Comcast and bandwidth capping USA

[Chewy]

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/64358.html?wlc=1220393244

Today, we're announcing that beginning on Oct.1, 2008, we will amend our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) available at http://www.comcast.net/terms/use/ and establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/month per account for all residential customers

Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song);

or

Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie); or

4GB a day

[katzdvd]

I am stuck with Comcast here; someone needs to step in & set these guys straight. In addition to that new policy, folks in my area have simple web surfing/browsing issues that never seem to get resolved.

[doctorhardware]

That is main reason that I dumped Comcast. Their tech support and customer service, have no clue.

[katzdvd]

Their tech support and customer service, have no clue.

They know exactly what they are doing - they are trained to act that way...

Unfortunately, cable is my only (affordable) high speed option.

[drfsupercenter]

Comcrap, as I so affectionately call them, never appealed to me, since I'm almost constantly downloading stuff (I'm not at liberty to say what due to certain forum rules ) so their "speed boost" wouldn't do anything.

I actually know a few kids who are switching to Wide Open West (the ISP I have) because of this data usage cap. Since WOW is a small-area service, they'd never dream of limiting anything... since they don't have quite the demographic Comcast does. I used to think the occasional few-hour downtime was bad... but now I'm glad I don't have Comcast.