comcast officially blocking bandwith Oct., 1st
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26444853/



everyone will have a 250gb limit per month and no one is really sure how it will effect sales yet. Verizon will move to a similar plan by the end of the year.This includes uploads and downloads

I see sales for dsl goin up lol also glad I didnt start embedding videos

doucebags never heard of "neighbors open network"

Explain about embedding videos. How does that matter for you?

lol 250gb. thats hilarious. up here in canada the most we can get (with rogers at least) is 95gb with the 'extreme' package.

comcast can't afford to build out their network, they spent all their money on this office building
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/...c828ef.jpg?v=0

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Well considering I have two paysites and was thinking about going from downloading to embedding my members area. If bw now has a roof for the surfer.When they watch it on their own hard drive they arent eating into their 250gig.

Surely it will not effect any sales, but it most certainly will affect sales. I hope they don't have a monopoly in areas. Would suck for people to get stuck and have that as the only option. 250 GB isn't really all that much for a month.

Up in Canada, Rogers instituted a 60 gig/month cap for regular highspeed users and 90 gig/month for high end high speed internet. Last month, I used 1300 gigs in usage. I'm going nuts right now.
WG

do you guys have other high speed options up there like dsl?

if you dont mind how much is overage charges?

Dam dude, your in deep shit there.

But you know what the worst thing is?

I can't get any catchup in your fucking restaurants!!!!!!! :1orglaugh

Listen up all you americanos, if you go to Canada and order french fries then you
better have some catchup in your pocket or get used to gravy with you fries.


And another thing:

You gotta take out a home equity loan to be able to afford a carton of smokes.
Fuck dying from cancer you'll just die from sticker shock on a pack of cigs.


And another thing :

I like round assed Canadian girls with cowboys hats during Stampeed in Calgary.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Are they enforcing it yet?

lmao....

from forbes

http://www.forbes.com/technology/200...idcontent.html

You can get some unlimited package using dsl and Tek savy

http://www.teksavvy.com/en/resdsl.asp?ID=9&mID=1

I imagine this is an attempt by Comcast to wean users away from file sharing through torrents and other p2p apps.

They still have to download it either way. If they have it on there hard drive they might not come back for more, so they don't waste there bandwidth. I think that was the point

my neighbor has, with gusto !:1orglaugh She even came over once and asked me why my internet was down

Did you get a blowjob as payment for her illegally stealing your cable? :1orglaugh

Your actual response is have they not heard of theft?
Ya that will stop them from putting limits on the majority of the honest people.

They will lose no business. 250GB is more than almost anyone uses. People who do actually use it are 99% doing illegal things, and costing them money. Losing those customer (if even possible, where are they going to move to!?) will SAVE them money.

nothing to do with that.. they want to update their capacity as little as possible so they can increase their profit margins...

They even stated this will effect less than 1% of their clients. You guys are really showing your lack of knowledge in this thread. 250Gb / month is 8.4Gb per day. No one does that kind of transfer. If you had Sirius running, at it's highest bit rate, every second of every day for 30 days - it would only be 40 Gb. To go through that much with torrents. It would be roughly 125 movies every single month. Or 375-625 TV Shows per month.

Most people don't even have enough drive space to last more than a month or two at that rate. Seriously, get your heads out of your asses. The sky is not falling.

:1orglaugh the thought did cross my mind . ...not . I guess you would have to see her.

Telus is way better

Bell is worse

I'd switch to Telus and make sure I told Roger's the reason I was switching :2 cents:

Whaaat? That's 1.8 gigs every hour, Over 4,000 KB every second. How the fuck is that even possible?

:thumbsup

maybe a quick titty fuck though:winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Bing, bing we have a winner! But, here's a thought...what if they wanted to take it one step further and control all video content, even legal content, online?

Hell in Aus/Nz its usually a 30-40gig cap, and you either pay for overage (we pay $10 per 5 gig), or you get your speed lowered to just over dialup.

Having a cap of 250gig would be an absolute dream !!!

