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You really have to appreciate how Comcast really tries to sound advanced with "World's First" in the headline. Assuming the upload will again be 1/5th the down
by RKearney 11y ago
You really have to appreciate how Comcast really tries to sound advanced with "World's First" in the headline.
Assuming the upload will again be 1/5th the download speeds, you're looking at 1Gbps down / 200 Mbps up for a total bandwidth of 1.2 Gbps. That means in a 30 day month you can use up to 388,800 GB of bandwidth. Subtract your 300 GB "courtesy bandwidth" and you're at 388,500 GB over your courtesy limit. At $10 per 50GB you'll need 7,770 separate 50GB "packages" at $10 each totaling $77,700 per month in overages.
- 0x0 11y agoSo if someone were to ping-flood a Comcast user's home IP... that could get expensive quickly, and there is almost nothing the user could do about it. So weird, and quite unfair.
- rayiner 11y agoThat calculation really doesn't apply to 99% of what people use their internet connections for. It takes me 15 minutes to update Office over me 50 mbps connection. I'm not going to download twice as many updates because my net connection is twice as fast. I'm not going to buy twice as many iTunes movies or twice as many games on Steam.
- click170 11y agoPerhaps, but many people watch Netflix, and by default Netflix consumes as much bandwidth as it can in order to stream at the highest quality available. This is going to sting for those non-teksavvy Netflix users.
- pandaman 11y agoIf this had been true then Netflix should have been digitizing analog sources dynamically, which would be all over the news. So I doubt Netflix does that, they only can use as much bandwidth as there is in their sources.
- 5parks 11y agoThe majority of users already pull the top bitrate. The lower bitrates are only used by mobile clients and users on very bad connections.