Comcast capping connections to 250GB/mo

[Candyflip]

This is ridiculous and is tantamount to a cable company charging a person for simply watching more TV than the average person. 

Damn dude, don't give them ideas

[TVC15]

Hey Willco, you can defend Comcast's decision to regress to AOL-style metering all you want, but unless Comcast is signing your cheque, I think it's a pretty silly thing to defend.  As I said on GAF, the limit is high now, but why would they go to the trouble of announcing a limit if they didn't plan on metering usage further?  If you accept this now, you're not allowed to wah wah a year from now when your 50 bucks a month is only getting you, say, 100 gigs.

Likely because it was stated as unlimited and people have approached over the 250GB/per month cap, which was already in place and they opted to make it so for legal reasons.  Especially when people's downloadable content options keeping increasing, I'm sure they'll have a handful of individuals who'll download hundreds of videos and albums per month under the belief that they had unlimited Internet traffic.  I don't doubt that you can hit the cap with legit usage, but for it to occur, you'd have to spend a considerable amount of money.  And if that's the case, those folks will have the resources to look at other options.

Why would a company decrease the cap?  Comcast isn't evil or dumb.  Like I said, if there's a large enough amount of people hitting the cap with legitimate usage, they will simply charge for tiers and - tada! - more revenue.  If you're upset that you might have to pay more in the near future if you use the service a ton, then that's capitalism, baby.  Most folks use cable to check their stupid MySpace, read e-mails, watch YouTube, download porn and play games and 250GB/per month is a reasonable cap.  They're not going to cater their service to a fraction of their subscribers.

Tet, you can't dismiss DSL with "lol".  Dear God, you might have to sacrifice speed for usage and that's legitimate (oh no, up to 6MB DL instead of whatever your cable company gets - my local Comcast connection WISHES it was that good).  First off, DSL is not 56k, it's legitimately high speed.  Also, it's available in a lot of places.  FIOS is also available in a lot of metropolitan areas.  HughesNet, which is sattelite, starts at like $60 per month.  There are options, Tet.

I'm not defending Comcast, but I absolutely hate it when people who do something illegal get pissy when it looks like that will no longer be the case.  Did you really think the good times would last forever?  If someone isn't making money off of you, somebody else will figure how.

I'm not so much pissy as I am peeved.  I haven't even threatened to leave Comcast.  I got pissy when you pulled the Einstein line because you are a total fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

[The Fake Shemp]

I love you too.

[DJ_Tet]

You do not need an active phone line.  I had DSL for AT&T for over a year without an active phone line - this is not 2001!  AT&T also offers speeds up to 6MB.  That's not really slow, dude.  You cannot simply discount DSL.  Yes, overall, cable provides consistently higher speeds.  But it's not like the stone age.

FIOS is out and about here in a large portion of the DC metropolitan area.  My brother and I are pretty heavy gamers, download from XBL, download music, etc.  I might look into that.

I know the tech doesn't require an active phone line, but they wouldn't budge last time I tried to get dsl without a phone.  And this was two years ago.  Perhaps I just ran into a shitty CR, but our phone company either pushes really hard for a basic phone line or flat-out requires it.

If you have FIOS I'd definitely jump on that.  I will be the first to transfer in Charlotte, our TW HD package is pathetic. 

[demi]

I hope I dont need a new phone when I get set up at the new place... I want to go cell only

[Rman]

I hope I dont need a new phone when I get set up at the new place... I want to go cell only

You won't.  I've been cell only for years.