[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Thompson Freeman]

On 09/06/2008 07:18:04 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> 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.

Which is part of the reason that in the eight or nine years I have had 
a cell phone I have yet to sign a long term agreement. I realize that I 
probably wind up paying more for the service, and I certainly have to 
pay cash for the equipment, but I _don't_ have that pesky termination 
clause.