Comcast 16mpbs service 29.99 for 6 months.

jkrafcik said:
I wish Comcast had one price for 250 gig, and another price for uncapped, but they don't, and that's totally their prerogative.
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They do, 50 GIG speeds $99 a month with DOCSIS3, no cap. A few friends of mine have it here in Jax..
 
16mb for $30 sounds great. The best I can get is 12/1.5, for $85/mo from Cableone, the only competition is ATT DSL at 3/500k for $35/mo and it's spotty at best. We don't have a monthly limit, but if we go over our daily threshold of 11gb we get our speed cut in half for the rest of the day. 250gb cap is nothing...we've barely been on this last week, and taking a look at our usage meter we've broke 92gb in the last 9 days, that's with no torrents. 3 computers, 2 tvs with 2 adults and 1 child using them, no cable service. We stream netflix, hulu and youtube; my kid and I have a blast watching HD streams from youtube on the main tv. Mix that with music, photos and videos to friends spread all over the country, streaming music to my portable at school, playing 3 player Borderlands together, random gaming,etc...250gb is VERY easy to hit in a month.
 
I'm on comcast and constantly hover around 250gb.

It is easy to hit if you use your net to constantly stream HD things (netflix via pc and xbox both) and d/l plenty of games thanks to steam, etc.

Past week alone I've d/led Vindictus beta, FFXIV beta (10 gb alone there), and Mafia 2 when it came out.

Then factor in bandwidth for gaming, youtube (HD again), not hard for me to hit the cap over a month period.

I just wonder what happens if you go over? I heard they call you, then if you go over again within 6 months they cut you off.

I went over once, never heard from them, and went over again a few months later and nothing.
 
Dreaz said:
That's nice.

I'm a bit confused how people in the [h] community can only imagine using 250GB through improper means. People be drinking that RIAA juice in full steam here.

I mean, it's not like people might actually host Streams in 1080p, or have video phones/conferences, or work from home uploading/downloading huge media files.

The people in this thread assuming users can not exceed 250GB by legal means are, quite frankly, morons. Your netflix on the 360 doing 480p is pretty measly compared to someone who does netflix on the TV in full HD. So I'm sorry if you can't reach the limits with your usage, but don't go claiming people who can exceed those limits as pirates or felons.
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Considering I don't own an xbox360 and all our Netflix streams come to our MCE box at the highest resolution Netflix supports, and anytime I watch any video content I watch it at the highest resolution, this would seem to counter your argument, and show that you are making incorrect assumptions about me. I never said you couldn't go over the cap performing completely activities, and I would imagine anyone that does need to move massive files from work to home and back could go over quickly, but I would wager the vast majority of users who are behaving fully legally would find it challenging to go over this cap, which is most likely the reason Comcast chose this value in the first place.

Anyway, I'm not defending Comcast, I'd rather there be no cap, but at least the cap isn't low enough to bother my current internet use pattern.
 
A few years ago Comcast shut me and my Bro off for 30 days without notice, There was no cap that we knew about neither did any reps we called on the phone. The only person who had any info was some Clown at the Internet Abuse department at Comcast, They never answered the phone you can only leave a message. When this happened we lost out Phone/Internet but not cable. We were paying $185 a month for all thier services and we went over 150Gig at that time, so without warning they shut us off. Well my bro called and got AT&T phone/dsl then added Dish network for his tv and for years has had no problems with them. He left 5 cable boxes outside in the rain along with his comcast modem before he dropped everything off at the local payment center, to this day Comcast still calls him asking him to come back and they DENY there are any caps on usage of bandwith. Comcast is horrible i have AT&T 20 Meg down with no Caps, i do pay $100 a month for Phone and Internet but id gladly pay more to avoid Comcast.
 
Do some googling and you'll find a bunch of threads like this one tat put Netflix HD streaming at around 1.7gb/hr. if your connection will support it.

250gb / 1.7 = 147 hours

It seems like I'm building or rebuilding a pc each month so I have to download updates, etc; I too stream Pandora and so does my wife; I seem to get about 1 Steam game per month and they are usually about 5-10gb; I cruise reddit and end up watching youtube videos here and there; my wife is an amateur photographer and we have Mozy backing up her system (about 15mb per pic in RAW, some months there are a couple of gigs); and as I started with - we watch some Netflix in HD. It all adds up and I keep tabs on it..

One does not need to be a pirate to edge up to, or over, the cap. Being a family of two power users I can imagine that a tech savvy family with a few kids will always go over the cap.

p.s. In the last 2 months Comcast has had a number of times where it has been down for 5-30 minutes in the evenings. In that same time period the quality of service has declined noticeably (like Google will take 5-8 seconds to come up instead of the usual near-instant speed). I can't help but wonder if I've been put on their shit list, or that they are rolling out some sort of less obvious throttling scheme.
 
