

Comcast gets another mouthful











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5 Gb a month is plenty
By lifeblood on 8/25/2008 8:42:45 AM , Rating: 0
As a Comcast customer their is no way I could use 5 Gb a month. Maybe if I reliably got the speed I'm paying for I could, but since my actual download speed is consistently far slower it's a moot point.

That can't deliver what they claim and what we pay for. Maybe it's just the neighborhood I live in, but Comcast is incredibly slow.

RE: 5 Gb a month is plenty
By FITCamaro on 8/25/2008 9:09:53 AM , Rating: 4
Its a 5GB a month cap. It's not dependent on how fast you download that 5GB. Just what you're allowed to use. So if you download a 1.5GB game demo or a 400MB TV show, that's 8-20% of your monthly allotment gone right there. And I seriously doubt your connection is so slow that a 1.5GB demo would take more than a few hours to download.

Average use could easily chew up 5GB a month. Unless you just check your email once a day and read the news.

RE: 5 Gb a month is plenty
By lifeblood on 8/25/2008 9:52:29 AM , Rating: 2
I was being sarcastic. The point I was trying to make was that not only does Comcast throtle it's customers, it provides lousy service to boot (in my experience). Believe me, I am in complete agreement with you and the OP.

RE: 5 Gb a month is plenty
By AlexWade on 8/25/2008 5:29:29 PM , Rating: 4
A bandwidth cap is really just a wait to raise prices while being able to say they didn't raise prices. Sort of like how my local government didn't raise taxes, just raised the value of my property. In the eyes of my county, my car is worth more this year than last year. Well, same principle with the ISP's.

