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We will raise bandwidth caps if necessary, says Comcast
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 24 September, 2008
During an interview with Gigaom, Comcast spokesperson Charlie Douglas noted that although they feel the 250 GB bandwidth caps they will be starting next month are sufficient now, they are willing to raise the caps over time, if digital downloads or other innovations come around that need intense amounts of bandwidth.
For the time being, Douglas says, the caps are set at about 100 times ... [ read the full article ]
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5fdpfan
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24. September 2008 @ 20:43 |
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250 GB a month should be more than adequite for everyone. If not then you have a serious torrent addiction coupled with a lack of control or patience. If you'd stop constantly downloading bloated discographies, whole T.V Series and movie franchises, and instead leave the house every now and again and buy these at the store, this more than reasonable limit will no longer be a burden to you. If this scenario is simply to scary for you to imagine and you can't deal with it than start up your own ISP and web server and maybe that'll work better.
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tripplite
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24. September 2008 @ 21:04 |
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5fdpfan- thanks for making sense buddy, people who download in excess threaten the original concepts of torrents because if there downloading so much there is no was they can give back in the correct proportion.
HOWEVER the reason we hate the bandwidth cap isn't because of the actual limit, but because with comcast its a 250gb limit today, tomorrow its service available only between 2-3 in the morning, no joke sometimes comcasts turns off our cable entirely, for hours....oh and my phones run of the cable so f$ck you comcast
we pay over 100$ for cable that only runs on one tv, the other tv's are only allowed to get channels 1-78! WTF
and furthermore this HD is smoke'n mirrors, we dont get hd ony any channels for free, heck they barely offer it....oh and to access HD channels its an extra 30$ for the HD box, im common.....
i dont understand why cable company's are allowed to have such large monopolies.......
so you understand why a 250gb limit is a smack in the face>? for the amount im paying i should at least have my freaking privacy for Christs sake! if you dont want kiddy porn on the net go hang the russian's that film the crap, dont track/log all my usage!!
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varnull
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24. September 2008 @ 21:07 |
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Seriously.. get a T1 wire off savvis if you need more than 250 gigs eh?
Even so.. weights and measures regulation.. ISP's are still selling (advertising) unlimited.. then putting a "fair use" clause in.. BS.. I call shennagins.. you pay for a certain speed and amount.. they can't provide it?.. tough. sue their asses off for overtrading ;)
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1bonehead
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24. September 2008 @ 21:25 |
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What happens when we watch streaming HD. That will surely kill the 250 Gb cap
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24. September 2008 @ 21:27 |
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I use Comcast and I haven't gotten anything about a plan change... I guess we just have to move to another state if we don't like it.
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1bonehead
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24. September 2008 @ 21:30 |
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Originally posted by max777:
I use Comcast and I haven't gotten anything about a plan change... I guess we just have to move to another state if we don't like it.
kinda drastic you think ?
The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The IFPI Are: The same anti consumer lot as listed above!
The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX.
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warriorp
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24. September 2008 @ 23:07 |
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not at all....not at all......lol
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SSSJDanny
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24. September 2008 @ 23:45 |
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Originally posted by 5fdpfan:
250 GB a month should be more than adequite for everyone. If not then you have a serious torrent addiction
Hey! What if i have an addiction? lol
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25. September 2008 @ 00:18 |
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Anybody play WoW or any other, MMORPG 3 days of leaving WoW on reaches or exceeds the 250GB cap. Also i don't why the hell people think P2P or Torrents Equal piracy it doesn't. what it does equal is a threat to information control.
Torrents are a technological marvel, a huge step towards internet privacy. the idea was simple take i single file shred it into 1000 pieces and then send it on its way using 500 different computers.
i hate comcast, i jumped ship along time ago. They need a new plan, a new infrastructure and need to learn to put the money where it counts.
i comcast is a huge company, where the hell is all that revenue there generating going surly not back into the company. A 250GB cap is a temporary fix to a much greater problem. i would love to see this company gone from this planet forever.
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varnull
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25. September 2008 @ 00:23 |
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what they really need to do is modernise the infrastructure.. my cable was installed in 1991.. surely it's obsolete?
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25. September 2008 @ 00:26 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
what they really need to do is modernise the infrastructure.. my cable was installed in 1991.. surely it's obsolete?
Aye, that they do.
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25. September 2008 @ 00:37 |
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Ve vill decide when it is necessary!
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein ISP!
Comcast heil!
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25. September 2008 @ 00:54 |
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Originally posted by max777:
I use Comcast and I haven't gotten anything about a plan change... I guess we just have to move to another state if we don't like it.
While I haven't read over it they sent out an email with an "Updated User Agreement". I am sure its got something in there at least about them cutting you off if you go over the limit.
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25. September 2008 @ 03:27 |
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Considering that I get my cable bills 10 days before they are due, I'm sure I'll see something in the mail soon. I get an ad for Comcast's VOIP phone "unlimitted" long distance in the mail once a week. I guess it's not so unlimited either.
It is a slap in the face as someone stated above.
Personally I've been asking for higher upload speeds! This would allow us all to do so much more on the internet. Instead we get caps and bans! Less service, higher prices!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. September 2008 @ 03:31
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25. September 2008 @ 05:49 |
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you dont kno how good you have it
i have 2 pay $70 for 1.5mb, 10gb
and thats hard 2 stay under but i can normaly do it
im sure u can stay under 250gb
ps im from austraila
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harrydvd
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25. September 2008 @ 07:19 |
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You do NOT have to be a torrent ADDICT to be downloading 250GB a month. What if you happen to like downloading blu-ray movies - it only takes 5-10 of those to fill 250GB. Nowhere near overkill.
