What do you think happens when I go over the Comcast monthly limit?

So I installed a plugin for my router(pfsense freebsd distro goodness :D) called BandWidthD(for nerds, you know d means daemon :D)

Anyway that isn't important but what is:

Well just look at it :P

Comcast has a 250 gigabyte limit per month, do you think they will enforce it?

Wow.. I'm disgusted that a landline cable provider has a bandwidth limit. I used to live in the Philadelphia area, and Comcast didn't have one then.. Things are going backwards when it comes to internet providers. Verizon Wireless used to have unlimited data usage on their broadband aircards, now for the last couple of years there's a 5GB limit. Feel lucky you get 250Gigs, I can't get cable or dsl here so I'm stuck tethering my phone to my computer for a 5GB per month limit.

Wow.. I'm disgusted that a landline cable provider has a bandwidth limit. I used to live in the Philadelphia area, and Comcast didn't have one then.. Things are going backwards when it comes to internet providers. Verizon Wireless used to have unlimited data usage on their broadband aircards, now for the last couple of years there's a 5GB limit. Feel lucky you get 250Gigs, I can't get cable or dsl here so I'm stuck tethering my phone to my computer for a 5GB per month limit.

hartsickdiscipl

Comcast doesn't say anything unless you go over the bandwidth limit two months in a row. If you do it for a third month they will cancel your contract and you have to sign up for business services with them or a different ISP.

I've been curious about this myself so I've asked around quite a bit. My information is apocryphal so take it with a grain of salt, but the consistent story I get is that you do have to exceed the bandwidth twice before you get cut off. The first time you'll get a warning. Small business class doesn't eliminate the cap but it does increase it to 500, but this may vary by area.

As for ISP caps, 250 isn't too bad. Pretty much all ISPs have a cap regardless of whether or not they advertise it. If you peg your connection to the point that it impacts their service offering, they'll tell you.

-Byshop

agree with byshop

my buddy has comcast in maryland and he even showed me the website for it and we couldn't find any evidence of a cap. He downloaded like 350gb last month and they didn't do anything.

Bandwidth limits are everywhere in the city I live in. I have 250gb myself on my DSL. On cable it was rediculous last year. 3 people paying $74 a month for 16mbps/1mbps + 100gb dl/ul

JigglyWiggly what do you do to get close to the limit? I'll admit my noobishness in this. I have the same limit here in Denver and I'd like to know what it takes to get to that number. I've never got a warning and I don't know what my number is but I'm curious. I read when I first learned of this that it was a hard number to get to for most people.

JigglyWiggly what do you do to get close to the limit? I'll admit my noobishness in this. I have the same limit here in Denver and I'd like to know what it takes to get to that number. I've never got a warning and I don't know what my number is but I'm curious. I read when I first learned of this that it was a hard number to get to for most people.

Rickylee

Torrents. Legal torrents, JigglyWiggly_

Oh and random downloads. 0% is on porn. JigglyWiggly_

Meh, just switch to another company. X360PS3AMD05

I don't mean to dive to deep in politics here, but if you typically vote for Republicans you can blame yourself if you don't like these bandwidth limits as it's the Republicans who are fighting net neutrality which would eliminate this shaddy practice among many other things.

I don't mean to dive to deep in politics here, but if you typically vote for Republicans you can blame yourself if you don't like these bandwidth limits as it's the Republicans who are fighting net neutrality which would eliminate this shaddy practice among many other things.

zipozal

-Byshop

[QUOTE="zipozal"]

I don't mean to dive to deep in politics here, but if you typically vote for Republicans you can blame yourself if you don't like these bandwidth limits as it's the Republicans who are fighting net neutrality which would eliminate this shaddy practice among many other things.

Byshop

-Byshop

I don't mean to dive to deep in politics here, but if you typically vote for Republicans you can blame yourself if you don't like these bandwidth limits as it's the Republicans who are fighting net neutrality which would eliminate this shaddy practice among many other things.

zipozal

I've been curious about this myself so I've asked around quite a bit. My information is apocryphal so take it with a grain of salt, but the consistent story I get is that you do have to exceed the bandwidth twice before you get cut off. The first time you'll get a warning. Small business class doesn't eliminate the cap but it does increase it to 500, but this may vary by area.

As for ISP caps, 250 isn't too bad. Pretty much all ISPs have a cap regardless of whether or not they advertise it. If you peg your connection to the point that it impacts their service offering, they'll tell you.

-Byshop

Byshop

[QUOTE="Byshop"]

I've been curious about this myself so I've asked around quite a bit. My information is apocryphal so take it with a grain of salt, but the consistent story I get is that you do have to exceed the bandwidth twice before you get cut off. The first time you'll get a warning. Small business class doesn't eliminate the cap but it does increase it to 500, but this may vary by area.

