Posted: 8/29/2008 4:35:08 AM EDT
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 Well fuck I have comcast and my family loves online gaming. On top of my music/movie downloading habits among other things (sometimes 800+ songs a day) I could probably get past the cap 
I use more than 3GB of bandwidth in one night. (no not pron) 
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That's why these cronies have lasted as long as they have.
No kidding.............Im moving to an apartment next door and I swear .....when I called to get my service switched,I regretted not just sending a handwritten letter by snail mail instead  Woulda been quicker and less headaches. 
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I don't think that I've ever used 100G in a month. I don't have a problem with this. All those who are complaining about this being "liberal" need to realize that the existing model is more "communistic" as the grandma who uses less than a gig/month is subsidizing the warez dudez. A tiered or pay-as-you-go system (read: cell phones) is the most fair. |
That's just one cable company with that high of a limit. What about multiple users in the same household all playing online? LAN party? Who's to say they won't lower the limit again? Either way, bad policy, and people should take their money elsewhere. |
That's the only way this trend toward limited bandwidth usage will stop. |
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Thats the beauty of a free society though, you are free to choose whatever competitor to the company that you want. In the unlikely event you need over 250 gigs you won't select Comcast. |
For those of you who are Mac users, here's SurplusMeter 2.0.1 (Freeware).
And that beauty comes crashing down when multiple ISP's (after all, there aren't that many to choose from) start instituting the same policies. In my area, there is Comcast and then there is Verizon. That's it. If Verizon were to institute a bandwidth cap, everyone would be screwed. Oh, there's also lousy choices like AOL/dial-up... But those don't even count. |
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I grabbed ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter 1.1 so I can see just how much I use. It's free but I don't know if it's any good. Download.com |
Where I live there is no competitor for cable internet. Thus I will be screwed. 
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Yep. Ask any Philadelphia resident what other choice we have for cable TV or cable internet. Answer: none.  PS I'm on DSL because I hate Comcast.
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I do a bit of gaming and other activities that use a lot of cumulative bandwidth, Comcast used to have an "invisible cap" of about 90gb, if you pushed it you got ToSed. A 250 GB cap is a lot for the normal home user but for "power users" a limit like that, resulting in a disconnection is a real bitch, especially when the ISP doesn't provide you with a way to measure (what they see) as your monthly usage. Add in the fact they will will also throttle your connection speed down to dial up speeds if they sense that you are consuming high bandwidth for an undetermined period of time and your fucked. It's marketed as "unlimited Internet" but you cant use it. Similar to leasing a Ferrari that wont go over 55. |
I've been looking around to find some numbers, but I don't see any. I guarantee you that Second Life and similiar type places literally EAT bandwidth. |
Look at the bigger picture. Once one company gets away with it, the others will surely follow and then the limits will get lower. Then take all the bandwidth you use for surfing, downloading porn, games, video, YouTube, whatever, and then see where this is going. |