Comcast To Institute Bandwidth Cap October 1
Remember Comcast mentioning they'd begin capping monthly downloads? Well, they're making it a reality for all residential customers starting October 1 of this year:
The cap, which will go into effect as of October 1, will be 250GB per month. Comcast justifies the decision by saying that it's "an extremely large amount of data," and that a very large majority of customers will never cross it.In fact, according to Comcast, this is actually the same policy that is already in place, except with more explicit numbers as to what is allowed and what isn't.
While 250GB/month is generous in comparison to the meagre 60GB/month proposed by other ISPs like Time Warner, it still doesn't address the fact that Comcast doesn't mention making improvements to their network at all as they announce this bandwidth cap. They seem to have every intention of limiting their customers, while at the same time not improving the service or planning for the future information infrastructure of the US.
I've said it time and time again, without a world-class broadband Internet infrastructure that can rival those of other developed nations, the US will continue to fall further and further behind the technological curve.
It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1 [Ars Technica]
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Posted to In Your House, In the News on 29 August 2008
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The biggest thing that you didn't point out, is they will warn you the first time you exceed the 250GB. The second time you exceed it, you're cut off for ONE YEAR!!!
The internet has become so ubiquitous, that this would be the same as your electric company cutting you off for a year if you exceed a capped limit of kilowatts each month. There's no recourse, no paying for extra GBs, and no Comcast provided meter to monitor your usage.
Sure 250GB seems a bit generous, but it is in no way consumer friendly with the penalty for exceeding it.
They may have to change their entire usage of "Broadband" as well since you tech. won't have complete freedom of usage anymore.