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Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
I agree with vinbuck. Metered usage and caps are the wave of the future, at least the immediate foreseeable future. With that in mind providers should be willing to offer either higher caps or no caps if a customer is willing to pay an additional cost. I dont know if any providers currently do this but it would make sense. -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
The Canadian equivalent of the FCC recently ruled, however, that caps are allowed. Although it's under heavy debate, ISP's are technically allowed to cap our internet. However since the volume here is nowhere near as bad as the US and because the ISP's know that Canadians will be in uproar, they will most likely not put… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
I'm kinda surprised you guys have such low bandwidth caps... the ISP I'm with now has a lower 40Gb for irregular users but then next one up is 300Gb then for a few Euros more it's 350Gb - and the ISP I'm moving to has a 500Gb cap for all 25Mb, 50Mb & 100Mb packages... if anything I thought you guys would be unlimited on… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
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Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
Well, I'm a Comcast customer as well. I'm not trying to be an apologist, and believe me that when I say the operations side is aware that the caps are a pretty unpopular move. With that being said, the caps effect a *very* small percentage of the customer base. And even without most of the populace approaching the cap per… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
I wouldn't mind a 500GB cap. I hit 250GB in 2 weeks so that would get me through the month. You can only get unlimited with a business account. As you can see in the chat I posted, they didn't have pricing info for me on that. Some ISP's like FiOS have unlimited regardless of speed package. Not sure how long it will last… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
Read the fine print even closer. They can actually ban you from their service for exceeding that cap. You're supposed to get a warning letter the 1st time you do it, and the 2nd time they ban you. That is of course unless they've changed this within the last 8 months or so, as that was the last time I looked at it.… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
Honestly I don't understand how people come to use 250GB in a month. I live in Toronto, and we have unlimited internet here (no cap). In a month of heavy torrenting (aka 16 hours a day non-stop torrents), I barely come close to 100GB. I watch all my stuff in non-HD. It's an unnecessary spoil. If I want HD I'll go buy/rent… -
Re: Comcast Xfinity throttling
I would be fine with a cap if it was dependent on your speed package. I pay twice as much for my service but I am still limited to the same amount as someone with a slower package. The only difference, I am able to reach the cap faster. I am still billed twice as much for the same 250GB. Cloud computing and data throttling… -
Comcast Xfinity throttling
2 months ago I had to switch from 50Mbps FiOS to 20Mbps Xfinity when I relocated. I didn't notice the fine print about their 250GB bandwidth cap on all residential services. Last month, I was unable to take a scheduled exam (WGU) through the online proctor because I didn't have sufficient bandwidth. Comcast's magical speed…
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