Re: OT Comcast Internet Service Limitations

On 29 Aug 2008 06:02:58 -0700, starsoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lizette
Koehler) wrote:

Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap
customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best
service for the vast majority of its subscribers.

Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes
per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the
equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies.

When Comcast first came out with internet service, they had a plan for
@home and for @work. I never saw an @work address, and the @home
people are not @comcast.

While most internet users won't be near the 250 gigabyte equivalent,
there certainly is a market of people want movies on demand. Some of
these want it to their computer, others to their TV. If you buy your
pay-per-view movie from Comcast - will they count it as part of their
250 gigabytes?

Qwest is advertising "Discover new Fiber-Optic <i>Fast</i> Internet -
connection speeds up to 20 Mbps, combined with DIRECTTV Service.
Competition rules, and technology cost Comcast monopolies it paid good
money to the politicians to get.

Businesses need reliability more than anything else, but even small
businesses need speed. If they use that kind of bandwidth, they
would be willing to pay more.

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