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Sorry to reply to myself, but apparently users are not reading what is posted on the dslr site itself:
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Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees [388] commentsComcast is raising the white flag of surrender. Invoking a 250GB download cap, and overage fees signals exactly what I've been posting: Comcast's network is screwed and will never, on the average, be able to support HDTV demand and HSI demand simultaneously.
Now, how many users actually download 250GB in a month? I consider myself to be a 'good' P2P user, and I download no more than about 25GB, if that, per month.
This announcement by Comcast is nothing more than scare tactics to reduce, by implied threat, if nothing else, fractional download and upload traffic to keep their crippled networks as free as possible for their own use for HD movies (Cable TV will not support HD movie downloads to any extent) and other proprietary services (read: proprietary = cost plus charges).
This is a de facto admission by Comcast that their average network cannot support Docsis3 on HSI or any additional HDTV channels on the cable TV segment.
Comcast hasn't the ability to garner the billions of dollars of investment to make Docsis3 and 100 HDTV channels a corporate reality. I maintain, through all of the ojectors, that this announcement of a "possible" plan proves what I have been trying to get across on DSLR.
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