Comcast Caps Internet Usage

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  1. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Comcast has announced it will cap its highspeed internet service at 250gb/month. It claims this will affect only a small portion of its users, and I'm sure that's true. Right now. But as time goes on, this could be a problem.
     
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  3. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    That works out a constant stream of about 93Kbits per second. This of course is total bandwidth, not identifying if the Cap is effected by Both uploading and downloading. (If that was the case, some of that transfer total would be used communicating with a server to stay in sync)

    250gb is approx 62 x 4Gb Movies (HD) so you'd have to be downloading a heck of a lot to even remotely get near that cap. Of course if you do hit a cap you usually end up with hidden clandestine charges appearing on your account, so you won't suddenly get stopped from downloading, just charged more.
     
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  5. Xelios We're setting you adrift idiot Registered Senior Member

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    Think of it as an introductory rate. It's a perfectly reasonable cap, but I'm betting either the price for this service will go up, or that cap will come down. Not now, but maybe next year.

    This does have 2 positive effects though. It (should) make it illegal for them to advertise their service as 'unlimited' (which it never was to begin with), and it gives anyone who's unsatisfied with Comcast's service to date a 'get out of contract free' card, since Comcast has changed the terms of the agreement.
     
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  7. Learned Hand Registered Senior Member

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    Nah. The license agreement takes care of that (which it seems nobody but lawyers take seriously). As a condition precedent to your use and purchase of the service, Comcast (as well as others) are permitted to make certain changes to its agreement willy nilly. Capping monthly bandwidth or stream is one of them.
     
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