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I used to have comcast and switched to Verizon FiOS

I kept hitting ~1tb a month and comcast warned me to slow it down, but I can't due to a secrutiy camera CCTV feed 24/7 to home from my business.

If that cap wasn't there I'd definitely still be with comcast. Their solution was "you can upgrade to a business line for +$120 a month" or something like that
 
I build/rebuild/update a bunch of servers at home (20 vm's or so). That is why I download the updates ONCE and server them out from the lan. Saves a lot of time/bandwidth.
 
neoice said:
They do, 50 GIG speeds $99 a month with DOCSIS3, no cap. A few friends of mine have it here in Jax..
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Actually Comcast has previously stated that the 50Mbps (I'm assuming that's what you meant) tier includes the same 250GB cap. In fact, they've also said even the 105Mbps tier offered in some areas still has the same 250GB cap at $199 a month.

The only way to get Comcast NOT capped is if you go with a business line. It still has an 'acceptable use' clause but any cap is a heck of a lot higher than the residential service, approaching more towards 1-2TB a month. It's more expensive though, 50Mbps will run $189 a month.

It's entirely possible for someone to hit the 250GB cap without anything illegal. Granted you might be doing something from a home office, but that's not illegal (and the residential service doesn't say you absolutely can't do anything business related on it, just that the business service is more oriented to the things a business normally needs)
 
Main Target said:
Pretty happy with 24/3 with ATT U-Verse. Pay about 60 bucks a month
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4-5 months ago they had door to door salesmen trying to sale Uverse. They left me a door hanger with a phone number to order, I go to order, only to be told it's not available. I look online and their computer responds with 'not available' for not only my street, but a street over in both directions. I can only imagine the time and effort they wasted advertising door to door with something they won't actually let you order.

So, anyway, I come home the other day to see AT&T trucks up and down the road running all new lines on the poles. One says to me - 'Hey, check your phone line, I think I may have cut it.' Well, my backup DSL was working (for when Comcast goes out), and I tell him that. He leaves, and later I find out my Comcast has started having random, long bursts of packet loss between the modem and the first hop. Now I'm wondering if the AT&T guy cut a Comcast line and thought it was an unimportant AT&T line. I guess that's one way to drum up Uverse business.

I just hope I don't have to call Comcast out, ugh, 'No, there's nothing wrong in here, I already checked all my equipment. Go look at the line on the pole for a cut.' 'I can't do that, I can refer it to a line tech, but they don't reply to customers.' Then a line tech never comes out, and the cycle starts anew.
 
neoice said:
They do, 50 GIG speeds $99 a month with DOCSIS3, no cap. A few friends of mine have it here in Jax..
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You mean 50mbps? My cousin in Miami had that for a few months. He was downloading 10GB files in minutes. Good times.
 
Hitting a 250GB cap in days? Pirate less maybe. No way you're hitting that from youtube videos. Pretty sure you'd have to redownload your steam library weekly to go through that much data.
 
i`d just wait till they bring back the 19.99 for 12 months like they had last year haha
 
I don't know, comcast gets a lot of hate but they're the best option for me. All the other providers around here want you to sign a 2 year contract, which I can't do because as a student I'm only in town for 9 months out of the year. Not to mention the fact that the other providers just aren't competitive in their offerings. Oh and verizon sold out to frontier here in Oregon.

Anyway, I'm on the 16mbps down speed plan for $43 a month, but according to speedtest i'm getting around 30mbps down.
 
Alright, it looks like I have to come back and eat a little crow here. I originally assumed that for someone to consume 250gb a month in bandwidth would have taken extraordinary circumstances. You see, I had only myself and groups of my friends who I would consider enthusiast to power users to use as a template. And then I had one of my friends who is a torrent freak as my other comparative party. The group of enthusiast users like myself use the internet pretty heavily from Netflix streaming HD, some YouTube, lots of Steam downloads and online gaming, file transfers, off site backup, etc... and we don't use to much more than 100gb-150gb a month. My torrent friend can reach 250gb on a given month depending on his "participation" in the torrent community. So, I knew there were cases where it could be done. But that case and other cases I had involved not so sanctioned activity.

After reading some of these other scenarios though, I guess I highly underestimated the bandwidth that things like HD YouTube, security systems, Steam, etc. all combined can demand. I guess with Netflix on 3 tvs (I only have one PS3), multiple computers (I have 6 including the server), and whatever else some users have scattered around the house I am still in awe of the use some require, but I can't refute it. I don't even have a cap with my ISP but my one friend who exceeds 250gb a month does receive kindly worded letters from the same ISP from time to time. This is definitely an important time in the convergence of the internet and entertainment.
 
