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bandwidth limits
http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/
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t's no secret we've been evaluating a specific monthly data usage or bandwidth threshold for our Comcast High-Speed Internet residential customers for some time. Rumors circulated online last year and they popped up again in May.
In January, we added new frequently asked questions about what we consider acceptable use of our service to our online Help site www.comcast.net/help and Security Channel page www.comcast.net/security.
We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we provide a specific threshold for data usage and this would help them understand the amount of usage that would qualify as excessive. Today, we're announcing that beginning on October 1, 2008, we will amend our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) available at http://www.comcast.net/terms/use/ and establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/month per account for all residential customers.
250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:
* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
This is the same system we have in place today. The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted. 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. 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. At that time, we'll tell them exactly how much data per month they had used. We know from experience the vast majority of customers we ask to curb usage do so voluntarily.
As stated above the new monthly data usage threshold will officially take effect starting October 1st. We are notifying customers in a number of ways. For example, we have posted a preview of the amended AUP as a PDF on this page. We are also running banner notices on our Comcast.net home page and on our Security Channel Web page to alert customers about this upcoming change. In addition, we have provided a number of FAQs that are available at http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/...-Excessive-Use. Finally, we will also notify our customers directly by including an insert (also called a bill stuffer) in an upcoming monthly billing statement.
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bandwidth limits
How does that work for online games?
I go through 250 gbs of porn a week.
<~~~~ The geek zone is this way.
I love how they said they are doing it for the people.
now that bangbros pass is coming in handier than ever.
now ironmexican is a dork. we know this.
Kill Bill Pana, your thoughts on this development?
Weren't they one of the last ones to offer unlimited?
lol yalll need a life if you are worried about using up 250 ing gigabites per month lol
yar.
That doesn't sound Comcastic at all...
That's what I want to know, with 2 PS3 and 2 Xbox 360 and all hook up online in my house plus we all rent the movies they have to offer on those systems and 2 pc and 1 laptop how fast would that add up.
I also have TWC highest (cost more) Internet service, what's the point of faster speeds if it just helps me reach a cap faster.
Beat me to the punch with that one.
the packet data sent and received from gaming is minimal. So minimal in fact you could probably have all of your systems online in a game 24/7 for the whole month and I would be surprised if you broke 10gb
It's a good thing I don't use Comcast.
Right now my cheesy time Warner is coming in at 64 kbs it would take me six months to use up 250 gbs.
Thank you, phyzik.
I'm surprised its so high...I was worried about 50 or so a month. It does seem like they're going after a handful of people but I imagine they will slowly start chipping it down.
Time-Warner is doing the same thing in Beaumont right now. It wont be long before they roll this out in San Antonio. Right now during afternoons my Road Runner cuts in and out. I called in and they told me to turn off the modem unhook the cable and touch the cable terminal and the modem at the same time. I'm sure they got a big laugh out of that when I told them I did what he said. He said static builds up in the lines.
At least he didn't tell me to flush the toilet 3 times spin around three times and click my heels.
How did I know this one was coming?
Actually, they weren't lying to you. I used to work for TWC. They actually have a piece of software that connects to your modem/cable box and reports all kinds of information including signal strength and degredation. They can even tell what channel you have the cable box tunned to.Time-Warner is doing the same thing in Beaumont right now. It wont be long before they roll this out in San Antonio. Right now during afternoons my Road Runner cuts in and out. I called in and they told me to turn off the modem unhook the cable and touch the cable terminal and the modem at the same time. I'm sure they got a big laugh out of that when I told them I did what he said. He said static builds up in the lines.
At least he didn't tell me to flush the toilet 3 times spin around three times and click my heels.
Static buildup does happen on cable lines especially if they are old and might have exposed sections, I've actually been zapped (just a small static charge) while doing what they had you do on my own cable modem.
if you continue to have a problem with it ask them if they can reflash it with the latest firmware. They will have to go to their lvl 2 support and put you on hold to have someone do it but it can be done quite easily. failing that, take the er in and trade it out!
I assume everyone here knows Fios brutally dominates the internet provider business in terms of quality. As a matter of fact that's why the limits were installed:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/...st_orders.html
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