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

[Zite83]

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:

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ya know, this will only create more opportunity for the companies that do NOT limit bandwidth. That is, if the gummint doesn't step in and screw everything up the way they're screwing up the US economy.

[thinus]

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...

You download 250GB a week. What in gods name do you download?

[Bot]

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...

You download 250GB a week. What in gods name do you download?

from the looks of his avatar i think lots and lots of lake water in mason jars

[Zub]

i live on 4GB a month, never had a problem, obviously i don't download as much i guess, but i have 4 wow accounts playing on that line, manage 3 websites and listen to internet radio/youtube every now and again.
Do you even watch the 250GB/week you download? i had a friend who used to download and stockpile thousands and thousands of songs, and that was a few years back. He never used to listen to any..

over-consumption maybe? 250GB is quite a big chunk.

[Tasty]

I download heaps, problem is I'm stuck on 25gb lol /wrists hopefully that will be changing soon.

[Bradster]

I have Comcast but have not received any such notice. I use torrents daily, can't say I could use that amount in a month however. But I’m on board with your thinking it's the principle of the thing.

Eight years ago I tried out Direct; it was internet satellite since cable internet didn’t make it out here until 2003. I didn’t have the DirectPC service long. They limited you to 250MB a DAY. Please wait while we download windows updates. Opps sorry out of band width! Enjoy under 56k speeds for the next24 hours. To top it off it was $75 monthly JUST for internet.

it does suck how far behind we are, if I could be shown the reasons why there are restrictions then perhaps i could get on board, but with the track record they are just trying to hold power by controlling. The FCC allready spanked them once. Now it will be the Medias turn with this

[Zite83]

wow disconnected 9 times so far with in 5 hours.. My room mate is getting pissed lol.. hes trying to do a Sunwell raid with his guild.. and im just trying to level...... X(

[Fleecy]

Being in New Zealand I have to download everything I watch. New Zealand broadcast TV is so far behind the US it is appalling! I have two DSL connections one is dedicated for WoW (and other online games) and the other is dedicated to downloads (TV, movies etc). Both accounts combined can exceed 350Gb per month.

My ISP is different in that once you exceed the allocated data allowance you have the option to continue at modem speeds (no thanks) or purchase additional data blocks, the largest down the block we can purchase at a time is 50Gb. While this effectively gives us unlimited downloads a full bandwidth we are paying through the teeth for it. Personally, I would rather pay then be bandwidth limited. Hence our extremely high Internet bills each month.

[mmcookies]

broadband penetration in US is like 22nd in the world