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Earthlink Announces It Must Honor Comcast Cap

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-but-we're-honor-and-duty-bound dept.

LostCluster writes "For those in Comcast territory, a popular way to get around Comcast's 250 GB monthly cap was to sign up for EarthLink Powered by Comcast Service, where there was no cap. Forget about that.... Earthlink just posted an FAQ explaining that Comcast will enforce the cap against Earthlink customers starting July 1."

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  1. Re:Perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure what different perspective I'm supposed to take from your statement. That we should accept crappy limits because the UK does?

    Yes. Because if it is good enough for England it is good enough for you in whatever backwards, uncivilized non-England country your cave is in.

  2. Re:So? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awesome, thanks.

  3. Re:250 gb is a shit ton of data though.... by the_humeister · · Score: 2, Funny

    My connection is 150 kB/s on AT&T DSL. Honestly, I don't even need anything that fast. That was the slowest and cheapest thing I could get.

  4. Re:Perspective by mlts · · Score: 2, Funny

    2GB a month wouldn't handle my software updates, even if I used WSUS. Recently, my Mac slurped up a 300MB update, my Windows machines with their apps required a sizable amount of updates, my CentOS machine grabbed a large amount of updates. This alone would fill up a 2GB/month connection.

  5. Bandwidth is too expensive by lucm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe archive.org should start to offer its content on tape backup sent with Fedex. Might end up cheaper than my ISP.

    I can picture the ads: "Weekly internet: 7$, delivered with a smile".

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  6. Re:Perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a hovel! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! Hovel? Huh.

  7. Re:Perspective by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your comparison to the USA is perhaps closer to the truth than you'd like.
    California isn't a country.
    England isn't a country either.
    Neither is a sovereign state.

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