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Comcast raises data cap from 250GB to 300GB + $10 for each 50GB over.

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I'm happy they raised th... 2 3.70%
 
This is 2012, why should ... 25 46.30%
 
This is BS, Comcast is al... 7 12.96%
 
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TheShape31 on 19 September 2012

Just because they've always had data caps doesn't make it an acceptable practice. F*** those guys.



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WiiBox3 on 19 September 2012
KylieDog said:
superchunk said:

Unless you watch 100% of your HD movies via online or spend every waking moment on a HD FPS game, you really should have no issue of ever reaching the cap.


Online gaming doesn't use much bandwidth at all, if a game is HD or not doesn't matter either.  An hour on CoD uses about 30MB, so for a 250GB limit you'd need play over 8000 hours a month, something that is impossible.  IN fact if you played CoD 24 hours a day for 30 days straight you'd only use about 21GB.

Unless you are streeming the game from a game streaming service like Sony just bought.



darkknightkryta on 19 September 2012

You know what the problems are with caps? All telco companies agreed with each other that this is a great way to extort cash and force people up to higher plans.



Mr Khan on 20 September 2012

Is there a way to find out what your average monthly usage is? Curious to know

(though i have verizon, slowish DSL)



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jlrx on 21 September 2012
Mr Khan said:
Is there a way to find out what your average monthly usage is? Curious to know

(though i have verizon, slowish DSL)


Depends on your carrier, but your router might have such a feature, Netgear WNDR 3900 has a bandwidth calculation, statistics, throttling, called Traffic Meter right on its settings page, mine is turned off since it would read a billion TB of data transfer and I don't want to see that kind of number.



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rudyrsr8 on 21 September 2012

Veto that crap.



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JOKA_ on 21 September 2012

I think that this problem does not effect the average household, which will never even come close to that cap. But everyone on here (VGC) is more likely to be in the minority that will be effected by this, thus more complaints will be heard here.

Like that guy above that uses 16 - 36 GB on their mobile phone.  That is a HUGE number, my mom averages about 200 MB a month

Also, I have always had this cap, its never been a problem for my house. We have 4 people constantly on the internet, I watch Netflix and play games online, and download a few gigs a month for steam.



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jlrx on 21 September 2012
JOKA_ said:

I think that this problem does not effect the average household, which will never even come close to that cap. But everyone on here (VGC) is more likely to be in the minority that will be effected by this, thus more complaints will be heard here.

Like that guy above that uses 16 - 36 GB on their mobile phone.  That is a HUGE number, my mom averages about 200 MB a month

Also, I have always had this cap, its never been a problem for my house. We have 4 people constantly on the internet, I watch Netflix and play games online, and download a few gigs a month for steam.


This is very very untrue, we are moving towards a future where we are streaming this and that, hulu, netflix, amazon prime, vudu, pandora, etc everything, you don't have to try to stream alot when it comes to HD movies and video content in your home, these caps are horrendous for the fact that there really is no comprable choice available when it comes to a cable system, where you live determines what you get, with few exceptions at this point in time



thetonestarr on 21 September 2012

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.



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Mr Khan on 21 September 2012
jlrx said:
JOKA_ said:

I think that this problem does not effect the average household, which will never even come close to that cap. But everyone on here (VGC) is more likely to be in the minority that will be effected by this, thus more complaints will be heard here.

Like that guy above that uses 16 - 36 GB on their mobile phone.  That is a HUGE number, my mom averages about 200 MB a month

Also, I have always had this cap, its never been a problem for my house. We have 4 people constantly on the internet, I watch Netflix and play games online, and download a few gigs a month for steam.


This is very very untrue, we are moving towards a future where we are streaming this and that, hulu, netflix, amazon prime, vudu, pandora, etc everything, you don't have to try to stream alot when it comes to HD movies and video content in your home, these caps are horrendous for the fact that there really is no comprable choice available when it comes to a cable system, where you live determines what you get, with few exceptions at this point in time

And as that future arrives, they are sure to move up the caps

Though a minority of early-adopters are likely to get screwed as they move towards that transition.



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