If you don’t like the service go to another provider, assholes!

Another Aussie here!

Our plans are so restrictive i’m not even sure what i’d do with 250GB…

I use about 30GB in a month because it’s a good cost/bandwidth ratio. I still download a lot of TV shows (I prefer HD too) so at the moment I don’t think it’s a problem.

However, It’s a very good point that in the future 250GB will be insufficient. What I think is even worse are the mobile data plans. Crazy prices. Even something like an SMS (not “real” data I suppose, but still). In reality it’s less than 1kb of data yet here they charge 25c on many networks here – although here again, no one pays to receive calls or messages.

I’m amazed that you guys think 250GB is restrictive, here in Australia the top plans max out at 150GB!

Caps introduce nothing for the customer and are just a way for ISPs to lay the groundwork on additional revenue. The logic they use to justify them is flawed or outright lies, sadly your average customer is too shortsighted to understand that 250gig (if that isn’t reduced soon) will quite rapidly be consumed as more online services move to the internet.

They tried the net neutrality route and failed. Now they’re looking to penalize any business that will be bandwidth heavy. Who’s going to bet with me that they’ll offer such companies local hosting which their subscribers will not be metered on but will probably have to pay extra for just like premium tv channels.

Not sure I can honestly live by this but I’m prepared to give up on the whole internet thing the minute Caps and limitations on usage become my primary concern. It isn’t a matter of greed (unused bandwidth is not stockpiled) it’s enjoying a medium for which it was designed and ISPs would love to re-design the internet into a similar model as telecommunications and television where they can empty your wallet as often as they please.

I hope Google and other internet innovators pay for some lobbyists introduce legislation that outlaws this kind of cornering of the consumer. At the very least we should see all franchise rights removed from the big operators and access granted to smaller companies.

I just downloaded both versions of 30 Rock (free episode) HD – 719.8mb and sd – 256.8
I am a Comcast subscriber and I downloaded both at the same time. Still waiting for HD to finish – halfway home, SD finished about 2 minutes ago. I started the download 22 minutes ago.
I am glad you brought this up Kevin. I had not thought about the implications here regarding the pending cap.

It sounds like this will slow down HD movie downloads from iTunes and Apple TV.?.?.? It sounds to me that Comcast is introducing policies on their ISP customers to unfairly protect their cable & video-on-demand business.

In my neighborhood, I do not have a choice to switch broadband providers and I wish the FCC will step in before Comcast implements their new “protocol agnostic” network management.