Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth cap October 1.

[Goth Brooks]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...-october-1.html

Comcast has announced that it will in fact be introducing bandwidth caps to all residential customers. The cap, which will go into effect as of October 1, will be 250GB per month. Comcast justifies the decision by saying that it's "an extremely large amount of data," and that a very large majority of customers will never cross it.

[Hellion]

I hear that all internet providers are doing this,I have nothing to really worry about since I don't use much data.

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

I do that under a month even when I'm not downloading things....online flyers and such tend to build up....thats bullshyt.

[Azeuron]

From what i understand... Comcast as well as most other providers have been doing this all along... Comcast just openly released what the cap is instead of hiding it...

[SaGa]

most wont. unless you stream video a lot. while downloading a movie and anything else. hardcore gamers might reach it if its the wow player

[Nightgaunt]

Just in case you weren't aware...

[Goth Brooks]

Just in case you weren't aware...

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Is that Athene???

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

You have to be doiong some pretty hardcore filesharing to hit that cap.

and no, gamers playing things like WoW or FPS's will never hit that cap even if they play 24 hours a days. The amount of data sent back and forth between client and server is minimal or the lag would be so large as to make the game unplayable.

[phee]

You have to be doiong some pretty hardcore filesharing to hit that cap.

and no, gamers playing things like WoW or FPS's will never hit that cap even if they play 24 hours a days. The amount of data sent back and forth between client and server is minimal or the lag would be so large as to make the game unplayable.

This is correct

[SaGa]

in a 31 day month

8,064,516kb a day

or 93 kb/s at 24 hours a day..

so basicly enough to stop hardcore seeders using comcast. not much of a hit. i think there fake packets that they send in and out on bittorrent does more pain then a cap...