Comcast Options

[Psykopath]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/wr_nm/...ast_internet_dc

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers.

Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies.

"If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the heaviest data users who consume the most data on our high-speed Internet service, he or she may receive a call from Comcast's Customer Security Assurance (CSA) group to notify them of excessive use," according to the company's updated Frequently Asked Questions on Excessive Use.

Customers who top 250 GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe could have service terminated for a year.

Comcast said up to 99 percent of its 14 million Internet subscribers would not be affected by the new threshold, which it said would help ensure the quality of Internet delivery is not degraded by a minority of heavy users...

Thoughts?

[Mommy]

Eh. It's whatever to me. I stopped pirating because my husband likes to buy cd's, and I like to buy movies. No need to download anything.

In other news: We got Comcast the other day, and their customer service sucks gigantic donkey balls. They wanted to send a tech out when all that simply needed to be done was register the modem they issued us. Simple as us giving them the numbers on the modem. I knew this. I told them this. Instead, they connect me with some retard female tech support agents in Louisiana who think that our modem doesn't work. After 4 phone calls we finally get a competent MALE technician in Jacksonville, FL. Why do women tech support operators suck so badly? Seriously, from now on, I think I am just going to keep calling and hanging up until I get a guy. They usually are a lot more polite and a lot more competent.