Why Comcast?!?!

I literally cheered when FiOS moved into my area and I could dump Comcast for good.

I've had Comcast in multiple houses in multiple states and it has been a universally bad experience every time, without fail.

Same here. COX put a cap just last month on me. I'm limited to only 100GB. I saw my usage from before the cap, and was under 100GB most months. But it really sucks now having to think twice before downloading something.

They haven't started enforcing it again in my area, but it really wouldn't impact me anyways. I'm never even close to the cap. I don't imagine that most people who are near or over the cap on a monthly basis are doing anything legitimate anyways and it frequently has a negative impact on their neighbors. The internet in my Dad's neighborhood slows to a crawl every night because of some hog.

Damn, what the hell do you download?

I have FTTH connection on a 250GB bandwidth limit, and only once I have reached the limit.

According to Comcast:

"XFINITY Internet customers’ median monthly data usage is currently 16 GB per month."

LOL

They seriously need to go out of business.

I live in a house that has 5 people right now.. and everyone uses internet.. something like this would not be good at all for us.

I'm stuck in a similar situation with AT&T U-Verse. My family just loves streaming movies and shows, and we pay for a couple extra blocks per month. We don't get cable/satellite TV though, so that saves a bit of money.

I've had countless issues with Comcast. I'm in Live Chat with Frontier right now. Anyone ever had Frontier?

Welcome to the future of internet in the US. Hope you are watching the court case Verizon vs. FCC. They want to be able to charge a premium to offer access to sites! Imagine, you want to check your gmail and log into steamgifts? They are in the Platinum tier, that will cost you an extra $15 a month. Thanks, your ISP
The end of the internet as we know it in the US

I've already written my Senators and Congresswoman. I haven't heard back from all of them but PA Sen. Pat Toomey(R) basically told me to **** off.

The funny part, is that we payed (via taxes) to lay fiber optic across the country with the ability to supply high speed to all at affordable rates...... in 1996. Instead, we payed $7billion+ and received call waiting, voicemail, and DSL-- features that only cost pennies to implement. Capitalism ftw

Mediacom is doing the same thing.. I just bought the higher tier for $15.00 more & now have Mediacom Ultra Plus
105Mbps Download / 10Mbps Upload
2 TB monthly usage allowance
Your not alone

Wowza, that's really crappy. I guess ISPs nowadays really want to kill netflix and others who follows the same business. /conspiracy

Good thing canadian ISPs are really "generous" or they have sucky bandwitdh metering system since I ALWAYS go over the cap limit but doesn't get any overhead fees for it

I used to work for comcast. the reason they are having problems managing their networks and increased bandwidth usage is because they have been using the same old worn out infrastructure for far too long. They will not upgrade their networks and are milking everything they can from them as long as possible to save money vs upgrading miles of old cable and tons of field equipment. they have nice no they have awesome equipment at the headends where the satellite feeds come into the major hubs and get distributed from there. the rest of the network all around cities and such are worn out. there are some areas that are better than others where the lines are new but they are newer developments that have been made in the last 5-10 years. its like looking at a map and having blocks of area that are good and other blocks that are bad and its all jumbled up. they are lucky it works at all in some areas.