Comcast Usage Cap Fallout - FrugalTech

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Beginning October 1, Comcast will begin throttling residential internet usage to 250 Gigs per month. The end of all you can eat broadband appears to be near. What are your thoughts? Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[dannee0j]

just don't understand what all these people need these gosh darned auto-mo-biles for... hell mah old donkey does just fine and what is just fine for me, should gosh darned be more than fine for all them other folks out there... 15mph is EXTREMELY fast and If you need to go faster you must be up to no good.

[FrugalTech]

Sure you don't work for Comcast? Just kidding, thanks for the post!

[Elvisman2001]

this is a HORRIBLE decision by Comcast. My wife is originally from Ukraine. We subscribe to an online service where she can stream Russian movies through her computer. Nothing illegal about it. She uses EASILY 3 gigabytes a day on weekends of bandwidth. Then I have my 13 year old who uses the internet, plus me and i think we will hit that limit pretty easily. I hope they (somehow) lose a lot of customers because of this. If they hit me with a warning, I will switch to DSL or something.

[FrugalTech]

Thanks for your comments!

[LLostSoul1976]

There is no cap if you have 3 tv's on a comcast HD channel 24 hours a day. They don't cap tv so why cap internet.

[rysliv]

capping, never decreases bandwidth. ITs not going to change the infrastructures internet bandwidth that goes through per day. besides that their infrastructure is old, and we should be getting about 100 to 1000mbits download AND upload like sweden telia

[afro20man]

@dannee0j Great analogy

[MrYoubrian]

What you really mean is that the sky is not falling for you. For the rest of us it is money out of our pockets.

Just like health care. It was "no big deal " to people who had it.

[MrYoubrian]

Digis.net!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 60 GB cap per month 3GB cap per day.

They throttled me back to .51mbps until next month.

AND oh yea! I do not have access to my website that I created for MY business. My customers cannot reach it either. Web.om says they WISH it was their fault because they could fix it right away. But it is not them---it is Comcast and AT&T who deceided to limit access to the website that I own.

I will take Monday off to try and fix it. Web.com has 20 million customers.

[MrSchmendrick]

For all the people who say Comcast ISN'T looking into the future, Comcast IS looking into the future, and that is why they have put this cap in place.

Voice over IP has destroyed the home telephone marketplace, and television over IP threatens to do the same to cable television. As a cable company, Comcast's cap is there to prevent a provider such as Vonage or Netflix from offering a viable television over IP solution, thereby keeping their monopoly cable status.

[comcastisbad]

Comcast does suck, they won't provide me a quality service.. Watch my video on how my service drops out constantly.

[llx2o1]

i prob reached 100gb of usage and they kicked me off... pretty BS since they can't even proof or give you an average of your usage.

[rdavian]

in the end the dollars talk the most enough people will eventualy switvh to a provider that gives them what they want. comcast will either conform or die that simple. the power is in the consumer not the corp!

[TheDystopiaInside]

If you ask me, the people downloading hundreds of gigs a month are just taking up slack for many people who they claim use "only 1-5GB a month."

Those people are essentially UNDER using the service. Furthermore, as you say, more people will be using more bandwidth in the future, not less.

I use Net Meter to keep an eye on how much I use, but I still find this whole thing to be a way to punish people who use the service for more than they want you to use it.