read -- Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

[DAVID FARBER <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: May 7, 2008 3:40:13 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
>
>
> With regard to "Truth in Advertising" - I would hope that Comcast  
> properly advertises that 250GigaBYTES per 30 day month is an average  
> transfer rate of about 771,605 bit/second combined in+out.  (It's  
> less for those 31 day months.)
>
> As others have pointed out this works out to a small stack (roughly  
> 60) of DVD movies a month - but we are entering an HD world.  HD  
> imagery requires rather more bits.  So, the entire Comcast budget  
> would be consumed by a family that watches about one HD movie per day.
>
> And, when measured over a period of a month even seemingly "low  
> bandwidth" channels start to consume gigabytes of that Comcast  
> monthly data budget.
>
> A dumb continuous-motion security camera that emits an average of  
> 100,000kBITs/second is going to burn through about 32 of that 250  
> gigabyte budget.
>
> And an open VoIP call, with decent sound quality, can burn twice  
> that when one considers that data flows, and is being counted into  
> the Comcast budget, both in and out.
>
> I hope my simple math hasn't slipped too many decimal points or  
> missed too many bits-to-bytes conversions.
>
> But my point remains - In tomorrow's world 250Gigabytes/month won't  
> amount to a very large hill of beans.
>
> And let's hope that Comcast clearly advertises that it is really  
> selling a 771,605 bit/second (in+out) average rate service.
>
>                 --karl--

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