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!

They are just preparing for the future when TV programming has a strong online presence. NBColympics.com 24/7 live streaming coverage was the coming out party.

This is also the real story behind the Net Neutrality fight. The telcos do not want TV piggybacking them for a free broadcasting ride.

And we have a winner! (From one aspect that is)

Although I'm in a different country, with no caps, I can see the potential ramifications in these bandwidth caps, at least for business owners who stream live like I do.

For example, from one of my offices I have two live television feeds streaming @ 300kbps and 6 radio station feeds @ 40 kbps, all pushing out over a fiber optic connection to my server farm which in turn distributes it to my users.

That office's bandwidth each month for streaming alone amounts to just about 260GB of data per month:

(300x2) + (40x6)=840kbps
840 kbps = 0.00010013580322265625 GBps
30 days = 2592000 secs
2592000 x 0.00010013580322265625 = 260 GB bandwidth per month (rounded up)

That's a lot of data, but that still doesn't include the VPN connections I make with other offices or any of the uploading and downloading I do on that same connection.

A cap would hurt my business significantly if I was using Comcast in the US or does the cap only apply to home users?

you just proved you dont know that much, i dont run/own any illegal tube sites, and I use way more than that uploading/downloading easily