Comcast limiting their bandwidth and people are complaining?

amanda · EVDO User Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 39

I keep hearing more and more about Comcast limiting bandwidth usage for their cable broadband to 250GB / month. People, of course, are complaining about this upcoming cap.

Am I missing something here? ...we are being limited in our usage to 5GB / month and they're complaining about being limited to 250GB?????

Isn't that 50 times more than we have? What do they have to complain about. What am I not getting here?

~~amanda

ebiz · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:04 am Post subject:

This is going to be the trend of the future as discussed by PC Magazine and DSLreports. Telus of Canada is simply canceling unlimited aircard accounts and offering to substitute 1 GB plans at $65/month. Frontier Online has implemented a 5 GB cap on its DSL service. Quest simply locks high users out and directs them to its website to read about its nebulous excess usage terms. and Time warner is testing various metered plans. In an article in PCMac.com, John C. Dvorak ended by saying "Although the exact mechanisms for metering are not yet developed, there is no way that the current all-you-can-eat model can continue much longer".

I imagine it will play out something like this.
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