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Here in Australia, my usage limit is 12GB a month. After that it's slowed to 64Kbps from 8Mbps. When we first signed up it was the 'Unlimited' plan becase you got slowed instead of being charged for exceeding your usage allowance. What a joke.

How can you complain about being limited!]]>Aug 29th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 29th 2008 10:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 30th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/
The worst part is that I'm moving to an apartment where my only option is Comcast, and I already called them to have it installed. Maybe I can get out of the package and get DSL installed instead, if just for the principle of the matter.]]>Aug 29th 2008 9:49PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/
The cheapest DSL connections are less than 0.75 Mbit/sec. If you are close enough to the CO, and willing to pay, you can usually get a 1 Mbps or 1.5 Mbps DSL connection. But it will probably run you more than a Comcast cable modem.

I've got some servers in a carrier-neutral colocation site and I got price quotes for bandwidth from a number of suppliers. The best was about $900/mo for 100 Mbps of bandwidth. That comes to $6.75 per month per 0.75 Mbps.

But that is not a fair comparison, since the "last mile" is by far the most expensive part for the cable and telecom companies. At the colo (which is sitting on a multiple-carrier nexus), there is no "last mile" so I can get bandwidth cheaply. At my home, I pay a lot more for bandwidth. No doubt some of the extra charge is due to less competition for bandwidth in my home, but I also have no doubt that a sizable chunk of the extra charge is due to the cost of installing and maintaining the last mile equipment. Just look at the cable companies' stocks, they are not making huge amounts of money for shareholders. They can't be gouging us that much.
]]>Aug 29th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 29th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/I have a big problem with this so far quite a few people have demonstrated that comcast is very dishonest or has very poor metering tools or both. They have a responsibility to their customers to provide detailed accounting if they are going institute a real and enforced cap. It’s not just a matter of customer service they need to be able to prove the numbers and to date they have done a really bad job of that and been inanely arbitrary.]]>Aug 30th 2008 12:09AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 30th 2008 4:50AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 29th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 30th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/
Couple this with a philosophy of over-subscriber the core network and the unwillingness to accept the video age of the Internet, and end users suffer. A cap of 250GB per month is no different from 25GB per month as the end result is to handcuff those downloading or streaming bandwidth-intensive content as the profitless hands of Comcrack.

And the telephone companies are no better. Maybe this will re-open the doors for municipal fiber as the only last-means to the ever-evolving Internet culture.]]>Aug 30th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/
What's even better is comcast announced a few months ago that they were going to offer 100mb/s internet service in 2009. Almost seems pointless with a 250GB cap.
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As mentioned above, you can forget about downloading HD quality movies without exceeding the 250 gig limit.

If Comcast is going to enforce the 250 gig limit then Comcast should also have a way that we [their customers] can monitor how many gigs we are actually using per month.]]>Aug 30th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Aug 31st 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Sep 3rd 2008 1:04AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Sep 2nd 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/29/comcast-set-to-begin-bandwidth-capping-come-october-1st/Sep 3rd 2008 1:04AM