Comcast Cap of 250 Gigabyte: Is it enough?
Filed under: Broadband, Computers | By: Daniel
Posted on: August 31, 2008 | 10 Comments
With the future of the Internet looking like it will include a lot of data used by video streaming, you would think we would all need more bandwidth in our broadband package.
Comcast has put a cap of 250 gigabytes on their broadband service starting Oct. 1, and as they are one of the largest Internet providers in the U.S., what will happen now?
No one wants to find his or her Internet slow and this move is to stop excessive use and limit Internet consumption. Some broadband customers have been using many times what Comcast would like and this move is in direct response to that situation,
With this 250 gigabyte-a-month cap aimed at residential users, will it be enough for the average Comcast user? Let us know in the comments or read other Comcast news.
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This whole 250 gig limit. Is ridiculous. If they decided to cancel a person over going over that. So be it! I wouldn’t want their cable anymore if they are going to be asses over that anyways.
So, let me get this straight. Comcast is going to impose these crippling limits and not give its customers in this magical 1% any other package options? Can the FCC really allow this? When is Time Warner moving to the West Coast??????
.Let me break it down for people. I Have 4 computers in my house, one for me , one for my wife, one for my son and one for my daughter..now i use mine for sending and getting Cad key Files to company’s all over the world, avg file 5-20 gig files, I’m retired, and help my friends all over the world with electronics diagrams and new tech. review them and make changes, a simple bolt or screw for a TV or VCR or PC whatever could be as big as 1 gig, for cad key file, all specs of this one simple screw or bolt size, shape, threads etc, etc, now imagine a whole Plane or even a car or truck…I do this for friends and not for profit ..so I’m not included in buisness class, my wife now watches vonage or netflix movies HD 1080 size 5-20 gigs each for are plasma tv, listens too music or streams videos…my son ok here’s a movie horror buff that pays for his own movies and always on WOW god only knows how many gigs that is movies not the WOW but that’s one 24/7…….my daughter watches movies and gets songs she pays for from her babysitting money…..now if add everything up, I for one know our household is well over the 250gigs mark…..I would pay for anything extra above that like $10 for another 100gigs…but when I signed up and payed for more 6 years of comcast service that was suppose be unlimited, do I now have tell my wife my kids and my friends sorry but only have 30 minutes a day on internet cause comcast put a limit on our internet…usage?? I think I will call a lawyer and my congressman and my friend in FCC and start class action suit, 1) for false advertisement 2) for overcharging 4.5 million people last 8 years 3) putting monopoly on my internet, cause I don’t want another crappy ISP provider, and There is no other one around..
Signed
Very unhappy ComCast customer
With one fell swoop, Comcast sends us back to the dark ages! Forget watching instant movies on Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Video On Demand. Especially anything in High Definition. Forget Podcasts, streaming music and News. Forget Social Networking. Forget VPN. Forget online Gaming. Forget online satellite & weather forecast. Forget online contacts, calendar, email, synchronization. Forget online software updates and disk backup. In any combination one quickly becomes an “excessive” user. Lets remember, todays average users are tomorrows “excessive” users.
My question is, since Comcast has decided to limit our internet use, why not their cable television use? I’ll be damned if I ever use Comcast’s overpriced, and lousy ON DEMAND service.
I agrea with Kissjour, Im in the same spot and the first thing I thought of was class action.. They offered unlimited usage along with bells and whistles. They need to hold up their end of the deal.\
You have absolutely got to be joking me!
My high def tivo creates files of football and baseball games that run on average 22 gigs.
250 gig cap equals me downloading 13 football and baseball games from my tivo and that doesn’t even include the 100 megabyte newspaper I download every day from my newspaper company. I don’t know what planet comcast is living on or what century they think this is but these people have a serious problem here.
I’d like to mention that I don’t even use peer to peer programs.
Is there anywhere where we can file a class action lawsuit against these crooks?
I would also like to point out that I only have one pc and make mention of the fact that there is no place where you can go on comcast’s site to look and see how much bandwidth you have used in any given month. I think that if comcast is serious about enforcing a bandwidth cap they should at least have your usage posted somewhere so people can see where their usage stands but I still want to join a class action suit.
If I lived alone, that would be fine for me. But I live with 4 other people, and all 5 of us have computers and are very active on the internet. They should make the limit of 250 Gig for each computer in the household, for instance, 5 computers 1,250 gig, 2 computers 500 gig. Otherwise that it totally bull.
This should in no way be allowed.
Quote: “Some broadband customers have been using many times what Comcast would like and this move is in direct response to that situation.”
I am assuming that Comcast doesn’t want to pay to expand their already over-full networks, so instead they are just going to cap and throttle the internet, decreasing the quality that the consumer receives just so they don’t have to spend money to provide the service the the consumer pays for.
If they are going to set such a low limit on bandwith they should set a low limit on the internet bill; something like $15 would be appropriate in this situation.
You guys should try living in Australia where 25gb is a big cap.