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1. Comment - Comcast to offer bandwidth consumption monitor

   (Dec 6, 2008 - 12:44 PM)

   yes I completely agree. As I bet they'll have usage from every bit that hits your router. But your router doesn't count as bandwidth usage because it drops those packets at the firewall.

2. Comment - Comcast to offer bandwidth consumption monitor

   (Dec 6, 2008 - 12:43 PM)

   Nope the backbones are not charging more. Bandwidth cost in data centers has continuously dropped for years and still is. It simple greed for greater profits and to stifle the cannibalization of the other services they offer.
   
   Oh and I doubt they'll have caps on T1's they already cost so much 400-900 a month.
   Oh and the max you could possibly use on a T1 is 972GB and that is keeping the download and upload maxed 24/7 for 30 days. 300GB seems unreasonable even though most companies with T1's don't use even close to 300GB.

3. Comment - Comcast to offer bandwidth consumption monitor

   (Dec 6, 2008 - 12:35 PM)

   You really fail to see the point. These packages are advertised as UNLIMITED. Do you know what that means? No cap. No limits what so ever. They already cap you on speed. So you are already limited to the amount you can use by keeping your connection maxed 24/7.
   
   If they don't have the bandwidth in their back hall networks to the backbones then they need to spend the money we are paying them to upgrade. This lack of bandwidth on their networks is really a made up marketing BS so they can add these cap to stifle the competition that is popping up from Online services. It is simple anti-competitive practices.

4. Comment - Comcast to offer bandwidth consumption monitor

   (Dec 6, 2008 - 12:24 PM)

   At first you seemed informed but really you know very little about the world.
   
   For example lets look at Sweden a country roughly the size of California. They are on average 10Mb/s - 100Mb/s connections. They have the population of roughly LA. They are just as spread out as many parts of the United States. Oh and guess what Sweden has much higher income tax then we have. Around 40-46%. Your point is really moot at this point. LA and just about all of our major cities have population densities higher than that country. Why don't we have faster speeds in our cities?
   
   Also our government has given lots of money to the telcos to get service to areas that have low population densities.
   
   There is absolutely no reason why we have slower speeds in our major cities and highly populated areas. It is all about simply improving profits to keep the shareholders happy.
   
   Oh and California or New York are both states that compare very well with European countries... We still have garbage for our connections.

5. Comment - Google admits that its iPhone voice search breaks Apple's rules

   (Nov 27, 2008 - 12:43 PM)

   Isn't one of Google's execs on apples board? I think that might have something to do with it.