Comments on: Comcast blasts out excessive use policy e-mail

By: jimbob

jimbob — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:31:37 +0000

anybody know if they use the real GB or if they could be sued on the same grounds that people sued hdd manufacturers.

By: Jack Amber

Jack Amber — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:09:46 +0000

Earthlink failed so I switched to Comcast-bad move! I have a Mac and use Apple Mail which I learned after the fact is not supported by Comcast. Also the phone connection is intermittent. I’m switching to AT&T.

Jack

By: saumaun

saumaun — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:23:43 +0000

I posted this on their forums just now… I wonder what’s going to happen to me!

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Outrageous. I simply cannot comprehend anything around this new 250GB cap.

So… now there’s a limit on the internet? Are we not paying you enough? Now you have to go and limit the amount people can use their connections.

Oh, I forgot that you guys are sooo poor that you cannot afford to upgrade your network! So its OUR problem that you cannot meet the demand for bandwidth.

I see you don’t offer any tools to have customers monitor their bandwidth usage… And this load of **bleep** is going into effect in October? So you are putting a limit on something, but we don’t know where we are in regards to that limit.
Smart!

99% of your customers aren’t going near 250GB? Oh, so you’re OVERCHARGING 99% of your customers!

You don’t interfere with P2P traffic… You just send reset packets to make the connection drop. I get it!

Also, running a business T1 line at FULL CAPACITY FOR A MONTH doesn’t equal 250GB?
IDIOTS! DO THE MATH!
T1 capacity: 1.544 Mbps
1.544/8 = .193 MBps
.193MBps x 60 seconds = 11.58 MBpm
11.58 MBpm x 60 minutes = 694.8 MBph
694.8 MBph x 24 hours = 16675.2 MB per day
16675.2 MBpd x 30 days = 500256 MB per month
500256 MBpM / 1024 MB = 488.53125 GIGABYTES PER MONTH

I REALLY hope that a class-action lawsuit is filed against you guys. You have no idea what doors you are opening for other ISP’s.

I thought you learned your lesson from the FCC… Perhaps another reprimand is in order.

By: j j

j j — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:49:12 +0000

Time to dump Comcast, greedy bastards. I am looking elsewhere.

By: JASON

JASON — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:15:28 +0000

This is stupid
i use around 1-2 TB a month just downloading….

i guess everyone should get ready for the comcast boycott sites!!

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:44:18 +0000

And to make it fully ComCrapTastic, here is what the web page they refer you to says about how you can find out how much service you’ve used:

Q: How does Comcast help its customers track their usage so they can avoid exceeding the limit?

There are many online tools customers can download and use to measure their consumption. Customers can find such tools by simply doing a Web search – for example, a search for “bandwidth meter” will provide some options. Customers using multiple PCs should just be aware that they will need to measure and combine their total monthly usage in order to identify the data usage for their entire account.

In other words, err… they DON’T. You can’t find out how much bandwidth you’ve used unless you have a single PC in your home that communicates only with Comcast. I have an Apple Macbook and an Apple Airport Extreme, the Macbook resets its network counters every time I close it to take it to work and the Airport Extreme has no network counters, so Comcast’s response to me? The middle finger. Up the a$$, long and hard.

Comcast “service”. What a stallion does to a mare. Alrighty, then!

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:53:08 +0000

Notice they only talk about standard definition movies.

This is a strategy to force HD movie downloaders to pay up for all that “excessive” bandwidth they will be using.

Comcast thinks people are clueless and will swallow this baloney whole. Bandwidth is growing faster than use. There is no real degradation of other people’s “user experience.” It’s all propaganda with a long term (greedy) purpose.