Comcast 50Mbps Coming To Florida > What's the point!

What's the point!

Why is the assumption that everybody that gets this service will download and upload the Library of Congress on the daily basis? Good chance a lot of people that get this will not all of a sudden change their internet habits just be happy that what they choose to do with their connection is just faster.
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The thing is, unless Comcast and VZ are going to get into a little bit of a price war, the people buying the connections at $150, or even $100, per month are going to be the ones wanting to do heavy downloading on it. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that those customers would AVERAGE 100GB+ per month. Maybe even 150. Granted, that's lower than the 250GB cap they're talking about right now, but when you're paying for that fast of a connection you're going to use it!

It's sort of like when you move from dialup to broadband...moivng from a "normal" cable subscription to this one is similar in magnitude, but more different price-wise. Lsst I checked I'm on the internet more, transferring more data, doing more stuff, on my lowly 512/256 fraudband connection than I was on 32k dialup...

reply to caco
I think the point is, they are punishing the rest of us that don't abuse the network, by implementing the caps to discourage the 1 percent that do abuse the network (a relative term, no specific GB figures). It's the principle of the matter. If they are interested in customer service, as the next dslreports article suggests, maybe they should go to bat for us, do not implement caps, and immediately terminate those that abuse the system. Nah they'd rather implement across the board caps, despite network upgrades, to 50 mbps or whatever. Oh wait, posters were recently screaming that Comcast was imposing "invisible" caps, and they should tell us what they are. Maybe we are in fact getting what we asked for. Well, I didn't ask for it.