bandwidth limit.
Just got this mail from comcast..
On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into
effect at that time.
In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage
of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that
defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy
because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a
disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may
degrade the online experience of other customers.
250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very
likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that
amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater
than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to
3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage
in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following:
* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).
I guess I won't be syncing rawhide packages on a daily basis any more.
Or doing complete package tree checkouts.
I wonder what other bandwidth excesses I take for granted I'll have to cut back on.
Syndicated 2008-09-13 21:22:35 from Dave Jones recollection of stuff that happened.
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