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PC Magazine Discovers Comcast Caps
'Comcast and I are not on speaking terms...'

PC Magazine is the latest mainstream technology magazine to discover Comcast's invisible download caps, which we've been discussing here for the better part of a decade (last month it was the Boston Globe who awoke to the issue). The report repeats commonly voiced concerns that Comcast customers who download too much face disconnection, but aren't told what the limit is and often have difficulty getting consistent answers from the company. The customer in the report has been blogging about his complaints.


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dadkins
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MVM
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dadkins

MVM

Ok people, one last time...

Comcast is huge.
Comcast has a shitload of markets.
My market can likely handle 300+GB per month per sub.
Your market may be able to handle 500+GB per month per sub.
Someone else's market may onle be able to handle 200GB per sub.

So, do you, possibly being in a market that can handle 500GB per sub, REALLY want Comcast to set a fair(for *ALL SUBS*) cap at say - 150GB per month?

So much for your ability to download 500GB, huh?
Screw *MY* 300GB per munth, but that's ok, right?
We *ALL* now get to have a lowballed cap, regardless of what our markets can actually handle.

Oh yeah, that make a whole lot of sense! NOT!

Look, here is what a SMART Comcast Residential HSI customer would do...
Set your own damn limits!
If, by only by reading of these cutoff threads, you can assertain that the "AVERAGE" is 200-300GB per month...
DUH!!!

Don't allow yourself to surpass 300GB per month!

*IF* you still get "The Call", why not just do as asked and CUT BACK and get on with your life?

No, y'all want to have a stated cap.
Never have any of you thought that Comcast(in their INFINITE wisdom) might set it WAY lower than what you previously were able to download.

Here is something that y'all are missing too -
What if... *I* wanted to download 300GB one month?
Now, with that lowballed STATED CAP, I'm boned?

Not only did you all screw yourselves, ya screwd everyone else!

Main thing I'm concerned about, ya just screwqed *ME*!

Do you know what "Fuck all That!" means?

If y'all get your way, we may end up another Rogers!

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So, lets look at this one last time:

Inviso-cap @ 200-300(average).
Or
Stated cap @ 100-150(to be fair to everyone).

Even my neighbor's 3 year old could figure this one out...