Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter For Metered Broadband

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:11 AM EDT

Article Source: GigaOM

technology, internet, web, broadband, comcast, meter, bandwidth-cap

Comcast is out telling defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today's terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future. Nevertheless, If they are going to put caps, then they need to give us to what I think is an acceptable expectation - a meter.

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Michael Sautter

. . . but with a meter then people will know when they are close to the limit and may not exceed it as often and then how will poor Comcast get more money for users going over the cap?

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#1 - Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:36 AM EDT

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I'm just glad I have DSL. When cable broadband first became available in my area (1998) I actually held out for a year and half for DSL. My friends were bragging about their blazingly-fast downloads yet also complaining about how available bandwidth took a hit when the kids in the neighborhood got home from school. Even now, cable is still the cheapest way to go in my area, but I still advise friends to get DSL for the simple fact of having a dedicated connection. Although I'm no longer as much of a bandwidth hog, I'd be upset at the prospect of metered access. I should also point out that after Hurricane Katrina, my phone service was restored within 2 1/2 days and my DSL was back up about 9 hours after phone service resumed. Cable internet users in my area were down for MONTHS after the storm. The phone company has to provide a guarantee of service availability, the cable company doesn't.

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#2 - Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:08 PM EDT

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