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Old 15-05-2008, 15:40   #8
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Re: Comcast wideband

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Originally Posted by foreverwar View Post
And if you get the speed, this might happen link
"Comcast is considering monthly download caps for all those people on its cable-based internet service.
According to a report from Broadband Reports, America's second largest ISP is mulling a plan that would cap user downloads at 250GB a month. Under the plan, users would not be penalized if they crossed that 250GB threshold once during a 12-month period, but if they did it again, they'd be charged $15 for every 10GB beyond the magic number."
Its worse than that. Concast have a habit of arbitrarily disconnect heavy users, without defining any limit. So downloading 1mb too much and thy'll cancel your service without notice, and ban you for a year. Given residences in the US tend to be more spread out than the UK, it makes ADSL even more unlikely.

Source: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/0040220
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