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Comcast is going to limit broadband usage (pg. 4)
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| T-Soma |
12 gig per month from 12pm - 12am
then an additional 24 gig from 12am to 12pm.
And that is probably costing more than most uncapped plans in the US.
I remember when we first got cable internet here (6 years ago) it was unlimited and wayyy cheaper.
Australia's communications infrastructure is so screwed :( |
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| getfoul |
| Hate to burst any hate bubbles, but it's the same cap they've been enforcing in the past. Only difference is now they are publicly saying what the number is. There's no difference in the service what so ever. Just a press release mentioning what they're up to. |
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| CyclonesWorld |
Everyone is making a big deal about this. Comcast has always had a 250gb limit but they've never been public about it. If you went over it they would call you and bitch about it.
I torrent music and movie 24/7 and I've never gone over 250gb. Unless you're streaming 1080p porn all day for a week most people have nothing to worry about.
At 10 Mbps it'd take over 2 days to download 250gb. I doubt anyone is constantly pulling that kind of speed for 2 days with Comcast.
/edit ^^^ Damn I was beat to it. |
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| pyro264jb |
| tom your screwed |
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| diggerz |
| seems ok, Internet junkies lol |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by getfoul
Hate to burst any hate bubbles, but it's the same cap they've been enforcing in the past. Only difference is now they are publicly saying what the number is. There's no difference in the service what so ever. Just a press release mentioning what they're up to. |
Exactly. The one complaint about the cap in the past was that Comcast would never tell anybody what it was. Now that it's out, people are bitching just as much when nothing has changed at all. |
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| Sunsnail |
| rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble |
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| La5eR |
From a software developer standpoint this can be bad: Lets say youre running MS Visual Source Safe and you have two or more offices around the world and you use comcast as the source-safe server host.
You run a nightly build of your product and ship it out to your other offices via FTP or SFTP.
If your product is around 500MB after a succesfull build your group of x employees all need a copy to test the next day and do regression testing on it. If you have upwards of 50 developers working on this project thats roughly 25GB/day of transfers out of the month if youre on the standard M-F work week thats cap after 2.4 weeks of transfers. You then also run into even more trouble if your OS software vendor makes a service pack or security update to the OS your developers are running on. Then theres the E-Mail traffic and other various business related traffic. It all adds up fast. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by La5eR
From a software developer standpoint this can be bad: Lets say youre running MS Visual Source Safe and you have two or more offices around the world and you use comcast as the source-safe server host.
You run a nightly build of your product and ship it out to your other offices via FTP or SFTP.
If your product is around 500MB after a succesfull build your group of x employees all need a copy to test the next day and do regression testing on it. If you have upwards of 50 developers working on this project thats roughly 25GB/day of transfers out of the month if youre on the standard M-F work week thats cap after 2.4 weeks of transfers. You then also run into even more trouble if makes a service pack or security update to the OS your developers are running on. Then theres the E-Mail traffic and other various business related traffic. It all adds up fast. |
Yes, but...
This is the same limit that they've had in place from day one. If you've been going about your daily business (see: if people have been doing similar to what you've suggested) so far without any problems then you have nothing to worry about. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by La5eR
From a software developer standpoint this can be bad: Lets say youre running MS Visual Source Safe and you have two or more offices around the world and you use comcast as the source-safe server host.
You run a nightly build of your product and ship it out to your other offices via FTP or SFTP.
If your product is around 500MB after a succesfull build your group of x employees all need a copy to test the next day and do regression testing on it. If you have upwards of 50 developers working on this project thats roughly 25GB/day of transfers out of the month if youre on the standard M-F work week thats cap after 2.4 weeks of transfers. You then also run into even more trouble if your OS software vendor makes a service pack or security update to the OS your developers are running on. Then theres the E-Mail traffic and other various business related traffic. It all adds up fast. |
I would guess that there are business plans available, that don't have that kind of cap? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I would guess that there are business plans available, that don't have that kind of cap? |
There are. |
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| aquila |
| I'm quite content with 15Gb per month, I don't download many movies as such. |
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