Comcast has now put a limit on bandwidth w/o telling their customers how much they have used.  They do the above evils with a smile.  Personally, Comcast can die!  Thoughts on this word of truth my fellow VG members?

Why couldn't have this been a part of the previous thread made last night?

but whatever, Yeah I'm pissed about this too. According to what I have read the cap will be 250GB. Given bandwidth is measured in bits not Bytes I'm kinda wondering about that statement. Theres an obvious difference between 250Gb and 2Tb. This could become quite a nussance for MMOs and users, especially those (like me) who like to play more than 1.

Since I have to call them up YET AGAIN tommorow to try to get my HD BOX working with ON DEMAND I'll see if the "friendly" customer service people can offer any information.

I knoe one thing. My wife and I want a reduced rate. Because this isn't the service we signed up for at the initial price!

I saw a comcast commercial and I'm like ooh it has more HD shows, thats nice, too bad its expensive.
Then I shunned it and turned my head in shame.

How will this affect XBL users? How much bandwidth does XBL take up?

An MMO won't take up that much bandwidth.  Let's take WoW.  Let's assume you're playing 24/7.  At the most it'll probably use 100kb/s and on average about 30kb/s.  24/7 for a month is only 75 gigs if you play 24/7. 

Even if you had 2 computers going 24/7 you still wouldn't touch 250gigs.  Why are you even complaining about a 250 gig cap?  Bell only offers 60.

That's why I stick with Verizon FiOs...lol

I thought they got hit by the FCC bat because of this a few months ago.

What's Comcast?

Let's say you own a PS3 and rent the HD movies from their store. The are on average around 7 gigs a movie if you get HD. If you rent a movie every day that is 210 GBs right there.(Not that anyone would but if you do it once a week than that is still around 28 gigs.)

In my case I also stream netflix movies and do a lot of Youtube stuff and Gametrailers downloading updates like SP1 for Vista as well as regular updates for Windows as well as Mac updates and Ubuntu updates. Also Voip uses bandwidth. Tat there is MMO and we are on the eve of digital distribution.

A heavy user could top that 250 GB pretty fast at the speeds you could get. 250 Gigs may sound like a lot but I am looking forward to the day I can download 1080P movies that are roughly 15GB to own or even games or Online games that use more bandwidth foir a more immersive experience I see that as a handicap to progress.

^^^
It's not like they won't ever increase the amount or offer packages for more. I disagree with their overselling and their blatant lying about how they throttle Torrents with RST packets. At least they finally came out with a hard limit on what they defined as reasonable use.

Isn't a giant class action suit being filed against them for lying about being unlimited?