said by Ebolla :

dont forget though if you have a business class account for chsi you cannot have residential cable/phone services which means all rates increase.

said by Hashmap :

It appears that since they have a monopoly on bandwidth in any area they do business in,

said by swintec :

160 sounds incredibly high. I am not a Comcast user so I can't say for sure, but I do know Time Warners business package is 89 or 99 a month. For some reason I seem to remember Comcasts business package being in the same boat as that, although they do have several different business classes I believe. Someone more knowledgeable on it could give you a better run down on pricing.

said by imrf :

No they don't. Ever hear of DSL? I have a choice of two cable providers plus DSL through the local telephone company plus whatever resellers are available to use their network. You should look into what your local telco, probably Qwest offers, and see if they are any better than Comcast.

said by Hashmap :

I'm not going to get into a debate over how much transfer a person should consume in a given month or justify my personal usage (I telecommute and deal with a lot of streaming media content among other things, so I use far more than your grandmother does --- hell, two users in your home streaming internet based 256kbps radio stations during the day hours will consume about 100gb/mo alone) and I'm not going to argue the whole "but you advertise it as unlimited!" stuff.

I do need some alternative options. I have a Comcast account and have averaged just under 300gb of transfer per month for the last couple of years. This has not changed. Without changing my usage habits, I received a notification from Comcast last month that I used "too much bandwidth" that month. No explanation of how much is too much or how much i need to cut it down by. Just a comment that if I "use too much" ever again, I am banned for a year.

If the limit is 200gb (I have no idea - just randomly guessing), then I would gladly pay another $65 to be allowed another 200gb. Or buy two accounts. Or increase to a different tier of service. Or... anything.

It appears that since they have a monopoly on bandwidth in any area they do business in, they can offer a "one size fits all" solution. I'm a customer. A consumer. A tax payer that contributes and theoretically controls to some degree their public utilities granted monopoly.

So why not offer me some options? I'm not some whining tool asking for the unlimited internet access that you advertised to me. I'm more than happy to pay for Comcast to offer me a better service more suited to my needs.

But they don't seem to have it. From what I have read, even their expensive BUSINESS service won't let you utilize your full bandwidth (so really, what the hell is the point?!).

Does anyone know of an option I can check out? I should note that I also live in an apartment, if that provides more limitations. I thought I could just buy two Comcast accounts, but my research has shown that is a hassle and very difficult, because each line is geographically tied to a specific address and being in an apartment complex would make that potentially impossible, even.

said by Hashmap :

I'm actually quite happy with my Comcast experience these last half dozen years, when it comes to my internet service. All I want is to give them more of my money for a service.