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Comcast Users Can No Longer Download to Oblivion
29-Aug-2008
Written by: Sari N. Kent
Come Oct. 1, Comcast High Speed Internet users will not be able to download to their heart’s content.
Comcast users who enjoy downloading to their heart’s content will now hit a wall since Comcast Corp. has limited the amount that users can download.
It seems the resurrection allowed is going to be given a certain amount of time. According to a Wall Street Journal article, “Starting Oct. 1, residential high-speed Internet customers will be limited to 250 gigabytes of traffic a month. Typical customers use between two gigabytes and three gigabytes a month, Comcast spokeswoman Jen Khoury said.”
As the deadline looms, Internet companies are scrambling to implement restrictions of their own to deal with it, along with the World Wide Web's ever increasing traffic.
According to Download Blog on CNET.com, “News about the upcoming 250 GB monthly cap for Comcast data subscribers left some questions unanswered. I shot a few of my own, as well as some from readers over to Comcast to get them answered. These are mostly items that did not appear in both the post about the amendment, or the otherwise comprehensive FAQ page.”
The reason behind this big Bandwidth change seems to be Comcast's association the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
E-Commerce Times, which is a part of the ECT News Network, explains the process had been a long time coming. “The company acknowledged it has been evaluating a specific monthly data usage or bandwidth threshold for its Comcast High-Speed Internet residential customers for some time.”
So if you are a subscriber to the Comcast High-Speed Internet service and you live to download stuff, it looks like your nirvana has not been so perfect after all.
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