said by IowaCowboy:If most of that traffic is from streaming video and Comcast goes to usage based video, then it would make more economic sense to subscribe to a cable or satellite video service.
I use about 35 GB per month between several Macs and several iOS devices. My video comes in through a DirecTV Slimline 5 SWM dish and with better video quality than Comcast's video offering.
In my opinion, video is best delivered through its own pipe as you don't have issues with buffering or bogging down your neighbors connection.
A lot of mine is video, but it's not video from networks like NBC, CNN, Comedy Central, etc. It's amateur video or video from friends accounting for a large majority of it. The rest of the bandwidth video usage is 1 hr of video daily from the South Korean tv network my roommate watches by subscribing to their online thing.
If I could say that I like to watch shows then I could subscribe to a bigger tv package and say wow I cut down 300GB from video I watch on the Internet through my ondemand tv feature but that's not the case at all in my situation as I'm not a very heavy TV show watcher. If the cap wasn't raised and we can't get another plan then we could consider a business plan if the caps are unlimited. It hasn't come to that but one of these days Comcast might implement their caps.