Apparently Comcast hasn't heard of Mozy who offers Unlimited backup space for home users for just $4.95/month?
The only advantage I can see is that Comcast decides to exclude this new backup service from caps, but then you have a problem with net neutrality since their own service would have an advantage over Mozy who would be subject to caps.
I use Mozy personally and for a couple of our smaller offices and I have been very pleased with them
I can understand Comcast attempting to find ways to commit the customers to their service to make it more difficult for anyone to change services when and if suitable competition arrives, but this just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
More likely they just had the resources available and decided to create a low cost service (to implement and maintain at least) that can only make them money.
reply to boilermaker123 I am sure Comcast has heard of Mozy, but if you come to DSLReports regularly then you are not a "normal" Comcast customer. The average customer is not nearly so well informed and will often take the easy way out of a technical problem, which is exactly what Comcast is providing. Those of us who are a little more tech saavy get way more bang for the same buck.
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