We live in the age of HD now, and more and more legit solutions are coming out which take up just as much bandwidth (and will only increasingly do so).
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jookycola
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25. September 2008 @ 10:47 |
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This cap affects legit users. don't let Comcast make it sound like averege users are you, me or the next guy. They're idea of an average user is a grandma that checks her e-mails every other day. and maybe books a flight off of expedia. Real average internet users Download music and/or movies off of iTunes, Watch streaming video on Netflix and YouTube, play MMPOG games either on XBOX Live!/PC/or Playstation network...maybe all 3. They read their news online, stream internet radio, visit forums, catch up on TV show episodes they missed on NBC/ABC/CBS/Fox's websites, and many download a few music and/or movie/TV torrents, and instant message.
And they do this monthly. 250gb is not even remotely acceptable to Average users. And a total rip-off to XBOX Live!, PSN, and Netflix users. As a matter of fact i'd say this is Comcasts way to monoplize the "watch it now" movie rental business. By using the cap you have no choice but to rent movies from their own pay-per-view system or take a chance of over stepping the band width cap.
Users need to file a class action lawsuit right now. This is unacceptable. They need to upgrade their infastructure and stop bleeding the customer with caps, limitations and high prices on outdated technology.
5fdpfan (Newbie) - a newbie huh? It figures. looks like Comcast is starting early with the moles and fake profiles to try and spin this as a good thing.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. September 2008 @ 10:49
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windsong
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25. September 2008 @ 17:46 |
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Originally posted by 5fdpfan:
250 GB a month should be more than adequite for everyone.
i.e. 640k should be enough for everyone.
Sharp as an orange.
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tripplite
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25. September 2008 @ 19:56 |
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Quote:
you dont kno how good you have it
i have 2 pay $70 for 1.5mb, 10gb
and thats hard 2 stay under but i can normaly do it
im sure u can stay under 250gb
ps im from austraila
we sound like spoiled children dont we?? lol
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25. September 2008 @ 20:23 |
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Quote:
Quote:
you dont kno how good you have it
i have 2 pay $70 for 1.5mb, 10gb
and thats hard 2 stay under but i can normaly do it
im sure u can stay under 250gb
ps im from austraila
we sound like spoiled children dont we?? lol
id say lol
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atomicxl
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26. September 2008 @ 02:22 |
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I have major doubts that online gaming takes up anywhere near the bandwidth you guys are talking about. XBL isn't sending a gig an hour over the internet.
250gb... thats like the regular person downloading 6 billion songs in a month or downloading 50 movies. Thats not realistic. You guys have to be joking if you're seriously trying to suggest that the typical person uses bandwidth like that.
Do a quick test. Reboot your computer and double click the network icon after you've left it on for 24 hours. That number is a rough way of seeing what you use in a 24 hour period. And its in bytes so you have to divide it by 1073741824 (1024 ^ 3...1024 bytes = 1kb, 1024 kb = 1mb, 1024mb = 1gb) to get it in gigabytes.
Assuming its a 30 day month, you'd need to be moving 8.34 gb a day. Where are you at?
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26. September 2008 @ 02:35 |
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Just to mess with the aussie, last month I downloaded just under 1TB.
I signed up for unlimited internet access a few years back and I won't be allowing my ISP to go and renegotiate terms on that. I paid for unlimited and I'll be getting unlimited. Sounds to me like some comcast users need to get together in a reasonably large area and protest. Something like everyone calling and threatening to cancel on a set date. This will cause a massive drop in productivity at wherever comcast outsources their tech support/billing to. Having previously worked for verizon dsl, I know one angry mob of customers or something as simple as an outage can get nearly anything done quite quickly. Verizon had to pay my company for each minute we were on those phones, so instead of trying to help people we tried to get them off the line. Imagine the day they have to pay 10 to 20 times their usual per day rates to such a company, and watch the world burn.
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Aeikozz
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26. September 2008 @ 07:33 |
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Originally posted by atomicxl:
Do a quick test. Reboot your computer and double click the network icon after you've left it on for 24 hours. That number is a rough way of seeing what you use in a 24 hour period. And its in bytes so you have to divide it by 1073741824 (1024 ^ 3...1024 bytes = 1kb, 1024 kb = 1mb, 1024mb = 1gb) to get it in gigabytes.
Assuming its a 30 day month, you'd need to be moving 8.34 gb a day. Where are you at?
i totally forgot about that I'd been trying to figure out how much i kill off. OK it says 5.34GB sent and 8.75GB received and it's been up for 48 hours .... 80GB sent monthly...131GB received that puts me at around 211 GB total.
That's awfully close to that 250GB cap. I'm pretty sure my 360 probably would kill off the rest of that.
thank god i don't have comcast.
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26. September 2008 @ 10:11 |
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Originally posted by Aeikozz:
Originally posted by atomicxl:
thank god i don't have comcast.
Yet.
Yesterday, WaMu customers thought they'd never be Chase customers.
Now they are.
And even if Commiecast doesn't buy up your local monopoly, how long before other ISPs see that they can get away with anything and they all start doing it?
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Aeikozz
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26. September 2008 @ 10:16 |
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well my provider is DSL not Cable.
it's just like cable i even get a decent speed 5mb
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