# Comcast is capping bandwidth WTF!

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**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comcast-is-capping-bandwidth-wtf/199439 "2008-09-06T14:51:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comcast-is-capping-bandwidth-wtf/199439/7 "2008-09-07T01:58:09Z")

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> [@For those that don't think rear mount turbos work](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-those-that-dont-think-rear-mount-turbos-work/37562/37):
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> 250 GB is a large amount of data. A typical residential high-speed Internet user doesn’t even come close to using that amount of data. To put it in perspective, currently, the median data usage by our high-speed customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB each month. 250 GB falls more into the excessive use category—going well above and beyond typical Internet usage.
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> To reach 250 GB in a month, for example, a customer would have to do any of the following:
> 
> ```
> * Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
> * Download 62,500 songs (at 4MB/song)
> * Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
> * Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
> 
> ```

- A lot of other companies are already capping bandwidth, but people just don’t know about it because they rarely hit that cap.

Even if Comcast said it was capping at 250 TB/mo, people would still be up in arms because they would feel their freedom to be 1337 and download Blu-Ray torrents all day was taken away from them.

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