Comments on: Comcast 250GB throttling: live on October 1

By: smoker

smoker — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:48 +0000

FAIR USE POLICY …. and thats even not enough when you pay every month like a GOOD customer
Netherlands rules + some USENET free GB’s
+ weed lol

By: Johnnyg0

Johnnyg0 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:57:27 +0000

Now compare to the 20g limit for Videotron cable users

By: Reasonable Person

Reasonable Person — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:15:11 +0000

The time to act and rebel against this is now! Many of the opinions around the web seem to be that 250GB is plenty, so why complain? These people are overlooking a rather important point though. Yes, 250GB is quite a bit, particularly when compared to other countries such as the UK and (especially) Australia. But what about the future? When all the controversy has died down and consumers have come to accept paying the same price they were before for bandwidth that is no longer unlimited, that 250GB limit will in all likelihood shrink. Choosing such a large amount was no accident. It is a way for Comcast to get their foot in the metered bandwidth door and without a doubt other ISP’s will follow their example if they see this stunt (read: greedy money grab) as successful. Once that happens, unlimited bandwidth will be dead forever in the USA and the odds are favorable that the idea will eventually spread to other countries as well.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:01:28 +0000

This sort of sounds like the RIAA with their reasoning to the colleges. You didn’t mind it at first, what’s the problem now?

This year, 250 gb a month doesn’t sound bad. So the year after when more usage of mulitmedia files or some other replace, such as high definition, might change the whole balance out of whack then. So a few years down the road, “We gotta go to 30 gigs a month. You didn’t mind it at first with the initial limit, what’s the problem now?”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:34:37 +0000

So that’s 250gb up AND down, right? That really doesn’t sound like that much a month. Download a couple 4.7gb files and let your uploads go continuously at 100kB/sec, wonder how much that puts you at?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:19:33 +0000

250GB limit is ok as long as it is staggered for future speed increases e.g 8Mbs = 250GB, 16Mbs = 500GB and so on.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:22:54 +0000

Looks like Qwest has started as well. Time to switch providers.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:30:16 +0000

“I found a bug in the site”

I know about both of these, but I’d forgotten. Thanks for the reminder. I’ll pass it along.

Cheers!

By: Comeoncomcast

Comeoncomcast — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:24:04 +0000

ComCast and all these other ISPs make so much money! Why dont they just upgrade hardware? for the end user?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:39:07 +0000

Jon, it seems that I found a bug in the site:

Your “Previous Entries” link is pointing to http://www.p2pnet.net/page/2 , but rather should point to /page/1

And there are the stories that “disappear” before appearing on “Previous Entries”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:32:16 +0000

250 GB cap at Comcast > 200 GB cap at Teksavvy. And 200 GB cap at Teksavvy is virtually unlimited, you rarely can use it all.

Now compare this to ridiculous caps of 60 GB to be imposed by Bell to every DSL wholesaler next year.