Thread: Everyone who has Comcast - It's official!

The issue of there not being a bandwidth cap seems like an opinion, not a statement of fact. Now, if you had a contract that said there was no limit, then I tried to impose one you would be stating fact. The issue is that bandwidth costs money. The more you use the more Comcast has to pay for. Who do you think is going to pay for that? Why should Grandma Pearl who checks her email twice a day pay the same for Internet as someone who plays 4 hours a day of video games, and streams torrents 24/7?

Originally Posted by Latinman

Originally Posted by CivilWars

Just playing devil's advocate, but isn't that free enterprise? If we go to a restaurant, and you eat just a salad, but I get a salad, meal, and dessert who pays more?

When you buy a internet service there should not be a bandwidth cap there has been lots of controversy on the subject.. Comcast has the infrastructure they just are getting greedy.. but I dont care much anyhow b/c my cable internet is free

For those who haven't seen it yet, I got their Acceptable Use Policy email today...

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,

We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers' use of our service.

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 use 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.

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/...-Excessive-Use.

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