Originally Posted by Plaid13

Comcast is a lousy company always has been. But 250gig isnt bad for right now. but that being said dont think about now think about 5 years from now. they will most likely still have that 250gig cap and files have been growing at a fast pace over the last 15 years. In a few years it might be perfectly normal to burn through 300-500 gig of bandwidth in a month. People may want to stream dvd quality or better movies. say 2 movies a day for the family in the house for a month thats 15gig fairly easy. do that every day and there goes your limit.

I personally cant wait for everyone to have fiber optic or better connections at home. If everyone had a upload of 5-10mbps or more and 4-5x that for download the internet would be drasticly different then it is now. Anyone willing to leave a pc running 24/7 at home could have a website with enough bandwidth for all but the most popular websites. People wouldnt have to pay a fortune to rent out game servers monthly. Some people spend a few hundred a month just for a server like that. Hell even this forum im sure costs quite a bit to keep running thanks to the bandwidth it uses. But if we all had that kind of bandwidth to play around with file sharing would most likely get out of control.

Just as long as they dont start charging by the amount im ok with it. But i really want a fiber optic line without a limit and a hell of a upload rate. Really think ISPs need to start going in that direction instead of sticking with the old tech and trying to cap it. One day we will be able to go to google or something similar to it and search for a movie and instantly be able to stream the whole thing instantly with any movie at high quality. its only the tech of the isps slowing it down from happening.