Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October 939
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. 'This is the same system we have in place today,' Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. 'The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.' The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is "an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. ... As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage,' Comcast said Thursday. 'If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use,' according to the AUP."
So much for unlimited internet (Score:5, Funny)
Anybody know of a good webhost? (Score:2, Funny)
250 GB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:250 GB (Score:5, Funny)
Comcast Bandwidth Cap Hits October 1? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, looks like all my porn for the next 6 months is getting downloaded in September.
Re:About Time (Score:4, Funny)
400gb? What are you downloading, the entire bible word by word in 1280x1024 bmp format?
Confucius say (Score:1, Funny)
Confucius say "Cable companies always follow their essential nature. Man who pay for cable internet cannot complain when cable shoved up his ass. "
The swine ! (Score:5, Funny)
How can I possibly make it through a month at 250 G? I, um, have a condition, yeah, that's it, that requires I download unlimited amounts of data from the internet. This is cause an undue hardship. As if comcast has the RIGHT to take this from me. If my connection weren't actually my neighbors, I'd SUE THEIR ASSES pronto!
So what shall I do Slashdot? How can I get my umlimited back? Get a bigger Wifi antenna? I heard about that but what about bandwidth?
Re:250 GB (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Only 250G? You poor oppressed dears (Score:3, Funny)
Australians and New Zealanders seem to be the only people on the planet who think that the entire world's internet connections should be as bad as theirs. Why is that?
Re:What about ads? How about SPAM?? (Score:3, Funny)
everytime you connect comcast will automatically send you a 13gb highdef movie explaining the bandwidth cap.
Re:$150 a month isn't so bad, really (Score:2, Funny)
Much as I hate it, I'd rather spend the money on a Comcast Business connection than worry about whether or not I'm getting close to some artificial cap.
Apparently Comcast made quite the shrewd business move just now.
Re:So much for unlimited internet (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Boiling a Lobster (Score:3, Funny)
Er, yeah. A lobster'd be the exact opposite of the point I was trying to make, huh?
Re:So much for unlimited internet (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to pretend that you don't mean that. It would otherwise hurt me inside.
Re:Great sentiment... (Score:3, Funny)
We supply the money Comcast demands?
Re:250 GB (Score:1, Funny)
Every girlfriend, fiancee and wife I've ever had...
So, no one.
Re:So much for unlimited internet (Score:3, Funny)
And that's assuming that you take summer off and a couple weeks in the winter!
That extra 100 days gives them enough time to finish unloading that internet dump truck...
Re:99KBps (Score:3, Funny)
I think it's funny how different everyone's numbers are. I don't really want to scroll back up and list them all, but I've seen figures ranging between 70Kbps and 1.2Mbps... I must say I'm baffled.
Re:So much for unlimited internet (Score:2, Funny)
of course you can check your e-mail through the plumbing system:
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Re:The swine ! (Score:3, Funny)