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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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duke8888
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26. September 2008 @ 13:49 |
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Originally posted by atomicxl:
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?
Comcast sends this to all of their customers explaining things (6 billion songs would take you into the next 2 years)
* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).
Here is the standard email going out.
On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect
at that time.
In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of
more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines
excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a
fraction of one percent of our customers uses such a disproportionate
amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online
experience of other customers.
250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very
likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that
amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than
the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3
GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one
month a customer would have to do any one of the following:
* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).
And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or
single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this
threshold over the course of a month.
For the 1% of users that take up all the bandwidth for the others, it is
time to have them re-evaluate their service with Comcast. For the
additional Bandwidth above the 250 GB allowed for residential needs, we
do offer a variety of small business service levels that they can pursue
to allow them the additional increase in bandwidth usage. Service rates
for business customers start comparably to rates for our residential
customer scales.
There are many online tools you can download and use to measure your
consumption. You can find such tools by simply doing a Web search - for
example, a search for "bandwidth meter" will provide some options. We do
remind customers using multiple PCs to please be aware that you will
need to measure and combine your total monthly usage in order to
identify the data usage for your entire account.
In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP
contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations,
newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please
visit
http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Freq...out-Excessive-U
se.
Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet
provider.
If you need further assistance, please feel free to respond directly to
this email. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us.
Thank you for choosing Comcast.
Sincerely,
Ron G.
Comcast Customer Care Specialist
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Aeikozz
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26. September 2008 @ 13:53 |
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wow....they want ya'll to look into small business packages?
>_< crazy
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26. September 2008 @ 16:24 |
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All I have to say is it is a good thing I am moving in about two weeks. I won't be getting Comcast again unless it is my only non-dial-up choice.
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26. September 2008 @ 21:04 |
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Those lying SOBs!
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tripplite
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26. September 2008 @ 22:55 |
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Quote:
Comcast sends this to all of their customers explaining things (6 billion songs would take you into the next 2 years)
they dont email me ever...only once to apologize for shutting down my cable for 28 hours....they didn't even think of refunding me:(
-tripplite
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27. September 2008 @ 01:40 |
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Originally posted by atomicxl:
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?
Heres some more math for gaming.
An adverage online game on a console takes up about 128kbps transfer speeds during game play. You are in game about 5/6 of the time and the lobby for demonstrations sake takes up a negligible amount of bandwidth.
1 Hour = 128kbps* 60 seconds* 60 minuites *(5/6) = approx 384000kb's or 384mb's
1 Day non-Stop = .384gb's* 24hours = 9.216gb's
1 month strait = 9.216gb's* 31days = 285.7gb's
But for realism sakes I'd say most gamers play around 4 hours a day so in a month a gamer would rack up:
384mb's* 4 hours* 31 days = 47.616gb's
So you'd still have 200gb's to go, so you should be fine but comcast saying the adverage user only uses 2.5gb's of bandwidth a month? Thats a massive load of crap when a gamer uses about 20 times that on gaming alone let alone steaming videos, torrents, or browsing. I used about 6-7gb's of bandwidth a month back when I had dial-up.
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27. September 2008 @ 15:18 |
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Originally posted by Aeikozz:
well my provider is DSL not Cable.
it's just like cable i even get a decent speed 5mb
I am not sure where you are, but my DSL is horrible, but I guess it is better than Comcast since they or so it seems that they have cut off all uploading via Bittorrent making seeding impossible for those on that network. I, have AT&T (DSL) and wondering if this will interfere with me ... Does anyone have any insight?
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mnibond
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14. October 2008 @ 00:31 |
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Well I just order DSL service, will be cancelling Comcast when my DSL service turn on. I guess they already studied the market, and they said only affect by .05 percent of user like us. But they will lost big market share in the future. Because I will get my mom, and brother switch to AT&T. even those they not heavy users. and AT&T offer $125. if you are a switching from other ISP. no 12 months contract require. FREE wireless router too.
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14. October 2008 @ 02:01 |
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Quote:
Heres some more math for gaming.
An adverage online game on a console takes up about 128kbps transfer speeds during game play. You are in game about 5/6 of the time and the lobby for demonstrations sake takes up a negligible amount of bandwidth.
1 Hour = 128kbps* 60 seconds* 60 minuites *(5/6) = approx 384000kb's or 384mb's
1 Day non-Stop = .384gb's* 24hours = 9.216gb's
1 month strait = 9.216gb's* 31days = 285.7gb's
But for realism sakes I'd say most gamers play around 4 hours a day so in a month a gamer would rack up:
384mb's* 4 hours* 31 days = 47.616gb's
there is no way thats right.
i would play 60hr a month and i dont go any where near my 10GB download limit.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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