Comcast Mulls 250GB Monthly Cap, Disconnecting File-Sharers

[Jorge]

Insider says should only affect 14,000 of its 14 million customers, but new policy that terminates accounts who receive 4 DMCA letters in a 12 month period may have more dramatic effect.
Broadband Reports has a posted an interview with a "Comcast insider" who swears that the ISP has new network traffic management plans in store. After having been reprimanded buy the FCC and skewered by network neutrality advocates, BitTorrent users and companies, and almost everybody in between for throttling BitTorrent traffic in order to free up bandwidth, it now seems the ISP has decided on a formula of overusage fees and disconnections for persistent troublemakers.
Set to begin in a "month or two," the plan would mean that all subscribers get a 250GB per month cap with one free "slip up" a year. Violators would be charged $15 for each 10GB over the cap.

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[mfgbypooter]

fuck it, I'm going back to dial up.

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[drtoker]

Yea... Roll out a 50/10 service, and then tell every one that you can only transfer 250gb/month. Does anyone else have a problem with this?!?

[El Comandante]

I knew this was on it's way. Comcast is an evil money grubbing monopoly. I pay those fuckers 150 bucks a month for internet/digital cable. Their HD service sucks.... now this. I wish I could get Direct TV. ... but I can't. Hell I'm going back to DSL.

[ROMANTICGUY50]

Yeah! It was on the local news here. This sucks. I pay for 16Mbs down too.

[Tetrohead]

I have been pushing 100 GB+ D/U per month.

This just means I have a little more room. I have always been cautious with Comcast.

I'm getting 18/1.5 Mbps for $40/month.

[drtoker]

I'll have to look closer but I was told it seems to apply to download not up, since they cap the upload speeds, that makes sense.

[Drew Wilson]

Edit: Nevermind :)