Just downloaded this puppy...600MB...
Posted on 06/18/2014 11:42:13 AM PDT by Dallas59
Comcast is testing data caps for its broadband internet customers that would limit them to 300 GB of data per month, according to The Times Leader.
Comcast has started open trials of its home broadband data caps in several large markets around the country.
Here are all the regions affected:
Mobile, Alabama
Huntsville, Alabama
Tuscon, Arizona
Atlanta, Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia
Jackson, Mississippi
Charleston, South Carolina
Knoxville, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
All of central Kentucky
The entire state of Maine
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I went through all this with Comcast back when my daughter was having brain surgery. She played Netflix shows for 16-20 hours a day as her life was resetting. I was trying to find out a cheaper alternative before moving my business elsewhere.
If I sign up for a service and the terms are 50 Bucks unlimited usage and then the company decides to change it to 50 bucks but you only get x number of data its not Capitalism its fraud.
Try and get out of a contract early with one of these companies and they will make you pay to do so BUT they reserve the right to change the terms of the deal any time they want. They are crooks plain and simple. AND they've been caught many times censoring data flow (slowing down certain websites/services) and they try to hide such and then claim there is no law the prohibits them from doing so.
LOL nicely done!
Comcast accounts can look it up on-line. If you use another carrier over Comcast, as I do, you have to call to look it up.
Sounds like an instant cure for many people’s internet addiction.
This may be new for Comcast, but others have done it for a while. I don’t know what our limit is, but we never have been over. Neighbors say they give you 2 “grace” months before charging you. We do not download movies, but the neighbors probably hit them hard.
I notice that the right to work states in the S.E. were at the top of their list. They must have it in for the free, non union, low tax states of the South.
But nobody is mandating that you use this service or provider.
If they changed the service but won’t let you terminate the contract, file a class action lawsuit.
Comcast is an incredible cash machine.
There will be a squadron of tort attorneys wanting to take your case.
just kidding about the last one...
Maybe that is. But Comcast being the only carrier allowed on the cable is not. It is a monopoly by region, and oligopoly for the country split between 3 providers. I get that some investors paid to lay the cables, but at what point do we consider that debt and interest paid? Do any of the original investors remain? We broke up Ma Bell, it may be time to “break up” the cable monopoly, which doesn’t mean shut them down but simply means to allow all comers the right to deliver services over the cable. That is capitalism and competition.
Millenials are so bandwidth addicted, the end result of this will be a big, massive public internet infrastructure that we’ll all pay for, but which will be “free” to the end user.
What makes you think it costs more to send a gigabyte than a megabyte?
I think a lot depends on location.
I can get Brighthouse, U-Verse, telco DSL, or satellite internet at my suburban Indiana location.
I use the competitive quotes to batter down the price at renewal time.
From what I hear..Sending 1GB over the net is less than a cent.
I got the maximum package with my cable provider that allows for 350GB per month download @20mbps. Haven’t run a full month yet, but if streaming HD consumes about 2GB per hour, I should be good for about 6 hours a day of streaming. We’ll see how it stacks up.
Those are all different products. DSL is, btw, open to competition in most areas but few still do it since it is one of the slower alternatives. Satellite involves the cost of launching into space and yet there are still 3 competitors. But your coax cable is still a monopoly.
Oh, and yeah I know some deliver TV, some deliver streaming content etc. I am not arguing that “internet access is a right” but it is something that is evolving with technology and is simply bad public policy imho to let a small handful of people control it. Even if it is regulated and supposedly they can only censor things with no redeeming quality (same standard as print) - they are slowly moving in that direction.
Not in this day and age. Three teenagers and a wife all with wifi devices, plus their friends when they come over. We don’t use cable, only streaming. Along with my usage, we easily download a minimum of 250G a month. That is with restrictions I have put in place. WiFi goes off between midnight and 5:30 a.m. No internet.
One hour of YouTube can eat up 2G to 3G easily. Multiply by 4 or 5 people once a day, plus a movie on the weekends. You reach 300G real quick.
Yeah, what about Steam or just game downloads in general?
Do these idiots realize that if you purchase one new game on Steam this month the download can be 40GB?
MORE THAN 10% OF YOUR MONTHLY ALLOTMENT FOR ONE SINGLE SOLITARY DOWNLOAD OF A NEW GAME.
Insanity.
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