Comcast delivers data usage meter in Portland, Oregon

The lucky residents of Portland, Oregon are the first to test out Comcast's just deployed and long-expected data usage meter for its customers. The interface is self-explanatory, but customers who have long been trying to guesstimate how close they are to their 250GB limit should be jumping for joy right about now. Comcast says the data is refreshed about every three hours, and that the median usage of its customers is somewhere around 2 - 4GB per month. No word on further rollout of the usage meter -- but we'll keep our eyes peeled for you.

[Thanks, Jerry]

[Speedracer98 Posted Dec 3rd 2009 1:48AM]

@(Unverified) also i found some funny stuff in their FAQ about excessive use.

Many excessive users consume more data than a business-class T1 line running at full capacity in a month.

WELL THEN STOP CALLING IT CABLE INTERNET

[Bman Posted Dec 3rd 2009 2:36AM]

@(Unverified)
T1 lines are like 1.5mbit, well at least at my work our T1 is slow as hell

I have docsis 3.0 cable modem which can hit 100mbit at night I can hit that bandwidth cap very quickly

[Speedracer98 Posted Dec 4th 2009 1:30PM]

@(Unverified) I've hit 29mbit max and that was the night I downloaded 100gb and uploaded the same amount the following day.... there is no way they could have the bar that low if I pay for 22mbit I better have the option to have that running 24/7 the entire month. I don't pay 80 a month to browse youtube...

[Eli superflush Posted Dec 3rd 2009 11:13AM]

This needs to happen everywhere. Especially with caps on data.

[kYing Posted Dec 4th 2009 12:45AM]

Ha... They called me last month and said "You're over the limit", "By how much" I ask? "Um, around 2000 gigabytes".

From what I heard if you "upgrade" to the business line you get unlimited, but not sure if they'll do that for residential? Shouldn't be any different.. I was happily doing ~600GB/month for a couple years with no warnings until I discovered Usenet.. and caught Comcast's attention.

[hexideciml Posted Dec 4th 2009 10:59AM]

@kYing

you can get business class no problem. jsut establish some dummy Corp .inc and they will give you a business class connection

[hexideciml Posted Dec 4th 2009 11:00AM]

@kYing

business class will also unblock port 80...most residential connections have it blocked

[hexideciml Posted Dec 4th 2009 10:54AM]

i would jsut like to remind everyone that over seas, such as in south korea a 100/100 connection is only $20 a month with no caps....comcast=epic fail

[MRCUR Posted Dec 4th 2009 3:45PM]

Going by that logic, every US (and Canadian) ISP is #FAIL.

[hexideciml Posted Dec 4th 2009 5:53PM]

@MRCUR

that's because they are...the U.S. is very much so behind in terms of infrastructure when it comes to the backbone. The country that helped start the internet has some of the worst connection speeds at horrible prices

[keithwwalker Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:59AM]

Bandwidth limits cut both ways. If you're short, download some more, just so you can 'stick it to the man'...