Comcast, is considering abandoning it’s unlimited broadband Internet plan and setting a 250 GB monthly cap on subscribers’
Comcast hopes that by limiting the bandwidth available to extremely high-volume users, they can keep their network running at optimal speeds for the rest of their customers that are lighter users. 250 GB is still a huge amount of bandwidth. It’s hard to see how this could really affect anyone except the most ardent downloader. 250 GB is equivalent to 60 high-definition movies or 3,000 MP3 albums per month. It’s also hard to see how cutting off a few super high volume users is going to improve overall network speed for everyone else. If a few users are capable to causing a bottleneck across an entire service area, it would seem that Comcast has other network issues to deal with besides a few bandwidth hogs.
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