saulrosenbaum.com / 2011 / February

So you may not know it but if you’re a subscriber to Comcast’s Broadband Internet you have a 250GB a month monthly allotment, and if you’re anything like us, you may be close to maxing that out every month.

• A small home based business (1 person)
• video chat 5-6 times a month
• 5 Computers with dropbox accounts
• 2 TiVos with netflix
• Pandora Radio
• and the occasional binge on Hulu

I don’t think that’s really excessive, that’s just life in 2011 - especially during a cold winter, we can easily watch 5 movies a weekend. But as of late I’ve been bumping right into that limit - and suspect that sooner rather than later I’ll have to make a decision as to if I’m going to continue doing business with Comcast, or move to a competitor, I’d like to continue with Comcast but I have 2 issues.

Issue One with the Comcast 250GB Cap:

I pay for increased speed (Blast package) doesn’t it make sense that with the ability to consume their product at faster speeds, the cap should increase? If they’re going to cap consumption - the math needs to be fair (and I’ll leave it to you to do the math) Calculate the time it would take to consume the 250GB at the base price speed, take that time and calculate how much each paid tier can consume in that same time period, IMHO THAT should be the cap.

Issue Two with the Comcast Broadband Cap:

They certainly don’t cap any of their other services, want to watch PPV 24 hours a day all month long - they’ll probably send you a holiday card, talk on the phone for 250 straight hours - awesome, but use the internet everyday, all day, and they’ll shut you down.