Comcast's new bandwidth limit irks some users

September 5, 2008 By Steve Alexander

Comcast's plan to place a cap on consumer Internet use worries some customers who have come to take unfettered Web surfing for granted, even though most users aren't affected by the move.

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• WillB - Sep 05, 2008
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  Ryan Coleman will have to learn to use compression on his photos to lessen is carbon, i mean, bandwidth footprint.
  
  Too much polluting bytes. You must conserve, use less. innovate so you use less. It's the environmentalist motto.
  
  80 gigs a week for a college magazine? that's bull! that's 8,000 photos a week at 10MB each he deals with.
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• MattGyver - Sep 05, 2008
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  The DSL I had my last few years of living in Alaska (I left a little over a year ago) had a 10 GB limit for the upload and download combined. In that context, 250 GB is nothing to complain about.
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• Sophos - Sep 08, 2008
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  250 for now desensitizing you to 25 gig tomorrow
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