They told me it was on my contract well I found the contract no where did it say I would be ending up with a 60 GB cap. They will not even put me back even though they are lieing sacks of crap. They know dam well I was not told they lied to me on purpose and somehow get away with it.

Now I have a year and a half of this shit. Well actually it is a year they gave me 6 months where I don't have to pay this over usage fee. You know what I am going to big time use that. They thought that just using 100 GB was a resource hog wait till they see that I am using 400 GB a month or more for that 6 months.

For that 6 months I will simply waste bandwidth on purpose. I will re download all the software I bought every week just for the hell of it. I went with them from being promised unlimited and then they just remove that.

You know why they did that? I beat it out of them but the reason is they sold the unlimited then people took them up on it then they realized that was a mistake. So now bell is charging Canadians to upgrade there infrastructure that they had help from the Canadian government to build. So they are forcing all Canadians to pay for there upgrades and also they use it for an excuse to make more money while doing it.

I wish I could get everyone in Canada to just refuse to pay bell for there service untill they remove the cap. What are they going to do disconnect all of Canada from the internet which is for the most part there customer base?

The answer is of course not they will remove the cap if they face bankruptcy. I was not one of the stupid people to accept it but other dumb asses in canada were ok with this so now I am fucked over for there lack of coherent thought.

Infact I wish this couib be a world wide thing in all countries to show all the greddy rich greasy money grubbers that that should be no more. Infact I know a perfect solution give me a licence to kill and a bucnh of guns bring each money grubber to me I will kill each one I don't care how many it is. In fact I would enjoy it maybee record some of the greddy people begging for there life so I can listen to it before I go to sleep at night sort of as a lullaby.

I think that is the only option kill some money grubbers make sure it is telivised and have a message saying all other greedy money grubbers need to stop there ways now or they are next to die. They will stop because to keep going would be certain death.

Hey imbecile;

Didn’t you know that not all the people on the internet are native english speakers?

Regardless of the grammatical errors, all that said by Tilo000 (post 120) is true… or perhaps, can you deny it?

LOL

English, bitch!

The people that contract high speed connections is for using like that: HD Video TV streams, playing online games, streaming audio or video, BitTorrent, YouTube, downloading a lot of things without restrictions, etc.

For what I need a high speed connection that I cannot use?

These assholes of Comcast and Qwest pretend that the people use its high speed connection for only browsing and read e-mails? Fuck You, retarded people from Comcast and Qwest, You are a bunch of THIEVES.

If I want only browsing and read e-mails with only a 512kbps unlimited connection is sufficient.

USA is definitely an extreme corrupt country, where the big corporations are free of doing that they want and breaking the law also as they want without any punishment at all, and also the average USA citizen is a person imbecile, submissive and without personality, that allow to abusive and corrupt corporations do all that they want too.

USA, the land of the corruption, of the abuse, of the vulgarity and of the bad examples.

I just informed my friend about this and he shat bricks. Now he’s deciding on whether he should switch to Comcast or not for better value’s sake.

In my area we have AT&T DSL (soon to be capped or so I hear) and CableOne internet (cuts your speeds in half if you download excessively in one day, though no monthly caps)

“WOW for example you are transferring at least 1mb a sec upstream and downstream.”

Where did you get that kinda numbers? I just checked netlimiter and with updates and all wow has transfered THIS YEAR around 3gb combined up and down. And i play ALOT like 5-14 hours a day since april.

If an honest coincidence, try anoterh nick. =]

However, in areas where FiOS or other
competition exists, they are going to
lose customers, especially if the
competition uses lack of monthly
usage caps as a selling point.

http://www.twilightcampaign.net w00p

The most agressive time slot is 5pm till 9pm and during that time I can download 3GB. What happens if I download more? My speed is simply reduced, but still remains fast enough to watch any youtube video (well more like 10 at once) based on the last video I watched.

10am till 5pm they limit to 6GB and the other hours they have no limit.

I much rather than a clearly defined limit like this (without the severe speed limits you do see) than one that sets a monthly limit on you. Hey, I even like them so much I set any big transfers to go at 4am :) Ah and the joy of WOL.

If (for example) you uploaded 250 GB in a month and not download nothing in that time, you used all of your limit…

If you downloaded 125 GB and uploaded 125 GB in a month you used all of your limit too.

In a few words, you can’t do nothing with this!!!

It’s clearly a SCAM, and the people that say that “is not so bad” or “this is nice” are obviously people that have not any clue about internet or people (from Comcast) infiltrated here for deceiving to the internet users or costumers.

The REAL problem with Comcast is that its infrastructure is outdated, and they don’t want to update it; that’s all!!

They offer internet plans that cannot support, and for this reason are the caps.

Comcast has not the infrastructure for giving an unlimited connection of 4, 6 or 8 MB as they offer, these are the real facts.

The only UNLIMITED connection that Comcast could offer (given its outdated infrastructure) is a simple (512 kbps down / 256 kbps); which working to maximum capacity gives a total DATA TRANSFER of 250GB in a month.

It’s obviously a SCAM, and I think that exist sufficient evidence for starting a judicial process against this nefast corporation called Comcast, for deceiving to its customers with misleading advertising, and by being also an obstacle against the healthy development of internet technology and communications in general.

