Comcast plans to roll out data caps for all customers in next 5 years

[SNGX1275]

30Gb is only 10 decent resolution movies a month.

What if I was to tell you an 1080p Bluray rip that is encoded to h264 of a movie like Robocop is 14.3GB.. Now that drops to 2 movies a month. Sure you could argue that in this particular instance if you downloaded that it would be piracy and it is 'illegal', but if you can get 10 'HD' movies in 30 gigs, vs 2 'hd' movies, I'd question the actual quality of your 'hd' source.

 

[Guest]

@Trillionsin, If you went over then you must be downloading every minute of the day and night. For a short time Comcast had a 250GB cap. It's been gone for a few years now. You say you went several hundred over so that must put you @ about 600GB per month. I enjoy a 56MB/s download speed from Comcast and watch a crapload of video. I've never even come close to 250 - 300 GB and doubt I ever will. Maybe you should find something else to do except download crap from the piratebay or newsgroups.

Sign me 'Satisfied with Comcast'

p.s. Don't go blind watching all that downloaded material either....

Really nestorius???

Now we have 4 people in our house hold. 3 computers, 2 laptops, 2 Playstations, Voip Telephone service, and a Smart TV. Believe me, it adds up quicker than you think. 250 Gig or even 300 isn't much any more. And with faster Internet speeds, those Data caps get smaller still. I've gone to 280 in one month, just after Comcast suspended their projected 250 cap.

Now please wake up, if not now, you will, as your Comcast bill keeps getting bigger, you'll notice your services get smaller!

 

[DjKraid]

What's the point in adding data caps...they only loose customers with **** like that. I also work for an ISP and here there are no limits, or well there's of course "speedlimits" depending on what connection/contract/system you have. There's not even data caps on mobile connections here, you can basically donwload and upload as much as you want over 3G and 4G for the monthly fee...and for the tiny monthly fee you also get unlimited calls (within Finland and no service numbers), unlimited mms and sms. 3G version is less than 20€/mo and then the 4G version of that is less than 25€/mo.
Earlier there was data caps here too but they have got removed a while ago and the data caps here wasn't even the same as these ones in this article. The data cap that we had here basically only on the mobile side meant that you got the max dl speed that was available at your area at the time and when the data cap hit you then your connection got a "lower priority" which in its turn basically meant that the connection got a tiny bit slower...
So why this tarded data cap now..? -it won't hit me but still, it's pretty pointless imo...

 

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@ DjKraid
What's the point in adding data caps...they only loose customers with **** like that. I also work for an ISP and here there are no limits, or well there's of course "speedlimits" depending on what connection/contract/system you have. There's not even data caps on mobile connections here, you can basically donwload and upload as much as you want over 3G and 4G for the monthly fee...and for the tiny monthly fee you also get unlimited calls (within Finland and no service numbers), unlimited mms and sms. 3G version is less than 20?/mo and then the 4G version of that is less than 25?/mo.

Earlier there was data caps here too but they have got removed a while ago and the data caps here wasn't even the same as these ones in this article. The data cap that we had here basically only on the mobile side meant that you got the max dl speed that was available at your area at the time and when the data cap hit you then your connection got a "lower priority" which in its turn basically meant that the connection got a tiny bit slower...

So why this tarded data cap now..? -it won't hit me but still, it's pretty pointless imo...

It is because in Europe, you guys have free market, you guys have real choices, in the United States we have monopolies, that offer the service they want, at a price they want and users aren't able to do anything, other than using or not using the service!

 

[Camikazi]

Even so, 300GB is a lot of data. I think 1080 HD from Netflix is about 2GB / hour, which means 300GB would be 75 2 hour movies. Even if you watch 3 episodes of your favorite series a night, that still leaves 120 GB of data for everything else you'd do online.
I really don't see how anyone could use 300GB /month, (that's 30GB per DAY). And even if someone could use that much, it's probably less than half of 1% of users.

Maybe UHD will change this, but without that, I don't see how it'd be a problem. It would take a lot of work even to find 30GB of stuff a day to download, not to mention the time it would take. A 10Mpbs download is 1.25MB/s. That's 4.5GB per hour. So you'd have to download at max speed for 6 hours and 40 minutes every day to hit the max. I sure wouldn't get close to that much.

For a single person household maybe 300GB is enough but when you have 6 people each of them having a computer and using Netflix/Youtube in the same house then no it is no where near enough. Hell if you have enough video happy friends on Facebook you can use up quite a bit of bandwidth just on those alone let alone watching other things. Also what you need to remember is even day to day websites use up MUCH more data then they did years ago, everything is much higher bandwidth use now and with multiple people all using at the same time it adds up very quickly. I have a friend who goes beyond 8GB a month on his cell phone and that is just using Facebook, Youtube and Netflix just one person without a computer so the streams are all lower speeds, and no he does not download things.

 

[DjKraid]

It is because in Europe, you guys have free market, you guys have real choices, in the United States we have monopolies, that offer the service they want, at a price they want and users aren't able to do anything, other than using or not using the service!

Well there are monopolies here too even tho that's supposedly illegal...and yet it's the state who upkeep them... anyhow, it's mostly the customers/consumers here who demand for things to change and that usually results in changes. Somehow I don't see how the consumers there couldn't be able to get the companies to change their ways in the favor of the consumers :/