People should boycott Comcast and any other provider that imposes a cap on your internet service use. This is equivalent to the old PacBell charging you a monthly fee and then throttling your use of the phone. Consumers refused to tolerate that and yet they are rolling over in droves and accepting Comcast's ultimatum. Realize that down the road 250G will be nothing when you start viewing all TV, mail and movies and other video online. Comcast is doing this to destroy those third party services and force the consumer to buy movies, etc., from Comcast and only Comcast. If you refuse to boycott them then you should not whine your head off a year from now when Netflix, BlockBuster and the rest of the online movie services go out of business because of bandwidth capping.

People should boycott Comcast and any other provider that imposes a cap on your internet service use. This is equivalent to the old PacBell charging you a monthly fee and then throttling your use of the phone. Consumers refused to tolerate that and yet they are rolling over in droves and accepting Comcast's ultimatum. Realize that down the road 250G will be nothing when you start viewing all TV, mail and movies and other video online. Comcast is doing this to destroy those third party services and force the consumer to buy movies, etc., from Comcast and only Comcast. If you refuse to boycott them then you should not whine your head off a year from now when Netflix, BlockBuster and the rest of the online movie services go out of business because of bandwidth capping.

I would just love to, but seeing as I have two choices for high speed internet in my area, Comcast and BellSouth, I am SOL. I actually only have one choice, Comcast, now one block down the street...that's a different story, been that way for 8 years too. EIGHT fraking years and BellSouth has not gotten DSL on my block!

If I had another equivalent option, I would have already switched. I called and asked for a link to download an application to monitor my usage and I was told to look at the web address for more information which just repeated their usage policy. They were very nasty and I didn't argue with the cap - I just asked how to measure it. I am glad they are finally doing this. They also need to stop advertising themselves as unlimited Internet. There are very legitimate reasons why you could go over the limit like downloading Linux virtual machines or downloading HD videos from iTunes. And they have been disconnecting users without warning them and then banning them for a year from their service before they ever announced the limit.

On Verizon Fios now and have never looked back. F Comcast...

And I feel for all of you who dont have a choice!

After Jan 20th we all need to get on the phone to our Congressmen or write letters to them explaining how this isn't Comcast just managing it's traffic. The bandwidth cap is specifically targeted at their competitors in the video delivery market and this has to be nipped in the bud!

They can because just like others have said what are we going to do? USE QWEST DSL? FT! I'm just glad Comcast bought out Time Warner in this area... 250G sucks but 40G limit is insane! I agree with dmwalsh568. We need to band together to stop this c***. Cable companies have had this hold over us for years. Something needs to be done.

I wonder how many people complaining even come close to using 250GB a month.

I know, I know, it's the 'principle' of the thing.

As for video, if a HD TV show goes at 1GB, you're talking 250 shows in a one month period. If you're downloading that much, you might want to think of spending some cash on a dish and a TV set.

I'm glad they are providing a bandwidth tracker. That way people can't complain they don't know how much they are using.

I have no problem with the limit. 250GB is a lot of data- and I also realize that bandwidth is a finite resource. This is a good way to limit it.