Wow, I can go through that in a week, and I don't even use torrents or anything. I'm not happy with the 250 GB cap, but I doubt I will ever reach it in a month.

I'm on dial up so i doubt i use 250GB a year LOL. And i was hearing that it's not a hard cap, they just limit you speed greatly if you exceed the cap, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, I believe they notify you of your usage and then throttle your speed.

I pay 90.00$ a month for internet and get 17gb cap every 30 days. I wish i could get 250gb a month.

I don't see it in the article, will it let me go over and bill me? Or am I just capped?

I'm on a contract with my ISP, so at least until that contract runs out, they can't change my internet.

250GB/mo is a LOT, though. The vast majority of people will not use that up. I doubt it's much to worry about. Going lower, though, is a different story. If they take that to 150GB, then you may start seeing more "common" people having issues... but it still won't be too terrible.

Oh, and it's completely legal to set up limits. That's called capitalism.

Folks -- Comcast is being nailed because it is the industry leader and tried some "other methods" to control network traffic.

This cap is equal to 125 SD movies per month -- not a big deal.

For what it is worth, the median use is 2G-3G per month. And other providers have caps -- or are testing caps -- beginning at 5G.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOEnKGQ9R-LjWhmeEJkP2l0bLM3QD92RIBKG0

Mike from Morgantown

With these providers, what happens if you go over?

Does the service just stop or do you get billed?

service probably stops until u get billed.

well 250gb is alot, majority wouldnt even need that much. Probably really heavy downloaders that use business speed would but people with the slower cable speeds (i have comcast 6 d/l and 1 ip), wouldn't need that much.

looking at my torrent statistics, only downloaded 100gb in 1 1/2 years and uploaded 50gb. Yea, way off lol.

I understand 250 is really high, but some of them are 5GB.  That would suck.