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Comcast has a 250 gig limit on internet
- Thread starter Johnny
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I've gone over the 250 gig limit twice. I have yet to have Comcast contact me. I do know that my cousin was contacted via letter by Comcast that if he went over 250 gig again, they would cancel his service for 1 year. He also had used over 1tb of bandwidth that month.
I do make sure to check my comcast account to check their account of my usage regularly and also run Networx on all of my networks computers.
Aso of today, the 11th, I'm at 77GB according to Comcast and 56.9GB according to Networx. Now I know that I haven't streamed 20 GB of Netflix content, probably closer to 3 GB. Thanks Comcast!
I do make sure to check my comcast account to check their account of my usage regularly and also run Networx on all of my networks computers.
Aso of today, the 11th, I'm at 77GB according to Comcast and 56.9GB according to Networx. Now I know that I haven't streamed 20 GB of Netflix content, probably closer to 3 GB. Thanks Comcast!
The cap is a "soft" cap meaning if you go a bit over now and then you will not hear from Comcast.
They tend to go after the people who are going way over the cap every month and/or are putting a strain on the node (like running a server or torrenting heavily 24/7).
As for your usage it is all data that goes through the modem.
They tend to go after the people who are going way over the cap every month and/or are putting a strain on the node (like running a server or torrenting heavily 24/7).
As for your usage it is all data that goes through the modem.
Everyone is going to have a cap so get used to it.
There is not enough bandwith to support streaming video so someone is going to have to pay for the new bandwidth infrastructure.
The ISP's want part of the streaming video (content) market place profits for their own to cover their increased bandwith demands.
So we pay more and/or get less bandwidth.
There is not enough bandwith to support streaming video so someone is going to have to pay for the new bandwidth infrastructure.
The ISP's want part of the streaming video (content) market place profits for their own to cover their increased bandwith demands.
So we pay more and/or get less bandwidth.
It is the same reason why you have tiered on wireless carriers. That makes it impossible to have anything that streams, like xm for mobile; sky.fm; sportcast; or vcast; etc; etc; etc.
All they are going to do is put those places out of business becuase they would rather charge you 1,000 a month for ten minutes of play time as apposed to give unlimited.
All they are going to do is put those places out of business becuase they would rather charge you 1,000 a month for ten minutes of play time as apposed to give unlimited.
A year or two back Time Warner’s Road Runner had test markets for a 40 gig cap, after a while they steered away from it for now. The way Time Warner is headed I’m sure the cap will be back soon.
The last few months Time Warner has been moving standard tier channels to the digital side “only viewable with the rental of a digital set top box and the fees that go along with it” Now on April 12th we will loose 5 more channels “Travel Channel, truTV,C-Span 2, CMT and ShopNBC to this stupid ploy to force us to rent a digital set top box to receive channels and pay the extra dollars…all the while our rates have been going up considerably but were still loosing channels, we also pay just over $21.00 a month to receive the local channels in this area that should be free.
When I removed the digital box about 2 years ago I was even getting charged rent on the damm remote to run the thing.
If I took my boots off I think that I could count the channels we have left with fingers and toes!!
That is unless I wanted to pay $160.00 to $200.00 a month.
I know some people around here that pay $240 a month for cable TV and internet with them.
The last few months Time Warner has been moving standard tier channels to the digital side “only viewable with the rental of a digital set top box and the fees that go along with it” Now on April 12th we will loose 5 more channels “Travel Channel, truTV,C-Span 2, CMT and ShopNBC to this stupid ploy to force us to rent a digital set top box to receive channels and pay the extra dollars…all the while our rates have been going up considerably but were still loosing channels, we also pay just over $21.00 a month to receive the local channels in this area that should be free.
When I removed the digital box about 2 years ago I was even getting charged rent on the damm remote to run the thing.
If I took my boots off I think that I could count the channels we have left with fingers and toes!!
That is unless I wanted to pay $160.00 to $200.00 a month.
I know some people around here that pay $240 a month for cable TV and internet with them.
Dtv works if your just replacing cable TV (unless your in an apartment then your stuck), but Time Warner has a monopoly on internet service most places it's available.
Also read not to long ago they are working to pass laws that would make it more difficult to run fiber to the home (aka FiOS). This type of anti-competitive behavior should be illegal instead of the norm.
Also read not to long ago they are working to pass laws that would make it more difficult to run fiber to the home (aka FiOS). This type of anti-competitive behavior should be illegal instead of the norm.
