Comcast to place a cap on Internet Downloads

[zelphics]

Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, said this week that it would place limits on customers’ broadband usage.
Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/te...l?ref=business

I personally don't like what happened here, it's just a matter of time before other companies follow in suit. Does this news affect any one?

[Luke]

I read that the other day as well. This has been brewing for some time. It looks like Time Warner may also test some sort of "pay per bandwidth" type of service too. Indeed, the 250GB per month bandwidth is pretty hefty. On the other hand, this is a poor way to deal with the fact that Comcast oversold its resources.

Good find. Thanks for posting.