Comcast 250gb/m limit

[ChaoticMonk]

Looks like comcast is going to be setting a 250gig monthly limit come Oct 1st. http://www.broadbandreports.com/show...ctober-1-97294

[Crayonbox]

im on time warner and theyre testing a 40gig cap... yea.. that amoutn wont last me a week.

[Crayonbox]

I would like a monitor as well. Would like to see how close I get to that cap before this change of policy goes in. Will have to see if I need to look for a new isp provider.

[Anozireth]

All the more hilarious when you consider that the growth rate has actually slowed in the past year.

Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007 (this article is from today!)

They should be required to provide a way to monitor your usage, or this is incredibly unfair.

Edit: I'm going to make sure my next place can get FiOS.

[-silencer-]

Maybe if these capital-rapist companies would actually put their income toward upgrading network infrastructure instead of paying CEOs $20million+ bonuses, bandwidth wouldn't be an issue at all. But what do I know.. communication networks is one thing Europe is WAY ahead of North America.

[Skuggomann]

250GB is moar then enough a month. btwi got endless lololollolol

[merujo]

Most 5-boxers would hit something like 150 - 200gb a month playing 24/7.

huh?
lol

[ChaoticMonk]

The digital movie era is here - Netflix has a ton of them you can watch "online". You could burn through 250gb QUICK.

I believe thats why they are doing this. With IPTV around the corner and sites like netflix and fancast I can see alot of people dumping their cable TV packages and keeping their internet (or maybe even upgrading) so comcast would lose out big time. Limit everyone so they cant take full advantage of those services and force them to keep thier TV packages.

I think I'll stick with comcast alittle longer and see how it goes, might even give them a call come Oct 1st and ask to discontinue and I'm sure they'll offer me a 6month discount of some sort.

Do routers have a traffic monitor by anychance?

[ChaoticMonk]

/sigh
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/29...h-consumption/
Read.

"In short, you won't have to cut back on WoW to stay under a 750 GB per month cap." The '2' and '7' keys are not even near eachother, major typo lol

I wonder how those numbers will change when WOTLK hits with its new fancy gfx. Not to mention the constant traffic from everyone hitting the new areas at once, may very well be running at 30KBps down for the majority of your play time.

[Eteocles]

wtb copy/paste of article ;p