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Some people (like me :( ) don't have a choice. Comcast is the ONLY thing here other then dial up. No other companies have run wires, and I'm a few blocks away from the farthest Verizon DSL reaches. With places like where I live, Comcast can do whatever they want and get away with it, as long as they stay above dial up.

comcast DOES suck. I agree 100%. There customer service is horrible, internet/phone/cable randomly cuts out and they have no idea whats going on, etc etc.

Thank God some friendly verizon sales-people knocked on the door the other day offering a deal giving MORE than comcast at 20$ per month less. Plus I get a digital cable box for every room.

Screw comcast! I can't wait for the verizon people to come install the new package!

Yeah, I'm an Aussie and have a 30gig cap, which is about as high as you can get here. :/

I feel for all the Aussies and New Zealanders when it comes to bullsh*t Internet pricing plans. We get totally screwed thanks to the lack of competition and pathetic telecommunications policies of our governments. Most of us down here could only dream about 250GB caps in our wildest dreams.

Yeah, I pay about 100 a month for 25 gig peak and 40 gig off peak. And this is for Australian "broadband" - 8 mBit. A friend of mine in Singapore gets - free - 100 mBit connection with no limits. Because their government recognises the necessity for decent internet to do business.

*lol* Aerei 30GB is nowhere near the most you can get for a cap in Australia. Even Bigpond have plans with bigger caps than that and only crazy people go with Bigpond.
If you really think 30GB is the biggest cap available I would strongly urge you to shop around. You might be surprised at how much you can get these days and I'd be surprised if you couldn't be saving some money for the same data allowance. Try Internode, if you haven't already.

120gigs with telenet in Belgium? You're paying 200euro/month?

The standard connection, costing around 40-50euro/month has a limit of 20gig/month.

For 60gig/month you pay around 70euro/month.

There are some smaller providers though that offer higher limits, or even no limits. But they're not really widely known.

Just lay down more cables? What about all the equipment to route the extra traffic? It takes up space and costs more money... cost that they would likely pass on to the customers anyway.

The internets not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

"Just lay down more cables? What about all the equipment to route the extra traffic? It takes up space and costs more money... cost that they would likely pass on to the customers anyway."

with that kind of argument then blizzard shouldnt ever have to put out content/bug fix patches, because it will cost time and money to do so because WoW 1.0 was fine just the way it was. at the same time they shouldnt ever have to put up new servers, and offer free transfers. both cost them money... they should just have 1 server, and put a 1 hour per day cap in place for their players.

now i'm not saying that bandwidth caps are a bad thing.. as long as they are reasonable. but what i am saying is that at the very most they should be temporary bandaids until broadband providers increase their bandwidth capacity to fulfill the needs of their customers. it should not be used as a reason to not have to increase capacity. but every sign being shown by broadband isp companies is saying thats exactly what they are trying to do. their industry wide motto seems to be "why increase capacity when you can just increasingly limit your customers access with no end in sight."

Its still good to know how much bandwith wow takes up by itself , the OP doesn't need to estimate how much pr0n you download on top of your WoW addiction.

I found this topic a quick informative bit of maths to help estimate how much of my 10gb per month cap I can download.
Congrats on your fail.