I have comcast and I go over the cap every month, haven't heard a word from them. I didn't choose comcast my appt complex has a contract with them, we can't choose anyone else.
 
I hate comcast but I use it most people just have no choice. I get terrible DSL from ATT or a better DSL that is to far away to get good speeds those are my only choices. I think it is really a crime cable companies are allowed to operate monopolies in the US but the politicians from either side have allowed it to happen forever.

At the end of the day though they have the better connection so I am stuck. I have disconnected my TV service the funny thing is they still have not sent me the box to pick up my cable box and and my cable works. Also as other said they are the only company that does not lock you into year or more contract. If you are lucky enough to live in a large city where there are many cable, dsl and fiber providers good for you but for the rest of us as terrible as comcast is they are better than the others.

Also they are so annoying always trying to call and sell me their stupid phone service for 20$ per month. As soon as a disconnected the TV because I was tired of not seeing anything good on TV at all they started calling me to sell me that again too.
 
Everyone I know who has had Comcast has cancelled it for DSL or Fiber, except those without any other options. Nobody I know with other options has stuck with Comcrap. Constant billing mistakes in their favor, the worst customer service that rivals even Verizon's, very aggressively hitting people for usage (although this can vary from state to state), and random and repeated outages ranging from minutes to hours (again, depends on state). I have two cousins with comcast that have been begging their local telco to bring DSL or fiber to their area for years without success. Read Comcast user reviews on broadbandreports for a taste of the fail.
 
Well...I pay for Mediacom Cable Internet for $18.99/month after all taxes and fees which gives me a 12 Meg download 1 Meg upload. No contract and no other services packed in with it to discount the price. I gotta say, that I can do without a 6 month 16 Meg download for 50% more that also doubles in price after that. If Comcast is your only high speed option, go for it. I just wish Verizon would offer Fibre here.
 
Comcast user here, never had a problem with it. Matter of fact I'm happier with comcast than I have been with any other ISP I've ever used.

I have the 50mpps service and it rocks. I work exclusively from home, watch netflix movies, youtube, stream music, hulu, download etc and on avverage use about 180GB a month
 
rudy said:
Also they are so annoying always trying to call and sell me their stupid phone service for 20$ per month. As soon as a disconnected the TV because I was tired of not seeing anything good on TV at all they started calling me to sell me that again too.
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The last time they did that the guy said "Wait..let me ask you, how much do you pay for phone service? I think Comcast can save you alot, so how much is it?" and I replied "$4 a month. You can beat that?" Then I tried to sell HIM on voip.ms and all it lets me do that Comcast doesn't. I just kept going on about all the features they have that Comcast doesn't, feature by feature, until he hung up. (Call filtering, those calling voice menus like press 1 for xxxx, press 2 for xxxx, ring just the phone of the person the call is for, etc.)
 
Atara said:
100% agreed, I was in Sacramento before I moved and had surewest 25/25 (although it ran at 25/50 speeds). I loved it, always fast and never fluctuated. If only there was something like it here in Seattle =/. On a side note I use about 400gb per month on comcast and have never had a warning or extra charge :eek:
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just so you know they dont enforce the 250GB cap in washington because comcast owns all of the fiber infrastructure in the entire state.. plus its their HQ state.. so it costs them nothing to allow unlimited internet in the state.. i live in spokane and its the same thing here..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
just so you know they dont enforce the 250GB cap in washington because comcast owns all of the fiber infrastructure in the entire state.. plus its their HQ state.. so it costs them nothing to allow unlimited internet in the state.. i live in spokane and its the same thing here..
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They do enforce it... but seems like only when you blow past a TB:D
 
I currently have 12/2 from Comcast at about $40/month.

Is this deal worth doing for me? After the 6 months are up do u have to stay at 16/2 rate any longer?
 
I used to have comcast back in Baltimore and I had a similar deal. I had the 6/2 deal for $29.99 a month and then it got upgraded to 16/2 once they installed better lines in Baltimore. I had a year contract and after it was over they tried to charge me $59.99 per month to use the service. I just politely said I wanted to cancel and within 5 minutes they offered me the $29.99 deal locked in for 2 years. The representatives can make whatever deals they want with the customer. You just have to make them work for you.

Now, on to Time Warner :-(
 
obs said:
Hitting a 250GB cap in days? Pirate less maybe. No way you're hitting that from youtube videos. Pretty sure you'd have to redownload your steam library weekly to go through that much data.
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Uhh, when games these days are 10+ GB apiece, and people have dozens of Steam games? No. Sorry. Wrong.

One month I had reformatted and had to re-download all my Steam games. I was up around 500 GB of bandwidth that month, and I don't really download that much other than some occasional TV shows.
 
