Comcast To Launch Online Backup Service > Caps?

Caps?

I can access my Linksys NAS200 from anywhere in the world. With two 500g drives and the unit itself, I paid just under $300.

What I would really like to see Comcast do is provide the darn bandwidth meter they said would be done this month.

P.S. Dear Comcast, January ends in nine days. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

Offsite backup storage has definite advantages. Your NAS can be stolen from a physical location, or a fire can burn down the building. Servers sitting in a data center are protected and the chances of them burning up or walking away are slim.

reply to JazzJRabbit
Wait.. wait wait wait WAIT a minute..

What is the party line here anyway?

The other day, people were crying that CDV wouldn't be traffic shaped (which I agree with) becuase it's a competing service to other VoIP providers. ugh.

Now, they offer an online back up service and it WILL be part of the traffic shape and people are wondering why?

Perfect time to answer the question.. what do you want comcast to do? This is getting absurd..

Comcast is a provider of services. They offer TELEVISION, first, then Internet and now phone. They are primarily hard line services. If people here had their choice, comcast would only be an internet provider, nothing more. (And I know this is a little off your particular post, but I think it's appropriate here at this point)

I've heard arguments about people saying that their Internet caps are in place to protect their televisions service.. um.. duh? When did their TV service take a back seat to everything else? Comcast was in the phone business BEFORE they were in the internet business, and again, the internet should take front row seat over the other lines. (Yes, CDV is new and they have ramped up their phone service as of late, but it doesn't matter)

What it sounds like here, to me, on BBR, is that Internet is a drug and they are addicted.. touch their drug and they freak out.

It just doesn't seem that ANY provider out there is going to be able to win even if they try to lose. Maybe it's time for people to just take a bit of a chill pill for a bit and realize that they can't have it all ways.

Yes, people MAY go over their caps on this service, if they use it stupid. This service is also not likely for everyone out there, and it certainly doesn't have to bee for everyone.

Not everyone wants to use a hard drive as back up, not everyone wants to use online back ups, not everyone wants to use a CD/DVD, or as one said "Cassette tapes".. what's even worse is when people come here crying for options and choice and then on the other cheek cry foul and call some of these choices that people may want, "stupid" or "outdated" or "ineffective".. becuase it's not the way THEY'D do or want to do it.