[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Adrin]

You realize that you just admitted to something that I am sure Comcast
wouldn't care for?


On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:57 -0400, Forsaken wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:59:29 -0400
> Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> 
> > When 4-8 gig movie downloads become commonplace enough and their
> > network gets upgraded they will be very likely to raise the caps.
> > Why would they pay to upgrade a network to a point that no one could
> > use it?  It will just take competition, and they will start to have
> > that in a few years.
> 
> I don't think it's unreasonable for a single person. Usage patterns
> differ, but yeah, you have to work at it to transfer that much data in
> a single month if you're the only one on the link. But again, for
> families, this is going to not be nice. I share a comcast link with two
> other folks, and ever since I saw this announcement hit, I tossed Cacti
> up on a box to start keeping track of the links aggregate bandwidth
> usage, and it's... interesting. I didn't start it soon enough last
> month to really get an accurate reading of whether or not we'd hit the
> cap, but if the average daily usage for that time period held true,
> then we would have fallen just short of it. 
> 
> I also don't allow much bittorrent traffic to cross the link, I set QoS
> up to allow a max of 100k through, and I'm also a firewall nazi, so no
> using alternate ports to get around it.
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