Re: [PLUG] ISP's (OT)

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On 5/20/2011 11:58 AM, Douglas Muth wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Julien Mills <julienfmills@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm investigating a new ISP for my small to medium sized business.
>> At the moment we have SDSL 1.5 Mb for about $269/month from Earthlink.
>>
>> I can get 50 down/10 up from Comcast (cable) for about $200/month.
> 
> Comcast residential has a bandwidth cap of 250 GB/month.  Not sure
> about Comcast business.

One of my guys at worked showed us his Comcast bandwidth history. Had
400G, 510G, 425G over the course of the 3 months he was showing me. And
he had no warnings, no shutoffs, no communication or interruption at all.

So that 250G cap may not be as strict as you might think ...

> I guarantee if you use 50/10 for an entire month on the Comcast
> connection, you're going to get a nasty phonecall/email from them. :-)
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