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

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the2real4mafol on 21 September 2012

That is a lot of gigs a month, but it's probably easy to go through.Either way, there should not be a data cap, just a way for them to make extra money is it not?



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the2real4mafol on 21 September 2012
WiiBox3 said:
superchunk said:
They always had data caps. They are just now advertising them and instead of having your data throttled without knowing, you will now have an associated fee, but with a higher cap by default.

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.


Yeah the old cap was 250 GB even though they advertised unlimited. If you went over it twice they would cancel your service.

This will become more of an issue as more people download console games. With the Wii U offering first party games for download, the cap could be a problem for more people than before.

On a side note, I used 37GB last month alone on my HTC Evo Smart Phone on Sprint.

i'm sorry but that's just crazy. 37GB just from your phone in 1 month. I've only ever done 1GB in one month. You must be watching HD videos or netflix or something like that alot of the time



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Ail on 21 September 2012

I am a Comcast subscriber too .
Highest I ever got to was 137 GB a few months ago and that included downloading a 24GB game of the PSN and my wife streaming on average 2/3h of  Netflix or Amazon Prime  per night and me watching Twitch tv from time to time...

On average we use 90 GB a month so we're not particulary light users...


So I am perfectly fine with the new cap...



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thetonestarr on 22 September 2012
WiiBox3 said:
thetonestarr said:
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.


But for gamers this is going to become a problem soon, as more and more people download 32GB sized games to play on their console. Then watch netflix streeming, hulu +. As 4K tvs come into the market and drop in price, the quality of streaming will need to get better thus taking more and more bandwidth.  Before you know it 250GB will beconsidered small.

Kind of like Bill Gates once said, "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."


Heavy Netflix streaming uses a max of about 30-40GB a month. So 300GB - that = space to download 6 of those 32GB games and still have enough bandwidth to troll the Internet 24/7 while playing online.

I highly, 100% doubt there's a single one of you doing all of that. There aren't even enough games out there for you to download 6 of them that big every single month, and storing all that is going to be one hell of a problem.

Obviously, I agree entirely with you that before too long, 250GB will be inadequate. But right now, when this information is actually pertinent, it's entirely not the case for anybody outside of  the extremely dedicated. And by the time 300GB is inadequate, I'd venture to say that this policy will be changed or eliminated. Ultra-high-speed Internet is starting to make affordable headway in America, and since Comcast can't afford to roll it out nationwide, they're going to have to find other ways to compete.



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jlrx on 22 September 2012

The fact is it doesn't matter, what matters is stopping the practice before it starts, one day it will be a big issue and that is not when you start to complain or fight against it, you start before hand. What if I buy 7 games in a month, or a steam sale gives me a full collection of games and I want them downloaded, downloads on your consoles, on your computers and other devices. May not be quite a problem right now, but we should never let it become one at home.



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WiiBox3 on 24 September 2012
the2real4mafol said:
WiiBox3 said:
superchunk said:
They always had data caps. They are just now advertising them and instead of having your data throttled without knowing, you will now have an associated fee, but with a higher cap by default.

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.


Yeah the old cap was 250 GB even though they advertised unlimited. If you went over it twice they would cancel your service.

This will become more of an issue as more people download console games. With the Wii U offering first party games for download, the cap could be a problem for more people than before.

On a side note, I used 37GB last month alone on my HTC Evo Smart Phone on Sprint.

i'm sorry but that's just crazy. 37GB just from your phone in 1 month. I've only ever done 1GB in one month. You must be watching HD videos or netflix or something like that alot of the time


Lot's of Netflix that month. :)