Comcast Introduces New Data Caps, What do you think?

[thetonestarr]

Mr Khan said:

thetonestarr said:

JOKA_ said:

thetonestarr said:
Comcast tracks data usage in gigabits, not gigabytes.

That 250 gigabits is actually only 31.25 gigabytes (1 byte = 8 bits). They're "upgrading" to 37.5GB.

Do you have a link for this?  On the Comcast site they use GB (gigbytes) and not Gb (gigabits). 

No, but when I considered switching to them, they said "gigabits" when I asked them for the bandwidth cap.

Probably just sales-rep error.

I asked for her to repeat. And besides, in the lands of sales-rep error, where the sales-rep is ignorant and doesn't know what they're selling, not a single rep in the world would even know what a gigaBIT is, nor would they ever accidentally say "bit" instead of "byte".

And 250GB of data usage of an epic shitton of bandwidth usage. I wouldn't complain about the cap if it's really 300 gigabytes. I've downloaded the entirety of three different TV shows (MASH, Supernatural, X-Files) in the same month before (which is a TON of downloading!) and still didn't hit 200GB for the entire month, with my wife regularly watching Netflix and both of us frequently using the Internet in general.