Comcast sets bandwidth limit

by Jason Sanders | August 28, 2008 at 04:36 pm

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Uh oh. We all knew that this was coming: Comcast has finally decided to limit their residential customers to 250 GB/month. Over the past year, there have been rumours about the ISP bandwidth caps and its effect on users and the Internet's development as a collaboration, media sharing, communication, entertainment tool.

Comcast will contact customers who go above the 250G byte limit and ask them to curtail their use, Comcast said. If a customer goes over the monthly limit again during the following six months, Comcast will suspend service for a year.

250 GB is a lot of data and would require "excessive" downloading or video viewing. The big question, though, is if 250 GB will be adequate in six months, a year, or even two years with the rapid growth of online video and communication.

So far, the Internet has grown exponentially (I think ;) without the use of 'hard' bandwidth limits. If Comcast is the first ISP to put these in place, others may not be far behind.

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