Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| caps... 5GB is just BS for a broadband connection.. sure it makes sense on cell phones... but on a cable connection where you can pull potentially 30MB a day just having the modem sit online taking ICMP and Routing packets... thats 900MB right there out of your 5GB cap... (I let my Comcast modem sit idle with just a router connected for 2 days and it pulled almost 55MB of just routing packets! ARP, ICMP, etc...) 250GB is a good cap that way you can still download your windows updates, watch some streaming videos, download some apps, download some demos on PSN or XBOX live... get a few Wii VC games.. I mean people DO use the internet for more then browsing... heck even just browsing in a a browser with 4 people in a family actively using the internet here we get about a gig a day of web usage... now days websites are complex with tons of images and multimedia... its not the day of 5K website pages anymore |
Reviews:
·Comcast
| Heck I just checked our usage logs for the last two months... we've never survive on a 5GB plan... and this is just a 4 person family doing standard web browsing every day, some streaming videos, some RDP from work to home (remote desktop connection) and VoIP
Jun 2008 Down 44.14 GB Up 3.48 GB Total 47.62 GB
May 2008 Down 42.99 GB Up 3.92 GB Total 46.91 GB
and most of that "up" bandwidth according to the logs is ARP packets, ACK's and ICMP data... not sure why comcast sends so much ARP data out but its a constant never ending 1 to 3KB stream of it, from what I can tell |
