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Well, at least now it's official. Before it was "Unlimited" but then they'd shake you down if you used too much.

I'm sure glad I don't use comcast.

Ah crud.

I can't die until I learn to type without mstakes.

WTF? If I had an account this Comcast I would close that account immediately!

Aug 29, 08 - 12:49 pm Comment from: jjjj

Word is, they won't tell you how much you are using. That's up to you to figure out via 3rd party apps or something.

It's Craptastic!

Me too, but I am sure Time Warner will follow.

Greed, greed, greed.

Unlimited my ars, just like the freedoms we have in US.

cumcast

This is disturbing news. Goodbye Comcast.

"WTF? If I had an account this Comcast I would close that account immediately!"

It sounds bad, but it's about 50 times more than companies like Cox and 6 times more than Time-Warner.

It would be tough to go over.

Aug 29, 08 - 01:02 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Wow! To think our local online paper was cited as the source of this story. Time Warner of CNY and Verizon are the two big ISP's around here. (Verizon FIOS really is nice and recommended for those in the FIOS service area. I connect wirelessly from another floor in our house to our router with my PowerMac G5 (guess no Snow Leopard for me) and get around 17 Mbs from our 20Mbs/5Mbs service.) In fact I get a message from the Comcast Authorized Dealer's web page, "Sorry, but Comcast does not service the Syracuse New York area at this time." which again makes it odd that this is reported in our local online paper.

Peace. Have a good weekend.

I'm trying to get an idea of how fast you can use up 250GB. How much bandwidth does an PS3 or XBOX360 take? Regular use of the internet?

Rather than Craptastic of Cumcast, I suggest:

Comcrap

(just seems easier to get out and more universally understood)

Do you need more than 250 gigs per month?

@OnlyMacs

Little to none. The ONLY way to get up to 250GB (which, really, is quite a ton in this day in age) is to be torrenting 24/7 or dling other large media files.

Sorry, don't mean to hijack this story, but I'm being told the oh-so-wonderful MobileMe is down again. Anyone else getting this error message:

"Your MobileMe Mail is currently unavailable.
We apologize for this service interruption and are working hard to resolve the problem."

It's affecting both webmail and my iPhone.

Damn, I'm growing to hate this 'service'...

Aug 29, 08 - 01:16 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Kinda fraks up their whole marketing message doesn't it?

Comcast: "We never stop making fast faster."

It's COMCASTIC!! ...as in Go Comcast yourself you Comcasting @sshole!

Aug 29, 08 - 01:19 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Oh and I will actually tip my hat to the first person who brings a class action lawsuit against these jerks!

Thank you Comcast. You have made me look forward to the very sort of legal battle I despise the most. You've made a monster of me!!! (though I'm not sure what kind because a Google search might put me over my download limit)

Pray for Verizon FiOS do deliver us.

Rob, you have the freedom to be just as big of an idiot as you want.

What else could ask for?

Re: Victor Meldrew said, "Rob, you have the freedom to be just as big of an idiot as you want."

Victor certainly is proof of that. Excuse me, pot. The kettle called.


(Comment from: Victor Meldrew - Aug 29, 08 - 11:58 am
"I pray to God Almighty Barack Obama does not get president. "If he does, the blacks will riot, if he doesn't, they will riot even more. They will cry that the election was stolen like in '00 and '04.")

So am I going to get a discount when before I was paying for unlimited, and now Im paying for 250GB?

Didn't think so.....so much for any real purpose for this..


Unless I get better consistent download speeds, or some other benefit, there is no purpose for this.

I should be able to save money since im getting a lower set of service.

ultra lame.

Aug 29, 08 - 01:43 pm Comment from: Andy

I suppose 'unlimited' didn't make sense to the minds of corporate bureaucrats who like everything in neat little compartmentalized boxes or forms.

Be grateful we don't require licenses to breathe the air, yet...

Sarah Palin = giant bodacious cans, beautiful face, well-spoken, smart, and feisty. She's a top shelf MILF.

She's got my vote!

As for Comcast: I'm switching to FiOS as you read this.

Takes one to know one!
And they will! Wait and you'll see.

OK, so does anyone who is bitching and moaning about this new limit actually know how much they use each month? Without looking it up now that I assked the question?

If you're not hosting a free porn site, this really shouldn't affect you. Was Comcast advertising or otherwise promising unlimited access? If not, you don't have a class action lawsuit.

The Deal, Palin is a real MILF for sure.
She's got my vote too!

Aug 29, 08 - 01:52 pm Comment from: alansky

Who moves 250 GB of data per month??? No one I know...

Does anyone know how many iTunes HD movies = 250GB?

Wow. Sarah Palin is quite impressive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8F23DC73G4

typical choice. Govenor of a STATE of less than the number of dissplaced citizens in Iraq. Yeah that's the ticket. Mcsame is just a loser trying to so anything to win. Might as well have Cindy Crawford as VP

Aug 29, 08 - 02:02 pm Comment from: Predrag

250GB is equivalent of a constant average of about 5.8 MB per minute (24/7, for 30 days).

That blows.

Since they are the largest ISP- they should be able to deal with infrastructure- so the little guys are sure to follow suit. The internet gets crippled by such non-sesnse. It's a money grab is all.

