250GB is a huge amount of data. It's hard to download that much data in a month.

Though, I'm sure the throttling is not going to be well received; and it shouldn't be.

I'd rather the cap be lower and they charge heavy users extra, and use those charges to invest in more infrastructure. Then they'll be able to raise the caps over time, as user demands increase.

Glad I don't have them. What if I'm running an mp3 stream out of my house? Now I'd have to calculate what I'm allowed to do. Or they'd probably want to switch me to some professional higher rate thing. They remind me of themselves about twice a week with a new flyer in my mailbox. That's been going on for at least two years. We must have received a few hundred so far and it is a household observation of how much we get from them. If they had only put that money into the bandwidth instead.

Being that i work from home for a Multimeida company and can push that in under a month between work and 5 home users. That would hit me hard. I am constantly pulling files that are 1Gig off our servers for testing. Did 70 GB overnight and doing another 50-60 GB today. Heck 2 hrs of MPEG2 HD conent is 9 gigs. It wouldn't take me long to over fill that amount of data. Now mind you i am not a typical user but for those of us working at home that pull lots of data, this would be bad.

If they really wanted to knock out most P2P traffic, while still allowing "legitimate" downloads of movies and TV shows, they'd throttle, cap, and/or charge more for UPSTREAM traffic. It's all well to say that P2P has legitimate use, but you, I, and everyone else knows that's NOT why most people use it.

By my rough calculations, playing a 128k streaming radio station for 8 hours a day would come out to about 110 gig a month.

Toss in web pages and youtube and email and gaming, and if they hold to a flexible top end, that might be tolerable. Not exactly the "unlimited" we signed up for, but it's a pretty decent amount.

I've always wondered just how much bandwidth is consumed by games like WoW and EQ and CS (not updating, just playing).

The only reason I am a customer is because there is no other high speed internet service available to me. In fact, I was once a FiOS customer but moved to an area where FiOS was not available. FiOS had consistently high speeds, always better then 10Mb/s, but usually close to the service I was paying for of 15Mb/s. Your service, on the other hand, rarely, if ever, gets to the 8Mb/s service you charge me for which tends to come in at 4ish Mb/s. And to top if all off, the FiOS service was much less expensive than your service. Please be aware that as soon as FiOS becomes available to me, I will be terminating my service with you. Instantly.

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Uploads are already capped. Until a couple months ago, 384Kbps was the fastest you could go up. I'm glad the upload speed cap was move to about 1Mbps because now I can actually host a Gears of War room on my connection without someone lagging out.

Not everyone who wants faster upload speeds wants it to share pirated content. :\

"Not everyone who wants faster upload speeds wants it to share pirated content. :\"

Agreed. The only big things I download is free software or software I bought. I don't do any near 250 mb a month, but I don't like to have it limited because I will have to measure it somehow.

Been with Comcast for 4 years.

Cancelled Comcast 8/21/2008, Verizon FIOS installed 8/28/2008.

These tactics are just plain ugly, the sooner people get away from Comcast the better off everyone will be.