Comcast continues service cuts after bandwidth cap
October 4th, 2008
When last Wednesday, October 1, rolled around, online life changed for me. It was the day that Comcast began capping bandwidth at a maximum of 250 gigs per month for each account. While it sounds like a lot, it can be used up very quickly if you buy and download software online, especially large programs, such as office suites, commercial photo and video editing packages, and if you’re involved in beta testing a product with an aggressive patch-and-update policy.
The next morning I woke up, did my normal morning routine, and when my eyes were finally caffeinated and ready to deal with life in the ether, I fired up my computer, downloaded my email, and the first email that caught my eye in the batch of 200 that I downloaded was one from Comcast. It caught my eye because the word “newsgroups” – as in Usenet newsgroups – was in the subject – and said the communications company was delivering a doubly-whammy to customers in October.