As for ISP caps, 250 isn't too bad. Pretty much all ISPs have a cap regardless of whether or not they advertise it. If you peg your connection to the point that it impacts their service offering, they'll tell you.

-Byshop

Makari

Business class most certainly definitely eliminates the cap in my city - SF Bay Area. I've got that in writing from the local Comcast reps. Besides that, we've got locations that are backing up quite a bit of data per day and would probably be tripling or quadrupling the 500GB cap, with no issues so far. :) Any kind of cap does really annoy me, though - it seems to be a result of the companies overselling the connections they offer. Either they have the infrastructure to offer x number of people y amount of bandwidth, or they don't - and if they don't, they have to start resorting to caps and the like to cover the shortcomings of their own network.Makari

The bay area has greater resources available in this department for obvious reaasons. :)

-Byshop

[QUOTE="Makari"] Business class most certainly definitely eliminates the cap in my city - SF Bay Area. I've got that in writing from the local Comcast reps. Besides that, we've got locations that are backing up quite a bit of data per day and would probably be tripling or quadrupling the 500GB cap, with no issues so far. :) Any kind of cap does really annoy me, though - it seems to be a result of the companies overselling the connections they offer. Either they have the infrastructure to offer x number of people y amount of bandwidth, or they don't - and if they don't, they have to start resorting to caps and the like to cover the shortcomings of their own network.Byshop

The bay area has greater resources available in this department for obvious reaasons. :)

-Byshop

Depends on where you are. In areas with modern infrastructure, Comcast doesn't enforce these limits.

I'm sure I've done over ~300GB combined up+down some months. Never heard a peep out of Comcast.

Depends on where you are. In areas with modern infrastructure, Comcast doesn't enforce these limits.

I'm sure I've done over ~300GB combined up+down some months. Never heard a peep out of Comcast.

Velocitas8

[QUOTE="zipozal"]

I don't mean to dive to deep in politics here, but if you typically vote for Republicans you can blame yourself if you don't like these bandwidth limits as it's the Republicans who are fighting net neutrality which would eliminate this shaddy practice among many other things.

markop2003

Well you are right in the fact that you could have Net Neutrality legislation without removing the caps, but the legislation the Democrats have been pushing does in fact make bandwidth caps illegal.

Get Verizon FIOS. No cap what so ever as far as I know.

Get Verizon FIOS. No cap what so ever as far as I know.

sleepingzzz

And currently available in 16 outta 50 states...

-Byshop

Get Verizon FIOS. No cap what so ever as far as I know.

sleepingzzz

Get Verizon FIOS. No cap what so ever as far as I know.

sleepingzzz

I wish I could.

It's available nearby, but not at my exact location -_-

be happy with your 250GB....i just looked my cable internet up (U.S. cable) and i have a 50GB limit lol.....

I'm sure i've gone over that before and so far they havn't enforced it...but the moment they try to i'm switching over to comcast :P

why the heck would you need to download that huge chunk of data in a month!? 250gb. and that includes no illegal stuff from torrent and porn.

why the heck would you need to download that huge chunk of data in a month!? 250gb. and that includes no illegal stuff from torrent and porn.

chapman86

Downloads are more than just what you right click in Firefox and select Save As. Everything you view on the web adds to your traffic count. Youtube, game video reviews, Netflix "Watch It Now" streaming video, etc. Just because your hard drive isn't losing 250gb of free space every month doesn't mean you aren't using your availble bandwidth.

-Byshop

be happy with your 250GB....i just looked my cable internet up (U.S. cable) and i have a 50GB limit lol.....

I'm sure i've gone over that before and so far they havn't enforced it...but the moment they try to i'm switching over to comcast :P

willx10121013

[QUOTE="Makari"] Business class most certainly definitely eliminates the cap in my city - SF Bay Area. I've got that in writing from the local Comcast reps. Besides that, we've got locations that are backing up quite a bit of data per day and would probably be tripling or quadrupling the 500GB cap, with no issues so far. :) Any kind of cap does really annoy me, though - it seems to be a result of the companies overselling the connections they offer. Either they have the infrastructure to offer x number of people y amount of bandwidth, or they don't - and if they don't, they have to start resorting to caps and the like to cover the shortcomings of their own network.Byshop

The bay area has greater resources available in this department for obvious reaasons. :)

-Byshop

I had heard that about Enterprise business customers, but are you referring to retail biz customers (i.e. one step up from home class service)?

-Byshop

I had heard that about Enterprise business customers, but are you referring to retail biz customers (i.e. one step up from home class service)?

-Byshop

Byshop

Not interested in phone or cable tv so this might work well for me. I'll have to inquire. Thanks for the info.

-Byshop