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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. Couldn't they at least provide a meter? by e9th · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to TFA, they won't notify if you approach the limit, and the only way to find out your current usage is to call them. Now that's handy.

    1. Re:Couldn't they at least provide a meter? by Itninja · · Score: 4, Informative

      If you use Comcast (at least directly), you have a meter:
      https://customer.comcast.com/Secure/UsageMeterDetail.aspx
      Not sure if EL allows that though.

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  2. So? by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just checked my Comcast usage. I practically live on the internet. Here's my usage:

    15 GB so far this month.

    17 GB for April

    22 GB for March

    15 GB for February

    On the list of things I'm going to spend the effort to care about, people who have trouble with a 250 GB cap is far enough down the list I'm afraid I'll never get around to it.

    1. Re:So? by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Informative

      A 250GB cap that will NEVER EVER get raised. It seems like a lot now but I can still remember buying a 90 MEGA byte hard drive for hundreds of dollars and being astonished by it's size. I copied ever disc I owned to it and declared I'd never need another drive. Comcasts limit is there for one very nasty reason. Soon we will stream HD strait to your home. This is a cap that will prevent you from watching that stream. That's why its there. To prevent you from having choice. They want to retain their monopoly.