said by Rick :

Lastly, I do think it's important that Comcast make available to customers a bandwidth meter of some sort that will be the official measurement tool.

How does Comcast help its customers track their usage so they can avoid exceeding the limit?

There are many online tools customers can download and use to measure their consumption. Customers can find such tools by simply doing a Web search - for example, a search for "bandwidth meter" will provide some options. Customers using multiple PCs should just be aware that they will need to measure and combine their total monthly usage in order to identify the data usage for their entire account.

said by Rick :

Sounds fair to me. 250 gigs is very generous given the numbers we've seen from talk of other providers.

I would also point out that the new terms say that violators could be asked to "move to a commerical service".
Many have wondered on this forum whether Comcasts caps on their business connections are as restrictive in terms of caps. That would seem to answer that and would seem to suggest that people who wanted more than the 250 gig caps could simply move to a business connection if available to them.

Lastly, I do think it's important that Comcast make available to customers a bandwidth meter of some sort that will be the official measurement tool. While most will not come close to the 250 gig caps..those who do will have a legitimate complaint if that isn't provided I think.
You can't ask for people to now have a fixed cap and number they must go by..and no way to gauge where they stand in relation to it.

Other than that..it all sounds fair to me.

said by Rick :

Sounds fair to me. 250 gigs is very generous given the numbers we've seen from talk of other providers.

I would also point out that the new terms say that violators could be asked to "move to a commerical service".
Many have wondered on this forum whether Comcasts caps on their business connections are as restrictive in terms of caps. That would seem to answer that and would seem to suggest that people who wanted more than the 250 gig caps could simply move to a business connection if available to them.

Lastly, I do think it's important that Comcast make available to customers a bandwidth meter of some sort that will be the official measurement tool. While most will not come close to the 250 gig caps..those who do will have a legitimate complaint if that isn't provided I think.
You can't ask for people to now have a fixed cap and number they must go by..and no way to gauge where they stand in relation to it.

Other than that..it all sounds fair to me.

said by AVonGauss :

I am still neutral on the bandwidth cap issue in general, but if there is going to be a bandwidth cap, there needs to be an official record that is user accessible. It doesn't need to be in real-time, but it should reflect activity within 24 hours of the activity occurring.

The analogy I would use for comparison is your cellular company gives you (xx) minutes per month for a plan or tier, but you can't find out how many minutes you've used for the month. Seems kind of silly, no?

Hopefully this will be addressed before the official roll-out begins.

said by dar2 :

Will bit torrent throttling still be in place?

dr

said by dar2 :

Will bit torrent throttling still be in place?

dr

said by beerbum :

yep.. use more than 250 gig in a month and your connection could be throttled - to zero.

said by ncherry :

Wow 250GBytes (after all GB is giga-bytes not Gb - Giga-bits)! :-/

I take it this is really giga-bits so I'll stop pretending that it's giga-bytes now.

said by TKJunkMail :

Well you would be taking it wrong. It is 250 GigaBYTES and not gigabits. In network terminology gigabits is used to measure speed and GIGABYTES is used to measure volume.

said by ncherry :

There is one thing I'm not seeing (so far) and that is what exactly is "establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/month per account for all residential customers"? Is this the download usage, the upload usage or both? I suspect both.