ComCast To Limit User's Bandwidth.

[KillJoy]

LINKY (http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/)

It was only a matter of time....


:(

KillJoy

[jdando]

From the Comcast site

"250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:

Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)"


I think if you are a normal user this is not an issue. If you are a spammer or some other sort of wack job you might bump into the limit.

Nothing to see here, carry on folks.

[BruteForce]

Its intended to stop people from running file servers on what is supposed to be a light duty consumer network. Like FTP (warez) or other file sharing (uTorrent etc) where there is nearly constant throughput.

It might actually be a good thing for normal users. Less congestion.

[baltimoremm]

+1^^
i have verizon wireless internet w/ a 50 gig limit per month and dont even come close to reaching my limit. i download alot of songs and a couple of movies a month. 250g is nothing to worry about.

[bob6364]

LOL from the link

250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:


Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)

62,500 songs wtf i don't thing many folks have a problem here

[rumble]

It might actually be a good thing for normal users. Less congestion.

Brute,
Do you have any concern that this might be "the nose of the Camel?"

We have seen telephone service go from very expensive years ago to dirt cheap now.
I hope we don't see the internet do the opposite.

[KillJoy]

The "limiting" of ANY service is JUST the beginning......

Think about it.....

KillJoy

[BruteForce]

Brute,
Do you have any concern that this might be "the nose of the Camel?"

We have seen telephone service go from very expensive years ago to dirt cheap now.
I hope we don't see the internet do the opposite.

I'm seeing a lot of talk about this. It's kind of related to the "net neutrality" issue whereas the providers want to be able to segment traffic and charge based on agreements which I read as increased costs to those who don't own their own wires. The actual cost of infrastructure now is maintenance & the constant upgrade cycle. They've already laid wires almost everywhere they can. But now, everyone has to replace all that wire with fiber and guess who gets to pay for it. Once they get close to having that done, it will be time to upgrade to the next new tech.

All that aside, as for-profit companies, they have to look for areas of revenue growth. Up to now growth has been provided by increased volume (more customers). At some point we hit stasis and then they will have to turn to increasing prices. I'm thinking this may be just a shortcut to this next level of revenue growth.

[BruteForce]

Then again... maybe not. :P

Broadband price war brews (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10030642-93.html)


...broadband operators saw a sharp decline in new subscriber growth in the second quarter of 2008. Twenty of the largest cable operators and phone companies in the U.S. only signed up about 887,000 new subscribers during the quarter, the lowest level of growth seen in the past seven years...

[Blackmobile]

Now lets not forget the new push for internet phone service. I'm quite sure it will have an effect on your bandwidth.

[MM03MOK]

Now lets not forget the new push for internet phone service. I'm quite sure it will have an effect on your bandwidth.
Nah, voice packets are small. Comcast Digital Voice is not internet phone.