******7776 MB*******

Bad math again… You started at MB/s, not KB/s, and your division should be by 1024 – your final result is 7593.75 GB

I exceed my usage after less then a day?

30 days x 3MB/sec x 86400 sec/day x 1MB/1000KB =

******7776 MB*******

so f your caps unless that is a specific plan that you are selling.

when we did get shut off and were talking tot he abuse line, who by the way treated us like garbage as well and had committed treason or soemthing against the country, had told us they mean unlimited as “unlimited access” not unlimited bandwidth. access being its always on. which is complete BS cause no shit its always on as its not dial-up.

@71
the memory amount is 640k not 512k as all computers still have the basic 64k basic memory space. all the memory you put in your computer is extended memory. :D
oh and apparently Bill Gates never said that quote anyway.
http://imranontech.com/2007/02/20/did-bill-gates-say-the-640k-line/

regarding the article referencing Qwest…
we have Qwest now after being shut off from comcast and the installer guy has said there is no limit also as i was talking with him about why we were getting the DSL instead of the cable line and he said that he thinks limits are pretty dumb and that Qwest doesnt have any monthly limits. that coulda been to his knowledge but to this day we havent had issues with it.

now to all the people NOT in the US and think that 250gb is more than enough for anyone go complain to your governments about why your countries internet speeds suck so badly. we cannot help it if it costs too much money for australia to string cables across the whole outback to feed internet to a city hundreds of miles away from another city.

the fact is that future will bring more bandwidth intensive applications and uses so these ISPs need to get with the times and stop hindering all this innovation or else someone else will come along and make huge profit off their dinosaur age business practices. then itll be too late for them.

the part that annoys me too is how ISPs think anyone using more than those caps must be doing something illegally so that justifies a cap in their minds. there are plenty of legal ways to use bandwidth as have been mentioned in previous comments above.

well i think that is about all for me for now. :D

“I don’t see how people can complain about 250GB/month.”

I don’t see how people can complain about 125GB/month.

I don’t see how people can complain about 60GB/month.

I don’t see how people can complain about 30GB/month.

Get the picture yet? Once you let them get their foot in the door, you’re screwed. Better to put a stop to it now while you still can, and help to prevent the idea spreading. Try to remember all the folks out there you download from and what will happen to you when they are all affected too.

It helps to know what you’re calling inaccurate so I suggest you try reading the fucking article, dipshit.

WTF are you talking about? I live in an area where Qwest holds a monopoly… either you have service with them, or you have NOTHING.

I live in a house with 4 other roommates. All in college. 250/5 = 50 GB per month per person.

The HD streaming of movies ALONE will put is in the 150 GB zone, let alone if we want to play xbox or pc or ps2 online, patch games, download demos, (which are in the GBs these days).

Three of us have online courses this semester, the teacher and students communicate in a web feed, assignments are turned in online.

All that will easily put us over the 250 GB mark by itself, let alone daily web surfing, email, etc. So please “Pixelated”, STFU since you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. Most customers are families or multiple users, and the caps are ridiculous for them.

BTW, 250 GB is DATA TRANSFER and this is download + upload, not only download; according to the information of Comcast.

Comcast is simply a bunch of THIEVES.

That I don’t understand, is as even the moment, Comcast has not been SUED by liar and thief. This dishonest corporation deserves that.

This seems that the regular american citizen is so stupid and submissive that allows to the big corporations STEALING their money, freedom and privacy, without any complaints at all.

I did 11.5 GB on Friday… 5.3 was from Opera (browsing, email, downloading) and 700MB in uTorrent.

Wanna watch how fast I can change providers?

if you were to download a 250GB file from a normal site like download.com, you would use around 300GB of bandwidth due to ack, syn and syn ack packets.

also they count data sent to your IP and not data that you actually receive

A user with a low bandwidth cap, and with a 256kb download connection can still be flooded with a user pushing 30mbits/s and and the counter will count all 30mbits/s and push the user over their bandwidth cap

This happened to a few people I know from BF2

A user hosted images on his own personal server, and posted it in the forums then looked at his server logs to get a few IPs then did a packet flood

In the UK he had a static IP and he knew he was getting flooded so he turned off his modem, for the rest of the day. by the next day, his ISP stopped his service as he only had a 5GB bandwidth cap and even though the modem was off the isp still logged the flood as bandwidth usage.

if your IP draws traffic to the to your ISP then they count it as bandwidth usage

FiOS baby, 100% digital and 100% worth it.

comcast: don’t offer a speed if you can’t offer it unlimited, ok? :)

Maybe I’m lucky and they haven’t oversold in Albuquerque, yet.

Last month (July) 287GB down 119GB up. No call no special web page nothing.

I have two DSL connections through Qwest, I’m positive I’ve used 250gb down on one connection or 500gb total through the two connections in a single month . A couple months I’ve even uploaded over 250GB on a single DSL line.

Anecdotal evidence, absolutely, but no different from this article.

“What, oh what, shall we do?”

“Let’s see… if games and movies increase in size each year…”

“we could invest in… SHHHH!!!”

…And the dopes said hey it’s cool, we don’t even need 250GBs.

Clearwire throttles Bittorrent very aggressively. Consider which website we’re posting on.