Bandwidth Caps
Posted on September 1st, 2008 at 6:33 amOkay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the bandwidth can add up fast. While I have not as of yet done a system wide check of the bandwidth I use monthly, I do have yearly total on this machine one that sits in the living room and has very little use beyond downloading mail and some chatting and surfing. The Grand total for that is 20 gigs for the year. Not much you say but this is not a work machine it downloads no iso’s and I test a lot of different Linux distro’s in a month, not to mention the podcasts and other downloads I have on other machines. Should the providers be thinking caps at all? After all they are the ones that advertise the fast download rates they offer, the advantages of using them to download the huge DVD movies that you can now get online yeah one of those is over 7 gigs by itself , and you see how the providers offer everything under the sun to get users and then they stab the users in the back and enforce a cap for the right to use the services that they themselves have offered. While I understand that business has to make money and there is nothing wrong with that concept it is the idea of offering somethings and and once they have the users the tell them no no you use them too darn well. Will we all be under caps before long or is Comcast once again just playing bully to it’s customers? Don’t forget they have been caught more than once using unethical methods to cap users. I for one am glad I don’t have comcast and I hope I never will. Well I am off the soapbox of now and I hope that I will never have to deal with this issue in my time. Baldy
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