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Comcast - 250GB Limit


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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Oct 17 2008 08:52 pm Reply with quote Back to top

As of October 1 residential customers of Comcast have a 250GB limit on network traffic.

http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/



 
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Mr. Bomberman
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PostPosted: Oct 17 2008 09:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Fuckins stupid. Thank we don't have Comcast in NYC.

We have limits? Is this 1994 again?


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 04:59 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I am quite scared as to how this will effect me. I am on router that three computers, a Wii, and a cellphone regularly connect to.

It's forced me to stay off P2P, which fucking pisses me off.

The limit should be 310 GB at least per month. I would consider 10 GB per day to be fairly reasonable.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 06:42 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
I am quite scared as to how this will effect me. I am on router that three computers, a Wii, and a cellphone regularly connect to.

It's forced me to stay off P2P, which fucking pisses me off.

The limit should be 310 GB at least per month. I would consider 10 GB per day to be fairly reasonable.


What pisses me off the most is that they don't give you a monitor.

You have no way to see how much you are actively downloading.

Also, to me, web content should be unlimited. Everything over HTTP or FTP should be 100% open.



 
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Tyop
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Joined: May 04 2008
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 07:46 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Don't most routers have a counter for your uploads and downloads? I know mine does. I'm currently at 57329 MB this month, so I could live with a 250 GB cap. I don't share my connection with anybody else however and I very rarely use P2P.



 
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Knyte
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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 12:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I agree that if Comcast is going to limit us, then they need to have a meter we can check to know how close we are to our limit.
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 12:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yeah, the lack of a meter is my only complaint. I sometimes leave my computer running for a few days with P2P programs on, so occasionally it might be a problem.
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FNJ
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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 03:31 pm Reply with quote Back to top

that's terrible.

I torrent like a motherfucker.

I don't ahve comcast, but it's stil lterrible. I feel for you people. I hope it doesn't happen over by me.


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GPFontaine
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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 03:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

FNJ wrote:
that's terrible.

I torrent like a motherfucker.

I don't ahve comcast, but it's stil lterrible. I feel for you people. I hope it doesn't happen over by me.


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 03:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yeah, torrents aren't really an option for me anymore. Most sites ban you if your ratio gets really bad, but I'm forced to set my upload rate to zero because I can't afford to be wasting my GB on uploads.
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