That being said- I DL movies regularly (not 24/7), but don't hit 250GB- with out worry. And there's no way I am going back to DSL. I mean- c'mon- hmmm 784K (you never get the 1.5) or you get bonded and still get under 6MB top on that. I'll stick to my 10MB speeds I'm getting now.

They should just increase the fucking infrastructure. It's not like people aren't getting more sophisticated about their internet usage thus vastly increasing the amount of bandwidth they need.

doesn't seem like much of a problem. I've got a 6 mbit/sec connection, I actually get 750 kbyte/sec download rates max. If I ran this 24/7 for a month, I think I could download 200 GB.

now their rate is combined up/down, but still, I don't see how many people are going to run up against this.

I would buy "unlimited" if that amounts to full time full rate usage.

- gws

"Wow. Sarah Palin is quite impressive."

Yes, especially facing an ethics investigation and the complete lack of foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. But she will be handy for changing McCain's adult diapers in between cabinet meetings.

I wonder if Apple's contract with these carriers specified unlimited data plans? If so, I then wonder if Apple could cite breach of contract and then remove the exclusive carrier restriction?

TRD,

So, you'd rather have your complete lack of experience at the top of the ticket?

Obama questioning Palin's experience is political suicide. But, so was picking Joe "Serial Plagiarist" Biden.

BTW, Sarah Palin is the only one in the race with Executive experience.

The last I checked, the President and Vice President head the Executive branch.

Face it, Libs. It's over.

In a 31 day month that comes out to a constant transfer rate of 23.7Mbit. Isn't that more than the actual speed of their current service? Perhaps they're getting ready to roll out the 100Mbit service they talked about last year.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Predrag

zaxxon4:

Your math is bad.
250GB per month =
8.33GB per day =
347.2MB per hour =
5.8MB per minute =
96kB per second (as in kilobytes), which is around 1Mbit per second.

An average ADSL speed.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Hm...

Sigh. I thought this thread was about Comcast. Please take the ill-informed political screeds somewhere else. Anywhere else.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:29 pm Comment from: Cubert

All of this is a result of the Federal Communications Act of 1993 that deregulated the cable industry to "foster competition". 99.7% of all cable companies still have NO competitors. So much for the free market place! Instead we have a monopoly and is what happens with monopolies.

Crappy DSL is the only alternative.

who's number one if comcast is second

Aug 29, 08 - 02:31 pm Comment from: mystic33

According to my calculations, if you do NOTHING else by download movies from iTunes and play them on your Apple TV (like I do), you will only be able to rent about 70 movies in 30 days before you are OVER the Comcast limit. I have noticed that most HD movies average about 3.5 GB from iTunes at 720p.

Now if you want to surf and download on top of that ?????

Not many (if any) people would rent this many films, but adding/transferring files and photos (8MP) to iWeb and your gallery, I suppose one could eat up 250GB without trying too hard.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Predrag

Anyone who has ever experienced torrent speeds greater than 100kBps (as in kilobytes, not kb, kilobits) should be so lucky. For all other torrent downloaders, this limit should be business as usual.

Now, on the other hand, if you are downloading legal files from legitimate sources, such as iTunes, and your HD movie of 2GB saturates your 5Mbps line, this could get you over the limit. You'd still be able to download over 100 movies in one month before hitting that limit (and spend $400 in the process).

As much as I believe this is foolish, realistically, we aren't going to be bumping against this limit. If it does for Comcast what they would like it to do, then fine, as long as it doesn't affect anyone.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:34 pm Comment from: Predrag

Mystic33:

I guess I got my movie size wrong, but the point is there; the only way to bump against the limit would be by legally downloading movies from a very fat (Akamai) pipe; not from LimeWire or Torrent.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:39 pm Comment from: mystic33

Predrag:

No, I may have estimated a little high as well. I have noticed that iTunes HD movies that last more than 2 hrs will bump the 3GB mark or a little more.

I think you are correct that most people will have plenty of leeway before they get to the limit.

Aug 29, 08 - 02:47 pm Comment from: Ampar

To iphone:

"who's number one if comcast is second"

1. SBC (AT&T)

http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa.html

Aug 29, 08 - 02:48 pm Comment from: binarypackrat

I am so outta there with Comcast, You can book it!!!

This isn't about torrents, it's about Compost nipping their future competition IPTV in the bud.

Time for a class action lawsuit. If they place limits they should provide a way to monitor usage.

I wish there was a hi-speed alternative to Comcast in Salt Lake City. :(

Aug 29, 08 - 03:28 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

250 gig a month is a lot

A LOT

Be one serious, 24/7, download junkie to bump into that each month - I've only done it 4 times in past 2 years w/giganews

And then have to put it all somewhere

"Honey, get me some more dvd blanks while you at Wal-Mart, or a couple new hard-drives"


AND - as I knew to expect, and you'll discover same in time, since most of what we download are Movies/TV anyway ... well, have you seen what's on TV or at the Movies ?

Good luck finding 250 gig worth of something TO download each month




BC


(how that ol' Springsteen song go - 567 channels and nothing's on - or 3,486,239,192 web sites and most of 'em suck, present company excluded)