| The average user is 1GB/month And comcast is charging 60.00 for that. That's right, 60.00 a month for 1GB of data? If that's the case, then that's only about 3 days of DIAL-UP (33,6) speeds. How in the world can comcast justify charging 60.00 for 1GB of data?
So, if you download only 2GB a month, you COULD be cut off by comcast. Don't think it won't happen, if they want to increase profits, they will just put on a 2GB/month cap.
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Carrollton, TX | said by karlmarx:And comcast is charging 60.00 for that. That's right, 60.00 a month for 1GB of data? I don't understand what you're trying to say. You know as well as I do that you could download 100 times that amount (for the same price) and not have a problem. |
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| Acutally, NO. If every user used just 10GB a month, comcast would collapse. Look at it this way, comcast right now has about 10 million HSI customers. And we know, on average, they use 1GB/month, which comes out to about 250GB/min on their backbone. Now, jack the average usage up to just 5GB/month. Suddenly, their backbone which can barely keep up with the 250/GB/min, now has to handed 1.25TB/min. The infrastructure couldn't handle that without a MASSIVE investment. Comcast knows that, which is why they get so defensive anytime anyone brings up the caps. Hell, if only 10% of the people started using 5GB/month, it would probably bring their network to a standstill. Sure, the AVERAGE user does 1GB/month. But on a 500 user node, that's probably 1 250GB user, and 499 500MB users.
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| I doubt if they made a cap it would be 1GB. Even the lame crappy satellite services give you atleast 7.5GB a month, and they have some of the most limited bandwidth of all. |
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cacoPremium
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Whittier, AK | reply to karlmarx
You are assuming everybody is using the network at same time.
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 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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Might be the case if the data never left Comcast's network. However, this is not the case. Comcast may have millions of subs, but the fanboy downloading gigs upon gigs of anime down in Houston is going to have no effect at all on Grandma in some other state. Zero. Your numbers are, thus, irrelevant.
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 joetaxpayerI'M Here Till Thursday
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Sudbury, MA | reply to karlmarx
said by karlmarx:Sure, the AVERAGE user does 1GB/month. But on a 500 user node, that's probably 1 250GB user, and 499 500MB users. Well, this is part of the issue. Aside from a power user moving to the node, people's usage patterns don't vary by 2X as a group. Maybe usage goes up on a snow day, or down in the summer, but everyone isn't likely to double their usage. I'd think that any given node have enough overhead to allow for the ups and downs. Here's the flip side; do you expect Comcast to provide 100% of the bandwidth 24/7? Check my math, but a 6mb service multiplies to 1944GB per month. It would seem that anyone using up that kind of bandwidth is doing something against TOS. |
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