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sturmvogel6
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Re: Bandwidth Limits/Congestion Management - All discussion here

said by JohnInSJ:
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now it is heavily limited
1/4 of a TB is not "heavily limited".

For which I am paying 1/25000 of a million dollars. Using divisions of larger units works both ways.

IPPlanMan
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said by JohnInSJ:
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now it is heavily limited
1/4 of a TB is not "heavily limited".

They will always root out the heavy users, as those are customers they don't make money on. They're in this for the money, or did you not know that? ......

What other options are available for you? Seriously.
1/4 of a TB is becoming more and more limited...

They'd make money if they switched to metered billing.... and that would show that they're in it for the money. Because what the cap does is it keeps other sources of media like iTunes/Apple TV, Sling Box, NetFlix Streaming, etc. from grabbing any kind of real foothold since Comcast doesn't make money on them. I mean jeez... it's not hard to use up 1GB of bandwidth on an iChat conference while you're downloading something from the iTunes store. So all of your hypothetical bandwidth calculations don't take things like that into account. It's a glaring omission in my opinion.

What other options?... Fios.... hopefully soon.
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said by JohnInSJ:

Seriously, why would you expect it to get worse?
It's getting worse everyday.... the cap is the same and files are getting larger. New technology like the SlingBox/Apple TV/NetFlix Streaming/Vonage comes out and oh look at that... the cap is still 250GB.

funchords
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said by JohnInSJ:
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The cap has officially been at 250GB since October 1st of last year...
Wow... nearly 6 months... it will NEVER change!

Check back in a year. It will be higher.
Care to put some money on that prediction, John? (I have no inside knowledge.)

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It'll change someday
but with the others putting is rock bottom caps they might lower it not raise it

lets hope verizon stays uncapped so that its a bad idea to lower the cap for Comcast