'm getting close to some artificial cap.
Apparently Comcast made quite the shrewd business move just now.
Er, yeah. A lobster'd be the exact opposite of the point I was trying to make, huh?
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We supply the money Comcast demands?
Now everybody's equal, just don't measure it. -Bad Religion
I think it's funny how different everyone's numbers are. I don't really want to scroll back up and list them all, but I've seen figures ranging between 70Kbps and 1.2Mbps... I must say I'm baffled.