Comments on: Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality

By: Adam Eltér

Adam Eltér — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:46:53 +0000

Wait, you’re telling me that in the U.S. some providers have capped broadband plans? Thank god I live in Sweden! There isn’t a single provider here that offers capped broadband plans! Only the mobile internet is capped, with most providers capping it between 2-10 GB for around. I currently pay (converted to dollars) around $27 for a mobile Internet service capped at 5 GB and $44 for 100 mbit uncapped broadband.

By: William Diaz ✔

William Diaz ✔ — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:56:32 +0000

Just another reason I stopped using Comcast, too many confusing plans, rates, and trials that expire and hurt the consumer in the end. From caps, to rates going from $29 a month to $80 a month for internet ONLY to billing issues that Comcast then blames the customer for, all that switched me to use Sonic.net – $39.99 for unlimited broadband and home phone – and by unlimited I mean NO CAPS, THROTTLES OR OVERAGES.
Ive ditched cable and went Hulu and NetFlix and OTA Digital. Saved me $75 a month JUST FOR MYSELF.

By: JW

JW — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:44:24 +0000

The real issue is that cell phone service providers (other than Sprint :-) have put a cap on data and say “use your home internet service…” Now that the Cable modem service providers have capped their service, the online gamers, mobile phone background application updates, and internet radio & tv streamers are fiscally being pinched.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:55:24 +0000

It shocked me as well. My adult daughter watches a lot of HD streaming video. And since I’m a network guy by trade I went back and did some historical analysis. We commonly used 50GB as a family prior to my daughter getting Netflix and Hulu. After she purchased both our usage spiked to 100GB. When we cut the cord and added both my wife’s my my unique viewing habits we surged to 300GB.

I’m tempted to put Wireshare or install e-Health. The aggregate data would be pretty interesting.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:30:06 +0000

Wow, how many people are in your family? I barely pass 50 Gb on a particularly video-heavy month.

By: c. hart

c. hart — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:20:12 +0000

I asked Comcast if I could cancel my Internet service and still stream IP video to my Xbox 360 using their Xfinity TV program. So far I haven’t received back an answer. My guess is I NEED to have Internet service with Big C.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:06:27 +0000

This is the primary reason I abandoned my attempts to cut the cord. My family watches a lot of content and I found the first 3 weeks of cord cutting we consumed 300GB of data. That’s only 3 weeks and without discovery all of our options for online content.

You better believe I’ll be putting this to the test.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:08:18 +0000

THIS IS EXCELLENT!!!!!