[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Scott Castaline]

Pat Regan wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
>> How does one know when they reach their limit? Are there any sftwe out 
>> there that meters an individuals traffic volume (up & down) readily 
>> available to the typical end user? Or are you subject to what the 
>> provider says is your amount of traffic without any recourse? If the 
>> move is for the industry to place individual caps then shouldn't they 
>> provide some sort of client metering so that the user could self monitor 
>> where they are in the scale of traffic load and available left. Also if 
>> you only use 125GB for the month will the left over 125GB roll-over? 
>> That would allow the next month 375GB, I don't think so. Back to client 
>> metering sftwe, if the ISP is obligated to provide it for free (as I 
>> think they should) are we back to the same ole crap of M$ support only 
>> so anyone else is at the mercy of the ISP? Oh well I hope this reply 
>> doesn't get anyone cut off because they went over their limit.
> 
> You don't know when you reach your limit unless you track it yourself.
> The vast majority of customers are unaffected.  Comcast just wants a
> clear reason to cut off the people who are taxing their network.
> They've been cutting off heavy users for a very long time already.  The
> only change is that it is actually now specifically quantified in the
> terms of service.
> 
> Why don't we complain about this kind of metering on our cell phones?  :)
>
I have, obviously it didn't do any good. Answer from big cell company? 
Go somewhere else, oh by the way you have 18 months left of your 2 year 
obligation that would have to be paid up.

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