http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/...roadband-caps/

 

Damn, I didn't realize Comcast and AT&T had caps.

Ooops. I better stop dl'ing so many torrents. LOL!!!

 

I've already been banned from Comcast once.

 

not sticking up for ATT or Comcast here but yeah this was inevitable. Nobody could have predicted 10 years ago how much bandwidth residential users would be going through nowadays. But still, Comcasts 250gigs a month is still over 8 gigs a DAY for a 30 day month! and if you go over its an extra $10 for up to 300gigs a month. If youre planning on using more than 10gigs a day everyday of the month you should probably be on a commercial internet plan, not a residential

 

telecommuter package with Comcast. No limits for me!

 

So here is a question I have tho. They say that only less than 1% of people use over 250g of data a month. If they need to throttle bandwidth to save their infrastructure, how is that going to help anything as they will still have 99% of people using the same amount, which according to Comcast, is bringing down their network.

 

^ No idea, unless many of those in the 1% category are in the TB range.

 

That is exactly why we got banned. We used 1TB two months in a row. The stupid thing was they were unwilling to charge us more or move us to a different plan... they just banned us. Weak-sauce Comcast. We really did want to give you more of our money.

 

It is all about business class Comcast! No limits here as well.

 

Just left comcast and went to FIOS

 

Holy crap 1terabyte a month! That averages out to about 1.5 gigabytes every hour 24/7 for the entire month! WTF were you doing there??

 

im not sure what hes doing but i would bet his right forearm is a lot larger than his left lol. jk i had to

 

rofl

 

I pull down 1.5gigs in about 10 mins when I am grabbing TV shows.

that total would be pretty easy to hit

 

Someone in the house got a bit over zealous with downloading content for the media server. The point is it's totally possible to do. Hell, watching Netflix can cost you 19gigs in a day, easy.

People don't really understand how much data things really use. Most people are watching a few YouTube videos and e-mailing or surfing low usage sites. You get into real stuff and the data adds up really, really fast.