You are an Idiot. I could get into the details more but it's simply not worth the time.:2 cents:

I was thinking the exact same thing.:2 cents::pimp

Even downloading 40 movies a month.... I like the Forbes reference, they clearly don't know what they are talking about... 2Gb for a movie? No. 700 Mb for a movie that's been re-encoded DixV or 4.4-4.7Gb for a DVDR rip. Downloaders are either going after one format or another, but not both. 10Mb per pic? Good lord, I know a lot of people who have cameras, and only one or two who has the ability to send pics at that resolution (DSLR), everyone else, well it's around 3-4 megs a pic.

Either way, bottom line is 250Gb a month is plenty even for illegal purposes. But then again, once the dust settles from this move, they will lower it to 200Gb and so on and so forth until the Comcast portal and the streaming available there will be the only options available.

NO CAPS here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYy

Verizon and Optonline are in such firece competition they keep on uppping the pipelines n such

yayyyyyyyyyyyy

What do you mean?

Yet. Besides, it is one thing to make it faster, doesn't mean they won't cap the amount, especially if the see everyone else doing it.

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

This will only effect 1% and it's by design. If they did what they wanted and effected 30% of their customers all at once, it would be a huge issue.

They start at 250 gigs then slowly dial it back over time.

It's the same way they launched this whole thing, there have been press releases all year long about download caps. The first one got all kinds of press, now when it actually happens, it's barely news.

If you have any experience working with PR, you know these things are all planned out well in advance to lessen the blow.

I promise you the cap will be well under 250 gigs by this time next year.

that's messed up.......

Here is a good conversion tool to estimate your usages.

http://www.unit-conversion.info/computer.html

Maybe it will stop people who are seeding popular torrents 24/7 like the latest movies that are out in theatres.

A normal user probably uses 2-3 GB per month at most.

A pirate user probably uses 40 GB per month.

If we say that you upload as much as you download, then it is really only 125 GB. With the average pirated movie being either 700MB or 1.3 GB, then the average is around 1GB.

So 125 pirated movies = 200 hours of content.

Or if you watch TV shows, then 4 30-minute TV shows = 2 1-hour TV shows = 1 2 hour movie, so roughly the same.

And that is 6.5 hours of watching per day.

I think that is way more than enough pirating and I don't think that it is characteristic of a normal human being.

Do you think that Comcast cares about your intellectual property? If you can't pirate on Comcast, you will switch to an ISP that lets you pirate stuff. So I think that Comcast sat down and figured out how many GB/month it takes for them to lose money.

And Comcast isn't even going to kick you off or limit access if you go over 250 GB in a month. They may send you a warning, and then charge you for the extra.

And for the record, I download some movies with torrents. Sometimes, you need something right away and sometimes, you can't find a particular movie in the store so you have no other option. On average, I rip off about 3 or 4 movies a month.

And I think that at least 90% of the people on this board pirate stuff, especially the ones who whine about their content getting stolen.

And they won't dare limit P2P traffic again. Just look:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25676395/

Interesting move, not sure if it will effect the porn industry at all. I'm a novice when it comes to that kind of technical stuff but would it effect someone who views webcams all day?

Kind of sucks that the monopolies can do whatever they want. Asia is kicking our ass in terms of internet connectivity.

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more money in their pockets :)

I think it's capped to $25 max for going over the limit, at least I hope that's what it is!

everyone's talking about normal surfers, p2p users, etc, etc..

what about webmasters? How many gigs per month you think webmasters consume?

My only options where I am are cumcast and verizon.

I am in FTP every day, when I click a file to edit it, it's considered a download.. when I close and click save it's considered an upload.. Add to that uploading banners, pics, etc

exactly. this was one of the major reasons I recently did away with comcast. One for the simple fact that I could not connect to an FTP from home and because I upload a lot of gigs of bandwidth to servers for AMC. This WILL effect webmasters who upload lots of data

that's fucking bullshit

I'm sure the business packages would allow for more bandwidth usage. You are running a business from home, that's exactly what they would tell you to do.

How true that is...250 gig...shit, the things I would do with that every month!