For me, it’s not just about the download, it’s about the upload and the data caps. My current 1200mbps down, 45mbps up Comcast plan, which is the fastest plan a

For me, it’s not just about the download, it’s about the upload and the data caps. My current 1200mbps down, 45mbps up Comcast plan, which is the fastest plan available from any ISP in our Silicon Valley home, has a 1.2TB data cap. If run at full speed, that data cap is exhausted in 2 hours, 13 minutes, and 20 seconds. Not even 2 and a quarter hours of downloading. For the “best” option. Lifting the data cap is another $30/month and they make you use their router hardware which opens up your network for anyone to use — that’s how “xfinitywifi” works, if you didn’t know…and since they then don’t want to attempt to account for the traffic difference between “your” internet usage and xfinitywifi traffic, you get unlimited data “free”. IIRC there used to be no unlimited option, and if you don’t have an unlimited plan, you get overage charges up to an additional $100 per month: ``` Once your courtesy month has been used, the next time you exceed 1.2 TB in a month (and any subsequent times it's exceeded in a month), you'll be notified by email and text message that you’ve exceeded your data usage plan amount. A block of 50GB will be added to your account, and a $10 charge will be applied to your bill automatically. You'll be charged $10 each time we provide you with an additional block of 50GB of data, with a limit of $100 per month.``` https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/data-usage-exceed-usage https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/data-usage-exceed-u... The upload side would take 2 days, 11 hours, and 15 and a half minutes to upload 1.2TB. They do this to prevent torrenting and any meaningful file sharing, because “ NBCUniversal - Comcast Corporation - Xfinity” has an obvious incentive to protect their profits on the media side. DOCSIS channels are the commonly-cited technical reason. You can read more about those limits here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Throughput https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Throughput but the throughput caps could easily be 100mbps or 200mbps upload at my location with my current DOCSIS3.1 stuff. Symmetrical 2gbps would be a dream, especially with unlimited data, but more than anything I’d love for these crooks to have some actual competition.