Comcast Imposes 250GB Limit on Internet Bandwidth Usage

7:45 am on August 29, 2008 | Category: Internet, Telecom Services

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America’s leading high-speed internet provider, Comcast, is imposing restrictions on consumer broadband use, capping monthly downloads at 250GB of data.

Customers who exceed the limit, which takes effect on October 1, will receive a warning call after their first infraction, then have their service suspended for a year if they go over the limit again.

Comcast justifies the new limitation by stating that “250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 – 3 GB.”

“To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following: send 50 million e-mails (at 0.05 KB/e-mail), download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song), download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie), or upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo),” the company said in the amendment to its Acceptable Use Policy.

Strangely, Comcast is not offering any way for its users to keep track of bandwidth usage. Users who are concerned about exceeding the 250GB will have to find their own bandwidth monitoring software online.

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    1. I do love how they imposed this new limit because some old lady might not use her bandwidth. So we all get capped..

      Ok Mr Exec at comcast. how about this, I don’t watch BET, E online, MTV, VH1, Nick, Disney, cooking, sports, local TV stations, I don’t watch the hallmark channel, nor the other crap offered for my near 65$$ comcast cable TV. Sure as hell I’m getting charged, with your rational, I should be able to shut the crap off I don’t use. Or impose new limits. How bout everyone can only watch those channels I don’t use for 1 hour a day?

      Tell you what, Send me a notice, Shove it up your butt, And I’ll laugh all the way to fios.

      bye bye 60$ comcast internet bill, Bye bye 60 $ Cable HD tv bill.. bye bye 10 $ a month hardware fee & taxes.

      Comment by ss — April 27, 2010 #

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