   | Administrator with 9,442 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Chambersburg, PA Experience: Advanced | | Comcast Limits Download Volume
In the latest move to rein in the heaviest users of the Internet, Comcast Corp. announced a cap on the amount of data its customers can download.
Starting Oct. 1, residential high-speed Internet customers will be limited to 250 gigabytes of traffic a month. Typical customers use between two gigabytes and three gigabytes a month, Comcast spokeswoman Jen Khoury said.
| |  | Distinguished Member with 54,159 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: *Random People Pleaser***Sacramento Experience: Having fun | | Typical customers use between two gigabytes and three gigabytes a month.
Almost need this just for MS updates but no way do I use 250 gigabytes of traffic a month.
Wonder if that is the same cap they alway had but would never tell you what it was but they would just email you and tell you that you was using to much and to stop or they would stop you internet. |  | Community Moderator with 22,911 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Eugene, Oregon Experience: Still kickin' | | I read a while back that providers were going to start charging for however much you use. I wonder if this is a first step? |  | Moderator with 90,153 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | I'd love to know where they got the 2-3 gigabyte number.  |  | Member with 33 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Augusta,GA Experience: Always learning :) | | Too bad you have to subscribe to see the full article lol. I have never downloaded 250 gb worth of stuff anyway so I'm not worried about it. |  | Distinguished Member with 4,902 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NJ Experience: Intermediate | | IMO, still a generous number but a little rediculous on the 2-3 gb a month. If your counting both up/down traffic you would probably use that much in your home within a week. Consider backups online, web browsing, gaming online is a TON of bandwidth, on top of that if you have a network its more traffic. Still ridiculous the FCC doesnt slap them with anything.
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RIP Chopper.....DOB:1/3/2000-DOE: 8/18/08  |  | Distinguished Member with 14,136 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Behind my wall Experience: WTH??? | | I wonder how much bandwidth youtube uses up? I am a youtube junkie. | | | Distinguished Member with 4,902 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NJ Experience: Intermediate | | Well you think, they have a 100mb limit, so prob a few megs per video... That definitely adds up, i say on average the average pc user has to generate around 1-200mb per day at least considering any backing up, downloading, email...etc. | | | Distinguished Member with 54,159 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: *Random People Pleaser***Sacramento Experience: Having fun | | I do a backup each day of a forum and there are two backup files. 19 MB and 121 MB so that ads up. Then now and then I got to redownload the bigger file because it is not 121 MB but was a lot smaller for what ever reason like 68.4 MB when it should of been 121 MB.
Then all the other things I do each day with other downloads that are smaller. | | | Moderator with 90,153 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
31-Aug-2008, 09:27 AM
#10 | I doubt I use 250gigs/mo, but I do have an on-line backup application running, not to mention there are about 9 computers connected here, so that's updates for Windows and AV/spyware applications for each of them many times a month.
Finally, I have to have a lot of bandwidth to run up my post count here at TSG! | | | Distinguished Member with 54,159 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: *Random People Pleaser***Sacramento Experience: Having fun |
31-Aug-2008, 11:07 PM
#11 | I got no way of knowing the total bandwidth I use with everything from web pages loading, updates on programs and what programs or files I download. | | | Community Moderator with 22,911 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Eugene, Oregon Experience: Still kickin' |
01-Sep-2008, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Skivvywaver  I wonder how much bandwidth youtube uses up? I am a youtube junkie. | I've thought about that, too. I read an article, I'll try to find, that said because of youtube, the internet will fill up by the year 2011...Not withstanding the internet promises of 2 and 3...  |  | Former Administrator with 104,744 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Experience: Advanced |
02-Sep-2008, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BoDySNaTcHeRz Too bad you have to subscribe to see the full article lol. I have never downloaded 250 gb worth of stuff anyway so I'm not worried about it. | A bit more can be read here: http://dialzero.blogspot.com/2008/09...ad-volume.html |  | Distinguished Member with 3,426 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Experience: Getting it |
03-Sep-2008, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by hewee I got no way of knowing the total bandwidth I use with everything from web pages loading, updates on programs and what programs or files I download. | Your ISP generally has a location to look at your usage. | | | Distinguished Member with 54,159 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: *Random People Pleaser***Sacramento Experience: Having fun |
03-Sep-2008, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by RootbeaR Your ISP generally has a location to look at your usage. | I sure don't where it is at but they should if we are to know how much we are using. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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