MavericK96 said:
Uhh, when games these days are 10+ GB apiece, and people have dozens of Steam games? No. Sorry. Wrong.

One month I had reformatted and had to re-download all my Steam games. I was up around 500 GB of bandwidth that month, and I don't really download that much other than some occasional TV shows.
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do most people download ALL of their steam games? (serious question) I have 57 games in steam but currently only have 12 downloaded/installed. If I dont play something for a few months I dont keep it installed
 
lowteckh said:
They do enforce it... but seems like only when you blow past a TB:D
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thats not because of the 250 gig bandwidth limit thats the old bandwidth limit they had (and still use in some area's like washington and area's that dont have a lot of customers) before they decided to put a number on it.. prior to the 250 gig limit comcast limit was if you avg'd more then 80% of the avg bandwidth on the node then you would receive a warning.. but of course all ya need is some one else on the node downloading a bunch of crap and they just ignore you.. was like that in my neighborhood before the 250 gig bandwidth limit.. me and my neighbor together would avg almost 1.5TB a month of traffic but neither of us got got a warning because we kept the avg bandwidth usage insanely high on the node.. where as my friend used 300 gigs on a different node and received a warning for excessive usage.. :D

leezard said:
do most people download ALL of their steam games? (serious question) I have 57 games in steam but currently only have 12 downloaded/installed. If I dont play something for a few months I dont keep it installed
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only problem is if say you have 50+ games on steam and delete and reinstall steam or have to format and reinstall steam.. steam will automatically start downloading every friggin game in your list.. had it happen to me once.. had to go through my whole steam list and cancel the downloads on all of them..
 
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sirmonkey1985 said:
thats not because of the 250 gig bandwidth limit thats the old bandwidth limit they had (and still use in some area's like washington and area's that dont have a lot of customers) before they decided to put a number on it.. prior to the 250 gig limit comcast limit was if you avg'd more then 80% of the avg bandwidth on the node then you would receive a warning.. but of course all ya need is some one else on the node downloading a bunch of crap and they just ignore you.. was like that in my neighborhood before the 250 gig bandwidth limit.. me and my neighbor together would avg almost 1.5TB a month of traffic but neither of us got got a warning because we kept the avg bandwidth usage insanely high on the node.. where as my friend used 300 gigs on a different node and received a warning for excessive usage.. :D



only problem is if say you have 50+ games on steam and delete and reinstall steam or have to format and reinstall steam.. steam will automatically start downloading every friggin game in your list.. had it happen to me once.. had to go through my whole steam list and cancel the downloads on all of them..
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I've never had steam start auto downloading after a format, and I've done plenty
 
leezard said:
I've never had steam start auto downloading after a format, and I've done plenty
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Yea, never once has that happened to me. It's also quite easy to backup steam games before formatting.
 
ryken said:
$60 a month for 16 down isn't too bad. My full price Comcast is $55 right now and I think it's advertised 12 down. That being said, I never hit about 7 on speedtest.net.
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I used to pay that. They constantly update their service, now I pay $41 for the same service after a quick call. Fortunatlely I get teh full 12mbps down. I've had nothing but great service with comcast. It rarely goes down outside of scheduled maintenance which I've only seen a couple times.
 
If you backup your HDD to a remote server once with Comcrap, you've blown the cap and will get a nasty gram, right? Avoid.
 
Ok, I am a frugal shopper and I laugh at the OP LOL!

Seriously... not a good deal, but a BAD deal, even at $29.99.

I have gotten (for the past year or so) $19.99 for the same exact speed, the same exact location, and anyone can do this and renew it the same month it ends. So, anyone can basically get $19.99 a month for internet/basic TV. Anyone paying more is getting shafted and lied to, BELIEVE ME I am 100% sure. Sometimes reps do not know anything and will lie and say they do not have deals. Just call again and talk to a smart rep.

PLUS*, I get free basic TV since most of the comcast guys never cap the ONLY INTERNET cable with a filter.

I am not on ANY welfare so don't think I am on section 8 or something....So for $25.75 a month (after taxes and fees) I get uber fast 16MB comcast (which tests 16MB/2.5MB every day I test) and free cable TV for the most part (including MTV, Vh1, all local channels, comedy central)

BOOYA!

PLUS --- you can change your IP easily with a router ANY SECOND you need to. Just use the mac address changer via router and reset the modem. BAM, new IP.

You guys should get with the times........

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My only gripe with Comcast is the somewhat moronic service reps (usually, not always) and MY BIGGEST GRIPE is it seems the internet bogs all the way down to 56k dialup speeds when the clock hits 12AM (internal issue at comcast? I think so!) That only lasts about 1 hour though, so no huge deal... but it really sucks if you're gaming or doing important data transfers
 
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