Time Warner Cable, Comcast Flounder in Consumer Reports Survey → Re: no caps for comcast yet

I am not a Comcast customer but it is my understanding that the caps are typically 300 GB, depending on the area. Even if I was a Comcast customer, the caps would not impact my current habits; however, I disagree with the caps on a principle level.

- 1mbps (125KB/s) sustained for an entire month will exceed Comcast caps
- Today's heavy user is tomorrow's normal user
- If they want to do usage based billing, I suggest they do 95th percentile - those that use less pay less; those that use more pay more (FAT chance)
- Caps are nothing more than a tool to introduce artificial scarcity and to provide additional streams of revenue on top of already high monthly rates

Can you watch Netflix 24/7? I could do Pandora for background music though I would submit it isn't a full mbit stream 1 mbit works out to around 100KB/sec - a T1 is 1.544 Mbit and I see peak of 140KB/sec on that. TCP has some overhead as well as ethernet.

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to ask me. Assuming I could and did, and assuming the 3mbit (there are much higher rates) stream quality, I would hit nearly a TB worth of data in a 30 day month. If you have several family members that watch a lot of Netflix, it's not difficult at all to imagine a young tech savvy family exceeding a 300 GB cap from Netflix usage alone.

In addition to the above, you're now entering an age where digital game downloads are relatively normal, backup solutions are becoming normal, people stream music, and much more.

I work from home and my girlfriend lives with me. We don't partake in much media consumption at all, so our overall usage isn't that high. A normal month for my house is 150-200 GB.