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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
Posts: 1,098
Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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Date Posted:
7/14/11 5:21pm
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Comcast 1 year time out. |
Koneg posted:
Ravynmagi posted:
250GB might seems like a lot when you have a DOCSIS 2.0 modem, but man that sure become a lot easier to hit once you get DOCSIS 3.0.
I have a DOCSIS 2.0 modem:
It ain't the modem. It's the person behind the modem and what I call "casual overusage". You torrent a lot, use online backup services, stream Netflix/Pandora all day every day and use the most bloated storage formats known to mankind for all of your media files - which is exactly what this guy was doing.
Edit: Just checked my own usage.
Apr: 146GB
May: 110GB
Jun: 89 GB
Jul: 52 GB *(so far)
... and you can sure tell I live in Seattle 
What I was saying is that it's easier to use up that cap space when you are downloading at 50Mb/s than it would be at 20Mb/s. But I agree, it's not hard with a slower modem too. 
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Karsus_the_Great  Title: This is a title.
Posts: 76
Registered: 2003-4-12 21:33:04
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Date Posted:
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I had over 126GB just in 11 days of this past steam sales... That's just what my steam client said... I am not even a heavy user by comparison..
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heiromancerdrackus  Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
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I wont move somewhere that only has Comcast. *shrug*
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Acao Posts: 123
Registered: 2004-11-29 18:50:07
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Date Posted:
7/14/11 5:21pm
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While I think Comcast's handling of this is less than stellar he knew he was on a capped line and he also knew he was using a very large amount of bandwidth. Should Comcast have offered other options to him where the cap would not have been an issue, a definite yes. Should he have contacted Comcast for other options where the cap wouldn't be an issue, another definite yes. Let's call this 50/50 bad move on the part of both parties.
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Date Posted:
7/14/11 5:21pm
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"So he turned off the router he had that was open to the public"
genius!
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Dresler Posts: 31
Registered: 2003-10-22 08:44:19
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Date Posted:
7/14/11 5:21pm
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At least they don't charge you per device you are using to use their service like cable did or does.
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Speak-pkhq Title: Sheep's bane
Posts: 113
Registered: 2002-7-7 21:32:14
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Date Posted:
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White_Bunnay posted:
"So he turned off the router he had that was open to the public"
genius!
lmao, that was my first thought as well.
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Motar98 Title: cool guy
Posts: 363
Registered: 2003-1-4 17:18:32
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Date Posted:
7/14/11 5:21pm
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"But data usage is not very expensive for a large ISP. It's somewhere around 2 cents per GB of traffic sent to or received from the greater internet, and the prices keep dropping. "
so 55$ out of the 60 he pays is profit before other overhead. ya i really feel for comcast. why we need competition
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Date Posted:
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Well I never read the article but at least he doesn't have a comcast bill anymore.
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Lannai Posts: 103
Registered: 2004-10-7 21:55:56
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Date Posted:
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Rezist posted:
Well I never read the article but at least he doesn't have a comcast bill anymore.
Ha!
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