Comcast is shutting down service to patrons whose bandwidth use reaches a high but undefined level according to this Boston Globe Article. They’re refusing to let customers know what the cutoff point is, because they are claiming that the number changes based on network capacity. One sections I thought interesting:
Feddeman declined to say where Comcast draws the line on too much Internet usage, instead saying the amount of data that could trigger a warning call would be roughly the equivalent of 13 million e-mail messages or 256,000 photos a month. Although those files vary in size, a typical photo file size is 1 to 2 megabytes, meaning that excessive users are downloading hundreds of gigabytes per month.
Interesting that they are using an “e-mail” as a benchmark. Taking a look a this wikipedia article on streaming media it appears that a more common measurement is not an “email” but in mebibytes, gibibytes, and tebibytes.
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