Well today is the day.. I start getting limited!

[Tasty]

Yeah.. alright.. this rocks... can't wait to see what happens.. are words that will not be coming out of my mouth... Today Oct 1st Comcast is now limiting me to 250GBs a month.. Yeah sounds like alot.. but when I download that in a week.. well it sucks... I canceled my Giganews and other monlthly subscription, they asked why..

I stated..
(other)
I can no longer afford the use of you unlimited service while Comcast will only allow me 250GBs a month. I've been with your service for over two years now and have love the quality of your content that you have provided, but I'm afraid Ill have to say good bye for good.

By the way its not (porn) I don't pay for that.. So anyways the last time I have had limited internet bandwidth was... ohh thats right never.. What are back in the 56k dial up days again..? Is conjecstion so bad that you have to limit what we do.. when for years you just took in the money and didn't feel the need to upgrade your lines to cope with the explosion in popularity of the Internet.. or was the Internet just a fad..? Why are we behind a generation in bandwidth while Japan and other Asin countries are starting to roll out 20MBs lines to its consumers... Yet we still sit in the 1-12MBs range... and now are stating we can only use so much a month..!?! Once I can get Verizon or At&t out to fix my phone line to my house.. I will be getting rid of your crappy service.. My rant is over... :cursing:

I used up 10gb of my 25gb plan on the first day of getting uncapped so I imagine it would be easy enough to use up 250gb.

[Zite83]

I guess to say I am putting up to much of an "OMG" Im just mad cause I can't suck the life out of my Internet connection like I've been doing for sooo many years... :P You just get use to a life style.. and I like my life style.. Maybe I could only download the stuff I really need :thumbsup: '

I would switch, but Verizon wants to charge me to reinstall my phone line to my house which got knocked down by a storm a year back.. and I just always say to them.. Want my business..? Then do it for free and you have a consumer for life.. But I guess my life's money isn't worth much to them...

[Bradster]

Something to think about, there’s normally 4-6 sharing a house around here (college kids). That could potentially be an issue. If it's just "1%" why limit it? Why not target out of that 1% the issues they have with those heavy torrent users, oh that's right they tried and found it wasn't their place to play god with the internet.

I'm not really concerned the least bit about the limit if I even have one, as I know I don't download enough to reach it. But you have to stop and think, what’s next? Why?“Because we don’t like it”. That’s control, necessary? I can’t answer that question because I do not see the effects of the changes other then the fact it’s a company principle being forced on to the consumer.That's the part i'm uncool with.

If it was said, "We had to do this for reasons a,b,c this would improve you service because of x,y,z" with some data, at least that would of looked better. But at this point we would know the real truth anyway giving recent history it was a given.

[ObesAU]

I am sorry but I can't help but laugh at this thread.

I am on the largest plan offered by my ISP in Australia (and its no longer even offered) and its 70aud (about 50usd) for 20gig on peak and 40g off peak a month. Alot of our plans don't have download limits, they have transfer (upload and download combined) limits.

The unlimited DSL at work costs us around 2grand (1600usd) a month.

Not to mention I am not sure how on earth you could find 250gb of legal and worthwhile things to download every month unless you are running a linux iso mirror (I refer you to "worthwhile") ...

That said fight the machine because eventually you'll end up like us poor suckers.

[Tasty]

I am sorry but I can't help but laugh at this thread.

I am on the largest plan offered by my ISP in Australia (and its no longer even offered) and its 70aud (about 50usd) for 20gig on peak and 40g off peak a month. Alot of our plans don't have download limits, they have transfer (upload and download combined) limits.

The unlimited DSL at work costs us around 2grand (1600usd) a month.

Not to mention I am not sure how on earth you could find 250gb of legal and worthwhile things to download every month unless you are running a linux iso mirror (I refer you to "worthwhile") ...

That said fight the machine because eventually you'll end up like us poor suckers.

I'm moving to TPGs unlimited internet plan soon. $160ish a month but worth it IMO

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh, it does get amusing in a twisted sorta way at times. All things considered, I think most of us consumer types become combative when the "you don't need that much bandwidth" moralists start preaching to us. Who the hell are you (I use "you" generically here) to tell me how much I "need" or care what I use it for? Just stick to the basics of "we have a few folks who use enough bandwidth that it starts cutting too deeply into our profit margins," and leave it at that. Fix your business model and don't get preachy on me. It's just business, after all, RIGHT? :P

[thinus]

Heh, it does get amusing in a twisted sorta way at times. All things considered, I think most of us consumer types become combative when the "you don't need that much bandwidth" moralists start preaching to us. Who the hell are you (I use "you" generically here) to tell me how much I "need" or care what I use it for? Just stick to the basics of "we have a few folks who use enough bandwidth that it starts cutting too deeply into our profit margins," and leave it at that. Fix your business model and don't get preachy on me. It's just business, after all, RIGHT? :P

So justify why you need that much bandwidth a month, what is your legitimate need? The people complaining are the people downloading 100s of gigs of illegal data every month. What are you preaching, protect my right to download tons of illegal stuff I don't want to pay for and will probably not even get around to listening to or watching or whatever it is you do with all that crap you download.

[Tasty]

Heh, it does get amusing in a twisted sorta way at times. All things considered, I think most of us consumer types become combative when the "you don't need that much bandwidth" moralists start preaching to us. Who the hell are you (I use "you" generically here) to tell me how much I "need" or care what I use it for? Just stick to the basics of "we have a few folks who use enough bandwidth that it starts cutting too deeply into our profit margins," and leave it at that. Fix your business model and don't get preachy on me. It's just business, after all, RIGHT? :P

So justify why you need that much bandwidth a month, what is your legitimate need? The people complaining are the people downloading 100s of gigs of illegal data every month. What are you preaching, protect my right to download tons of illegal stuff I don't want to pay for and will probably not even get around to listening to or watching or whatever it is you do with all that crap you download.

Pssh downloading illegal stuff is a legitimate need :P

[Blackguarde]

Dont know what to say, if you are exceeding your limit, buy a bigger plan (like a commercial plan).

Everyone has to play by the rules, including you (edit: and incudling me). You are not a a shining icon of representation. Get over it.

[Stabface]

So you use 250G a month, 8+G per day... for what?

Really, it's almost impossible that you're actually using that much bandwidth on legitimate "stuff".
Even if you're pirating, its like 1-2 DVD's per day... uncompressed. Seriously. Do you actually use everything you download ?
Get help for your bandwidth addiction!