Internet Prices Going Through The Roof?

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Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

I would switch to the company that charged a flat fee and not a usage rate. That's ridiculous. It's insane that they would try to go back to the days of AOL where people would charge by the hour. I hope this isn't true because Comcast internet is amazing. Damn economy has people going crazy trying to find ways to make money.

My friend who works at Comcast told me the following:
They suspend your internet connection if you exceed the download capacity. True story, I have residential customers switching to business services for unlimited downloads.

You know, I could potentially see people breaking the 250 GB threshold if they are renting High Definition streaming movies every night or at least quite often a month. I mean, suppose your HD quality movie is around 4-8 GB per download stream. And you're streaming at least four movies a week. That alone is around 128 GB per month, but that isn't counting the other stuff you may be doing on the internet (downloading movies, music, etc...)

Maybe what needs to happen is for places like Netflix to develop a compression of movies that will keep the file size very low, but still present HD quality? That would curve the bandwidth issues, maybe???