said by Nightfall :

What does this have to do with people saying the Comcast advertises "Unlimited" service and yet not an ounce of proof has been shown to substantiate it?

I am all for Comcast revealing these caps. I am sure people from other ISPs who have gotten bandwidth warning letters would like to see the same responses from their respective providers as well. This is far deeper than just a Comcast issue.

said by lt_wentoncha :

So then they should post their caps, by regional market, if necessary. How hard is it to put together a page to do that?

said by Rick :

300 gigs a month. Many of us won't use that in our entire LIFETIMES.

Much less in one month.

Can we get real?

said by Nightfall :

Point is that I haven't seen a sign touting "unlimited" broadband in quite some time. Especially from Comcast, who I remember back in 2001 or 2002 would advertise it. Since then, nothing.

Yet there are boatloads of people here claiming they are still advertising it and that Comcast is made of up a bunch of lying bitches. Well, I haven't seen a lick of proof of a single ad that has come out in the last 4 years that has advertised "unlimited" broadband internet for Comcast.

said by Thaler :

Talk to any internet provider's sales, with or without caps. Its almost damn near reflexive for them to include "unlimited" with the bundle description. All I know is everywhere I've gone, speeds aren't advertised, but the introductory rate (along with the "unlimited") are as well. Wish I could find something for ya, but its almost harder to find big boards without the unlimited toting around our area.

said by Nightfall :

Once again....is there any link or print advertisement that shows that Comcast HSI is unlimited in anyway? Even reading their TOS clearly states that it isn't "unlimited".

said by Thaler :

But then in doing so, their unlimited bragging rights go out the window. As much as they'd like to play semantics with unlimited access vs. use, if people see clear caps, they see it as "not really unlimited".

said by lt_wentoncha :

Well, to end this "continual nonsense" Comcast should just publish their caps limits.

said by kinglou0 :

Bull crap, the most recent promotion(s) advertising high speed says unlimited. The commercial is the ones featuring the roommates who schedule their internet time because they 're on DSL. During the ad, Comcast mentions it being unlimited service.
If Comcast wants to be weasels, why don't they just start saying unlimited access not service?

Said at team meeting:

big boss: "So rick, we just throttle this bit-torrent thing and our bandwidth problems go away?"

rick: Yes sir

big boss: thank you rick, you have always served us well. Here have this bonus on us!

rick: pleasure doing business with you!

said by soldatenhund :

Actually it is a bad analogy. This very thing happened to a friend's football team. They were eating at a chinese buffet on Dundas just south of Erin Mills in Mississauga.

The owners told them to leave, they refused, he called the cops. The cops showed up and asked what the problem was after which he told the manager never to call him for that again and to let them finish eating.

If you advertise a service and then can't provide it, that is called false advertising and is a poorly constructed business model. You don't blame the consumer because YOU didn't believe , think it would be used to its fullest or more importantly plan on honouring your advertisement which oddly enough seems to be acceptable practice. Lie to people them blame them for following through on YOUR promise.

said by kinglou0 :

Bull crap, the most recent promotion(s) advertising high speed says unlimited. The commercial is the ones featuring the roommates who schedule their internet time because they 're on DSL. During the ad, Comcast mentions it being unlimited service.
If Comcast wants to be weasels, why don't they just start saying unlimited access not service?

said by At Work :

Huh? All this connectivity? That's what they're there for... Connectivity... Gone are the days of 1 computer in the house. Now people have multiple computers, Xboxes, iTunes, WoW, PSP, DS, and all the other network devices pulling data off of one home connection. This is the future. "Connectivity" is not a wonderous thing. It is a commodity, and the providers are scared that people think of it this way. It's not magic, nor is it special. Sorry "Comcast" Rick!

said by SkellBasher :

Not attempting to imply that Facebook or Youtube are going to suck multiple GB, but it's going to generate more than 'normal' text based traffic.

And you know as well as I do that there are perfectly legitimate and legal applications that can eat up a good chunk of bandwidth. I downloaded 4 different Linux ISOs last week alone so I could see which one I liked best on my new laptop. That's a significant chunk there. If I got a letter from Verizon, I would flip shit. I can't tell you how many different applications I pull down to try out on my Windows box, and how many times I run apt-get on the other box. It can add up quick. 300GB quick? No issues with someone getting dinged for that. It's a shitton.

I have no issues with providers rate limiting or policing the known P2P traffic streams. Hell, tell me that I can only use 20MB of P2P traffic a month, and I'm fine with that too. I can use other methods that aren't construed to be below board.

But heck man, if they want a usage limit, tell folks what it is BEFORE hand. Offer up a Comcast branded tool to monitor their home usage, consider it a value-add. Give people the TOOLS to help themselves, and I'd bet a lot of people would.